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Overfunded Crowdfunded Projects: An Even Bigger Headache?

What’s better than fully funding your crowdfunding campaign? You might think it's raising far more than you requested. Turns out, having too much of a good thing creates unexpected, complex Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Eden Blair and Tanya Marcum

Investing in Capabilities and Reputation Pays Off for VC Firms

New venture capital firms must make a variety of strategic decisions about market positioning and relationships with the entrepreneurs in their portfolio. One choice VC firms must make is whether to Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: David Hsu

How Strategy and Industry Should Shape Your Choice of Co-Founders

Entrepreneurs who want to turn a great idea into a thriving business inevitably need a team that can make it happen. What increases their odds of a successful venture: hiring mainly technical experts Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Charles Eesley , Edward Roberts and David Hsu

Why Family Firms Are Like Jenga

With ties that bind emotionally and legally, family businesses are different from non-family firms:  sensitive, easily disrupted and conflict-prone. But in this interview with FamilyBusiness.org Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

'Home Field Advantage' Works in Business as well as Baseball

Entrepreneurs with great ideas often feel they must pull up stakes and move to a region that is known as a hub for their specific industry.  But research that we published in 2012 suggests that Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Olav Sorenson and Michael S. Dahl

The 'Fredo Factor:' How Deadbeats and Troublemakers Hurt Family Businesses

The Corleones of "Godfather" fame are an extreme example of a “family business.” But like many family businesses, they have a family member who is a serious hindrance to their business, is less Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

How Crisis Spurred Healthcare Innovation in Cuba

Health care is a hotly debated topic in the US -- how it's delivered, whether the government or employers pay for it, how research on promising new drugs is funded and other issues. "Innovation" is Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Author: Eapen Chacko

Science Parks Connect Entrepreneurs and Public Resources in Emerging Economies

Unlike the US, most developing countries lack the regulatory and financial infrastructure needed to help promote entrepreneurship. Private resources such as venture capitalists, angel investors and Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Charles Eesley

How New Businesses Can Improve Their Chances of Survival

New and unproven? Fake it and you are more likely to make it. More than five decades ago, celebrated sociologist Arthur Stinchcombe coined the term “liability of newness” to depict the Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Howard E. Aldrich

Improved Bike Helmet Takes Top Prize at e-Fest

Teams of student entrepreneurs gathered at the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship in Minneapolis April 6-8, 2017 for e-Fest, which gave them the chance to compete for more than $250,000 in prizes for Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: James Beal