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Innovation Challenge Engages Students at a Commuter School

Farmingdale State College took its cue from EIX's e-Fest to introduce its own Innovation Challenge, which taught non-business students to collaborate and innovate. Entrepreneurship and innovation Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Jing Betty Feng

Educating the Unintended Entrepreneur

The ranks of "unintended entrepreneurs" are growing, but neither the public nor the universities are fully aware of this yet. These unintended entrepreneurs will come from both the existing workforce Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Roy Carriker

This badge is awarded for articles reaching 250000 views. Class Explores Legal Aspects of Business Entities

The Law and the Entrepreneur course at Bradley University explores the legal aspects of the different options for structuring a business -- LLCs, sole proprietor, partnerships and others. In 2011, I Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Tanya Marcum

Schulze Entrepreneurship Challenge Highlights e-Fest® 2018

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

College Nannies & Tutors: Franchise Business Models

Joe Keeley, founder of College Nannies and Tutors (CNT), hung up the phone. Another insurance company had declined to underwrite the coverage he needed for CNT to expand; he had contacted over forty Read More...

Category: Case Studies

Author: Mark Spriggs

Small Acts of Entrepreneurship Transcend the Business Realm

The surge of enthusiasm for entrepreneurship bellows from the halls of government, the offices of corporations, the hashtags of social media, and the classrooms of academia. As a society, here in the Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Donna De Carolis

Design Thinking Makes Great Ideas Viable

Design Thinking helps entrepreneurs understand their potential customers' real wants and needs – at a deep, often emotional level. Entrepreneurs often start their business with a "good" idea they Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Brian Janz

'Tommie Tank' Helps Students Learn to Finance Ventures

The course improved students’ confidence, helped build a student-alumni community, and enhanced students’ connection to what raising money actually means. Two-and-a-half years ago, we set out to Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Jay Ebben

Entrepreneurship Education Must Start Before College

While technology continues to replace human endeavor, society hasn’t yet discerned how to address its impact on future workforce economic well-being. Until recently the impact has primarily been on Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Roy Carriker

Teaching Students to Design and Commercialize New Products: A Journey in its Third Decade

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