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Delivering the Goods: An Interview with Best Buy and EIX Founder Dick Schulze

Got up in the morning at 5:30, 6 o'clock developed a strategy, which I learned after the first year, Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: James C Wetherbe

Hyannis Country Garden is a Family Business With Deep Roots

This feature and video are part of  America’s Entrepreneurs: Making it Work , a Rewire initiative made possible by the  Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation  and  EIX, the Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Alauna Yust

Investing in Capabilities and Reputation Pays Off for VC Firms

New venture capital firms must make a variety of strategic decisions about market positioning and relationships with the entrepreneurs in their portfolio. One choice VC firms must make is whether to Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: David Hsu

Be Part of An Important Survey About Coping With Covid-19

While the pandemic has created economic turmoil, family and business disruption, and challenges that could last a lifetime, it also presents a unique opportunity to learn and improve family business Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Talk With Real Customers Before the Launch

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 Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Dan Holland

How Can We Define 'Innovation'?

innovation in the broader sense that they are developing sets of routines that represent a new way of operating Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Daniel Forbes

How Do You Know When It's Safe to Quit Your Day Job?

On November 29, Rewire hosted a Facebook Live Q&A entitled, "How Do You Know When It's Safe to Quit Your Day Job?," led by David Deeds, Schulze Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: David Deeds

Five Things Family Businesses are Reckoning With Now

  Family businesses everywhere are responding to Covid-19 in profound ways, balancing the need to preserve cherished family traditions and social capital against the mandate to control costs at Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Mat Hughes and Alfredo De Massis

Adjuncts: An Overlooked Source of Prestige

EDITOR’S NOTE: Steve Blank, who has founded or co-founded eight startups, is best known as the Father of Modern Entrepreneurship and is credited with launching the Lean Startup movement, which for Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Steve Blank

The Best Family Business Boards Embrace Candor and 'Necessary Endings'

Second of a two-part series From our studies evaluating the effectiveness of boards at family firms, we’ve seen first-hand how strong boards can help family businesses be more successful. In Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Claudia Binz Astrachan , Joseph Astrachan and Hermut Kormann