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Sponsored by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation, the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas, and EIX.org, a non-profit online platform for entrepreneurship Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: James Beal
Joe Keeley, founder of College Nannies and Tutors (CNT), hung up the phone. Another insurance company had declined to underwrite the coverage he needed for CNT to expand; he had contacted over forty Read More...
Category: Case Studies
Author: Mark Spriggs
The surge of enthusiasm for entrepreneurship bellows from the halls of government, the offices of corporations, the hashtags of social media, and the classrooms of academia. As a society, here in the Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Donna De Carolis
Design Thinking helps entrepreneurs understand their potential customers' real wants and needs – at a deep, often emotional level. Entrepreneurs often start their business with a "good" idea they Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Author: Brian Janz
The TPQL learning concept can work for classrooms and programs beyond entrepreneurship It's a simple and engaging way to help students learn complex topics. Many of us remember that one infamous Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Author: Lars Oddsson
An Illinois-based high school has several programs focused on social entrepreneurship, Lean Startup, and other topics. “Sharks? Change the channel! I don’t do sharks,” my 12-year-old self told Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Author: Marisa Patel-O'Connor
I grew up in Ireland, and my family hails from Ballyhaunis in County Mayo. Dad was a small business owner, who used his trusty cab to provide service to our neighbors. Dad provided my first exposure Read More...
Category: Case Studies
Authors: Kieran Folliard and Eapen Chacko
Startups succeed or fail for a variety of reasons: no market need, not the right team, timing, running out of cash, premature scaling and more. It is important for students to understand this so that Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Author: Chuck Sacco
Perhaps no other family is more synonymous with both capitalism and philanthropy than the Rockefellers. The family ’s fortunes in oil have made it possible for them to invest in initiatives that Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Students often have a hard time understanding the difference between an invention and an innovation and, likewise, the difference between incremental and disruptive innovation. I developed this Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Author: Kathleen Allen