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Can You Afford to Experiment?

Lean Startup & Minimum Viable Products have replaced planning and are helping entrepreneurs find product-market fit more quickly. But these tools also have costs and risks. Historically, Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Andrea Contigiani

Food for Thought: Starting a Side Hustle While Working Full-time

  About 44 million Americans, including many women, are exploring "sidepreneurship," or starting their own businesses while working full time somewhere else.  Done right, it can bring the Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

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

Angel Investors versus Venture Capitalists

  Entrepreneurs have several options when they need capital to get a venture going: family and friends, angel investors and venture capitalists.  Growthfire LLC's Eapen Chacko, an advisor Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Eapen Chacko

Should I Participate in a Business Accelerator?

Business accelerators are a relatively new source of potential support for startup companies. These organizations provide financing and services to entrepreneurs who are forming or are operating Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Jon Eckhardt

Entrepreneurship and Thought Leadership's Shotgun Marriage

As digital technologies continue to fuel the rise of new companies around the world, it's easy to presume that raising money is the startups’ biggest challenge. But a larger and often-overlooked Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Robert Buday

Women Entrepreneurs Have Limited Chances to Lead Their New Businesses

Women who start new businesses with men have limited opportunities to move into leadership roles, according to a study we conducted at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and when they Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Howard E. Aldrich

Delivering the Goods: An Interview with Best Buy and EIX Founder Dick Schulze

Dick Schulze, the founder of Best Buy and EIX, shares his experiences as an entrepreneur and innovator, including how he tripled his income from his boyhood paper route; quit a retail job when his Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: James C Wetherbe