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Turn Your Idea Into an Innovation

  Many innovations have started with people who were not engineers, scientists or coders, and had no idea how to turn their great idea into a marketable product or service. Fortunately, today's Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Starting a Business for Under $5,000

This article is part of America’s Entrepreneurs , a Next Avenue initiative made possible by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and EIX, the Entrepreneur and Innovation Exchange . Part of Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Leslie Hunter-Gadsden

The 5 Mortal Sins of New Product Development

  Sometimes an innovator or new company has an idea for a product that seems to have blockbuster potential -- only to fizzle and flop.  Why does this happen? In this interview with EIX's Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

'Monopoly' Game vs. the Real World: A Teaching Tool

While it’s a bad blueprint for running an actual enterprise, Monopoly can help entrepreneurship teachers, students and even current business owners improve their understanding of entrepreneurship. Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Stevie Arroyo and James Hoffman

Rural Entrepreneurs are Finding Success

This article is part of America’s Entrepreneurs , a Next Avenue initiative made possible by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and EIX, Entrepreneur and Innovation Exchange . Part of the Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Chris Farrell

'Imposter Syndrome' Holds Back Entrepreneurial Women

The number of businesses run by women continues to grow – by 59% between 1997 and 2013 – and women now run between a quarter and a third of all private businesses worldwide. Yet their businesses Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston , Jamie Ladge and Keimei Sugiyama

Today's Entrepreneurs Can Inform Tomorrow's Research

Consider that only as far back as the year 2000, starting a business meant writing a business plan, buying facilities or equipment, and courting traditional investors such as banks or venture capital Read More...

Category: Practice Insight

Authors: Gary Dushnitsky and Sharon Matusik

Six Takeaways for Startups from a Mideast Battlefield

EDITOR’S NOTE: Pete Newell is a nationally recognized innovation expert whose work is transforming how the government and other large organizations compete and drive growth. He is the CEO of BMNT, Read More...

Category: Practice Insight

Author: Peter Newell

Remembering Clay Christensen

Clay Christensen, the Harvard Business School educator who passed away in January 2020, changed the way people around the world think of innovation. Through widely-read books, such as "The Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Daniel Forbes

Managing Financial Risk When Starting a Business in Retirement

This article is part of America’s Entrepreneurs , a Next Avenue initiative made possible by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and EIX, Entrepreneur and Innovation Exchange . Part of the Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Jessica Thiefels