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The year-end is traditionally a time for setting new goals for the coming year, but if we've learned anything from 2020 and 2021 it's that our best-laid plans must be flexible. The continued Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Daniel Forbes and Jon Eckhardt
Learn From Leaders: Developing an Idea Over the past several years EIX editors have interviewed famous and noteworthy founders and CEOs of groundbreaking companies, and published the videos of those discussions on our site. We re-edited Read More...
Category: Interviews
Authors: Jon Eckhardt and Daniel Forbes
A rise in “no-code” tools is letting non-technical founders create technical products without the need to hire a developer. Building an app is hard, right? That’s the usual consensus, Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Max Mirho
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
You don’t need to be an engineer or coder to innovate. Tucker Marion explains how people with limited resources can develop, fund and launch new ideas. Many innovations have started with people who Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
New products often fail because they solve weak problems, add too many features or skip customer validation. Stephen Golden explains five common mistakes. Sometimes an innovator or new company has an Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Interviewee: Stephen L. Golden
Sponsored by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation, the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas, and EIX.org, a non-profit online platform for entrepreneurship Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: James Beal
I grew up in Ireland, and my family hails from Ballyhaunis in County Mayo. Dad was a small business owner, who used his trusty cab to provide service to our neighbors. Dad provided my first exposure Read More...
Category: Case Studies
Authors: Kieran Folliard and Eapen Chacko
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
Why Inventors Should Be Willing to Give Up Some Control Giving up ownership or profits can be worthwhile if a strong partner helps manufacture, market and distribute an invention to a much larger audience. In this article Dean Kamen, one of the world's Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Dean Kamen