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How Strategy and Industry Should Shape Your Choice of Co-Founders

Entrepreneurs who want to turn a great idea into a thriving business inevitably need a team that can make it happen. What increases their odds of a successful venture: hiring mainly technical experts Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Charles Eesley , Edward Roberts and David Hsu

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

Does it Matter if an Entrepreneur is Coachable?

Many venture capital firms, business accelerators and other investors see the strength of the founding team as an important predictor of whether their investment will pay off.  No wonder that Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Kevin Bryan and András Tilcsik

Startups Can Attract Employees and Financing Through 'Borrowed' Reputations

New firms must attract two kinds of resources: talent and money. A recent study that I conducted with Tom Vanacker of Ghent University explored how a new firm's affiliations with venture capital Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Daniel Forbes

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 Read More...

Category: Interviews

Authors: Jon Eckhardt and Daniel Forbes

Who Will Be Your Competitors in the Future?

Most entrepreneurs know the competitors they face today; namely, other businesses that compete for the same customers in the same or similar markets or industries. However, many dissimilar companies Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Stephen Downing , Jin-Su Kang and Gideon Markman

A Crash Course in Hiring Your Startup's First Employees

It is always exciting when a startup grows big enough to hire beyond the founding team. It can also be frightening for the founders, because being an employer means new responsibilities: Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Gavin Williamson

Cashless Businesses Make Change

Companies that went cashless in the past few years, whether to increase the speed of transactions or reduce the theft of cash, are experiencing some whiplash. Take salad chain Sweetgreen, which Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Hanna Horvath

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Beyond Succession: Family Firms Need a Legacy Plan Too

the-importance-of-family-values-in-the-family-businesses/#34a6c23f1023 Rogoff, Edward G. and Zachary, Ramona K., The Evolving Family/Entrepreneurship Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Aquesha Daniels, J.D.