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From Riches to Rags and Back: One Entrepreneur's Heartfelt Journey
Many entrepreneurs dream of the day when their hard work pays off with riches and financial security.  For Grant Muller, that day came before he was age 30, when the startup he was involved in Read More...
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Startups Need Both Profound Beliefs and Customer Input
  In the early stages of a startup your hypotheses about all the parts of your business model are your profound beliefs. Think of profound beliefs as “strong opinions loosely held.” You Read More...
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Student Innovators: Get Ready Now for e-Fest 2024
  If you are an undergraduate with a great business idea, we've got exciting news for you. We are beginning the countdown to e-Fest 2024, April 18-20, with the e-Fest Lightbulb Lunch & Learn Read More...
Category: Commentary
How to Find a Mentor After 50
Editor’s note: This article is part of Lessons from Leaders, a Next Avenue initiative made possible by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and EIX . For years, I worked as a production account Read More...
Helicopter Parenting Can Hurt Future Family Business Leaders
The founders of many longstanding family businesses likely had parents who insisted on responsibility and let them learn from their mistakes. This is not so today -- the era of helicopter parenting, Read More...
How Scientist-Inventors Move Ideas From Lab to Marketplace
Many important innovations grow out of the research done at colleges and universities. For example, technologies related to healthcare or the natural environment are often rooted in academic Read More...
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Johns Hopkins Team is 2023 e-Fest Grand Champion
MINNEAPOLIS -- e-Fest 2023 came to an exciting conclusion on Saturday afternoon, April 29, with an amazing Championship Round judged by top business and entrepreneurship professionals: Ann Winblad, Read More...
AI Won't Replace Innovators and Fresh Thinking
  How can AI and ChatGPT be useful in a world hungry for solutions to business problems? Will it ever replace people who come up with big ideas -- the entrepreneurs, researchers or scholars? Two Read More...
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FamilyBusiness.org's Editorial Guidelines for the Use of Generative AI Tools
The emergence of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Bard, and other platforms is creating new opportunities for developing written text, visual art, and other related artifacts in the publishing Read More...
EIX's Editorial Guidelines for the Use of Generative AI Tools
The emergence of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Bard, and other platforms is creating new opportunities for developing written text, visual art, and other related artifacts in the publishing Read More...
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