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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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Interviewee: Doug Baumoel
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 they Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Olav Sorenson and Michael S. Dahl
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