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I Banned Cell Phones From My Classroom: What Happened Next
UNC-Chapel Hill Professor Howard Aldrich said focus and grades improved once cell phones were out of the picture…and students engaged with one another more. In this interview with Kimberly Eddleston of EIX and FamilyBusiness.org, he shares tips for other educators who want to make the leap.
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Making the Leap to Entrepreneurship - From Advertising Exec to Publishing Company Founder
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Many entrepreneurs don’t start out that way: they may spend years working for others in salaried jobs, where the paycheck may be steady but the potential for creativity and independence is limited. In this new series for EIX, we will feature people who started off as employees and made the leap to being business owners. Our first episode focuses on Rohit Bhargava, founder of Non-Obvious Company...
Learn From Leaders: Developing an Idea
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How you can finally get your big idea off the ground and make your dreams come true.
Serial Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Noah Alper of Noah's Bagels
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Noah Alper is best known for the business that bears his name: the West Coast chain Noah's Bagels. But he has started and exited several other businesses, including Bread & Circus, an East Coast natural foods store that eventually became part of Whole Foods; a housewares venture; a kosher Italian restaurant and a firm that attempted to sell food and gifts from the Holy Land to born-again Christ...
Exploring New Opportunities for Meaningful Entrepreneurship Research
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After years of being focused on theory, entrepreneurship research is broadening its scope to helping entrepreneurs solve day-to-day problems. In this video, Dr. Carla Pavone reflects on the evolving relationship between research and practice, on the institutions that are in the vanguard of this trend, and the need for research to be better designed to be meaningful to practitioners. Dr. Pavone ...
Small Bites - Why Street Smarts in Entrepreneurship Beat Book Smarts
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Running a successful startup goes beyond book smarts. In fact, a 2020 study on book smarts versus street smarts in entrepreneurship shows us the clear winner. While entrepreneurial cognitive intelligence matters for seizing opportunities, being a people person improves your chances for success more. We’re going to dive into how and why you should focus on street smarts in entrepreneurship. Want...
Why You Should Court Failure
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From LensCrafters employee to successful entrepreneur and top selling author of "Go for No!," Andrea Waltz has sold over 300,000 copies of her book and has been in the top 20 of Amazon’s “Sales” books for the last five years. In this candid interview, she talks about why you should never settle for yes.
Use Digital Marketing to Build Demand for Your Product
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If you’re like many entrepreneurs, you've got a product or service and are looking to increase the number of people you sell it to. Finding and reaching the people who have the problem that your product solves is the hard part - that’s marketing. In this article and the video that goes with it, I’ll discuss some marketing tools that are especially useful to early-stage, small-scale businesses, ...
The Power of 'Wow' to Attract New Customers
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Years ago, millions of consumers discovered something that they never knew they needed: TIVO, which ultimately would change the way they watched television and disrupt an entire industry. That discovery shows how a truly unique product can become a must-have for consumers who never envisioned it before. But do inventors conjure up these products, or are they inspired by asking the market what i...
Angel Investors Vs. Venture Capitalists
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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 to private equity firms, discusses how these options are different, and where they can overlap.
Are Business Plans Really Necessary?
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For a new venture, a business plan is an essential part of attracting investment and ensuring success. Or is it? In this spirited discussion, reminiscent of "Point/Counterpoint," Eapen Chacko of GrowthFire, LLC, and Brent Goldfarb of the University of Maryland argue both sides but part friends.
Entrepreneurs Can Benefit Society
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Entrepreneurs play a huge role in society by bringing underappreciated products to market products that can help people but that big companies are too busy or disinterested to develop. In the process of developing these hidden gems, entrepreneurs build great companies, create jobs and carve out careers that are professionally and personally rewarding. Daniel Forbes of the University of Minnesot...
Talk With Real Customers Before the Launch
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As online crowdsourcing has shown, people will support a proposed business or cause that moves them. For entrepreneurs, the ability to test a proposed product or service's uniqueness and appeal has never been better. EIX panelists Heidi Neck of Babson College, Kim Eddleston of Northeastern University and Dan Holland of Utah State University discuss how entrepreneurs can test the waters before t...
Empathy is Central to Entrepreneurship
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Successful entrepreneurs not only identify problems that must be solved, but also empathize with the people affected by them. In this discussion, Babson College's Yasu Yamakawa and Brett Smith of Miami University of Ohio propose that empathy is a quality that can be acquired only by going out into the world without preconceived notions, and being willing to "do and learn" rather than "learn and...
Starting Over: The Midlife Entrepreneur
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Midlife is traditionally a time for traveling or playing more golf but not for mid-lifers who decide to leave the security of a steady paycheck for the uncertain life of an entrepreneur. Just ask former police officer Steven Mould, who started his high-end professional-quality knife company, Flint & Flame, when he was close to age 50. In this interview with EIX's Kim Eddleston, Mould and his pa...
Science Parks Connect Entrepreneurs and Public Resources in Emerging Economies
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Science Parks Connect Entrepreneurs and Public Resources in Emerging Economies
HydroPhos Solutions: Past e-Fest Winners Continue Innovating
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HydroPhos Solutions: Past e-Fest Winners Continue Innovating
ECGO Team: Past e-Fest Winners Continue Innovating
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ECGO Team: Past e-Fest Winners Continue Innovating
Park & Diamond: eFest 2017 Winner Ready to Launch
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Park & Diamond: eFest 2017 Winner Ready to Launch
The Odyssey of Isomark's Life-Saving Technology
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The Odyssey of Isomark's Life-Saving Technology
ABODO's Slocum Talks About his Apartment-Hunting Breakthrough
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ABODO's Slocum Talks About his Apartment-Hunting Breakthrough
EIX Interviews Garrey Carruthers: Governor, Entrepreneur, University President
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EIX Interviews Garrey Carruthers: Governor, Entrepreneur, University President
Ann Winblad, Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist
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Ann Winblad, Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist
Vegan Venture: Mission Drives Success for Restaurant Chain
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Vegan Venture: Mission Drives Success for Restaurant Chain
Do Women Entrepreneurs Need a Dash of Psychopathy?
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Do Women Entrepreneurs Need a Dash of Psychopathy?
Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship and Women in Business
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Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship and Women in Business
Helping Women Entrepreneurs Succeed: What's Needed Now
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Helping Women Entrepreneurs Succeed: What's Needed Now
#MeToo is Changing the Game for Startups
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#MeToo is Changing the Game for Startups
More Women Should Study Entrepreneurship
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More Women Should Study Entrepreneurship
No-Code Tools Make Digital Prototyping Easy
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No-Code Tools Make Digital Prototyping Easy