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Classroom Exercise: Creating a Venture in 10 Days

The Innovation Project exercise enables students (within 10 days) to experience every step of the venture creation process (searching, screening, planning, financing, setup, startup, ongoing Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Ron Mitchell

The Theory of Disruptive Innovation: Science or Allegory?

“Every age has a theory about the past and the present, of what was and what is, a notion of time: a theory of history…Our era has disruption… [1] ” – Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Author: Andrew King

Will Music Schools Embrace Multimedia Software?

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it." - W.C. Fields In the fall of 2010, Dejen Tesfiagiorgis sat in his tiny incubator office on Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: Alec Johnson and Jay Ebben

Research Insight: Proven Entrepreneurs May Benefit Less from Partnering With Experienced VCs

In 2000, the New England Patriots football team chose University of Michigan quarterback Tom Brady in the sixth round of the draft. He became the starting quarterback barely two years later, and on Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Author: Jon Eckhardt

Social Entrepreneurship Exercise: Developing your “Theory of Change”

The Theory of Change is a tool that is widely used among social entrepreneurship (SE) practitioners to map out the steps that will lead them to have the intended positive change on society. The Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Sophie Bacq

Entrepreneurship Education Must Start Before College

While technology continues to replace human endeavor, society hasn’t yet discerned how to address its impact on future workforce economic well-being. Until recently the impact has primarily been on Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Roy Carriker

The Sustainable Entrepreneur: Balancing People, Planet and Profit

Entrepreneurs and business leaders are blessed and cursed with thinking about their businesses 24 hours a day. It becomes their life focus. What is it that consumes them? Bottom line? Employee Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Dave Feldman

Teaching Students to Design and Commercialize New Products: A Journey in its Third Decade

Many schools want entrepreneurship classes that are “cross-campus” and “experiential.” This class at University of Minnesota does both. Entrepreneurship education takes a variety of forms. In Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Daniel Forbes

LinkedIn CoFounder: Start with a Team, Not an Idea

EDITOR’S NOTE: This essay by one of five co-founders of LinkedIn, the 500 million-member social network for professionals, is part of our EIX feature entitled “The Entrepreneur Essay.” Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Konstantin Guericke

The Perils of Seeking Financing at the Wrong Time

The timing of external funding for a new venture can have dramatic impact on its survival and success. In the case of equity financing (i.e., preferred and/or common stock), seeking funding before Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Phil Greenwood