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A Tech Entrepreneur's Journey: Hard Work and Smart Risks

David Bateman, Co-CEO and Founder of SitePro, Inc., has learned the art of launching a great product through hard work and smart risks. His $60 million company makes technology solutions that help Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: James C Wetherbe

Getting All Family Business Members on the Same Page with Tech

Article originally published at NextAvenue.org , which has partnered with EIX.org on a series of high quality features about family business and entrepreneurship. Part of the America’s Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Jessica Thiefels

Bankers or Brokers? For Favored Firms, VCs Invest More than Dollars

By Emily Pahnke, Ji Youn (Rose) Kim, Michael Howard and Warren Boeker Venture capitalists bankroll invention, but is signing checks the only contribution they make to the world of innovation? Our Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Emily Pahnke

How Entrepreneurial Legends, Heroes and Meccas are Born

Entrepreneurship history is filled with events, places and people who are now legendary or even sacred. In the beginning of the 20th century, New York’s Lower East Side became a place where Jewish Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Howard E. Aldrich and Stephen Lippmann

A Father/Son Sitdown: Howard and Steven Aldrich

More than 20 years ago, Steven Aldrich showed the Mosaic Browser to his father, noted entrepreneurship professor Howard Aldrich.  It was a time when Steven was imagining a future in helping Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Howard E. Aldrich

'Femgineer' Aims to Empower Technology Specialists

  Poornima Vijayashanker is the founder of Femgineer, an educational business that empowers forward-thinking techies of all backgrounds and promotes inclusiveness in the high-tech industry. She Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

The Changing World of Entrepreneurial Learning Resources

Steve Jobs died in October 2011. Since then, much has been written about Jobs’ life and the legacies he left – through his company, Apple, and through his impact on technology more generally Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Daniel Forbes

Data Analytics Help Entrepreneurs Decide Where to Boldly Go

Just as space programs must carefully think out which parts of the cosmos can and should be explored, so must entrepreneurs navigate a seemingly endless universe of possibilities for their intellect, Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: James C Wetherbe and Zhu (Drew) Zhang

Hackers, Makers, and Crowd Funding: Lowering the Barriers to Entrepreneurship

Not too long ago, hackers were engineers with a propensity for mischief and anarchy; makers tinkered with hand tools in their basements; and crowdfunding required nothing more than a guitar, a hat Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Howard E. Aldrich

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