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Startup Founders: You Can't Get Back Family Time

Steve Blank has had a celebrated career as serial entrepreneur and founder of the Lean Startup movement, which for the first time gave startups a methodology for success. Best known as the Father of Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Catherine Buday and Steve Blank

Why You Should Have a Lawyer on Your Startup Board

In 1979, Personal Software began selling Visicalc, the first personal computer spreadsheet. Visicalc was so compelling, people bought Apple II computers just so they could use Visicalc, making it the Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Dustin Slade

Hiring an Outside Expert for Your Family Business

Article originally published at NextAvenue.org , which has partnered with EIX.org on a series of high quality features about family business and entrepreneurship. Part of the America’s Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Kerry Hannon

The 3 Skills That Build Confidence in Entrepreneurial Women

Nearly two centuries ago, Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, of the now-venerable Veuve Clicquot champagne company, found herself widowed at age 27 with a small child. With little experience and lots Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Dr. Susan Laverick and Elizabeth Bagnall

STEM Students and Faculty Can Gain Entrepreneurial Thinking and Skills

The University of Minnesota I-Corps program has helped STEM students, staff, and faculty to build an entrepreneurial mindset. The University of Minnesota MIN-Corps is one of about 100 sites of the Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Carla Pavone

5 Benefits of Having a Multigenerational Family Business

Article originally published at NextAvenue.org , which has partnered with EIX.org on a series of high quality features about family business and entrepreneurship. Part of the America’s Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Jessica Thiefels

From Entitlement to Contribution

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. -- Robert Bly A client told me once that all a family member needed to come Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Robert Caldwell

Entrepreneurship's Moral Minefields: A Conversation with Steve Blank

As an entrepreneur, Steve Blank was part of or co-founded eight startups. Today, he’s best known as the Father of Modern Entrepreneurship and credited with launching the Lean Startup movement, Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Catherine Buday

Bankers or Brokers? For Favored Firms, VCs Invest More than Dollars

By Emily Pahnke, Ji Youn (Rose) Kim, Michael Howard and Warren Boeker Venture capitalists bankroll invention, but is signing checks the only contribution they make to the world of innovation? Our Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Emily Pahnke

Helping Women Entrepreneurs Succeed: What's Needed Now

  The number of successful women entrepreneurs is growing, but much more needs to be done to support them now and prepare future generations of women leaders. In this second part of a two-part Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston