The most infuriating moment of the first presidential debate between Mitt Romney and President Obama hasn’t gotten the …
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Questions That Could Inspire Innovation
The Next Big Thing could be just a thought away, but arriving at that insight requires you to see your business in a new light.
New Public-Private Partnerships: The President’s Stealth Plan To Create Jobs?
As casual reading, the Presidential Memorandum “Accelerating Technology Transfer and Commercialization of Federal Research in Support of High-Growth Businesses,” released Oct. 28, 2011, is about as riveting as the Department of …
Traits of Great Employees and Leaders
Startups thrive on agility, uncertainty and personal responsibility, so employees who can cope with change and get in front of it are critical for leading-edge companies.
How to Get Funding and Keep Control of Your Company
It’s one of an entrepreneur’s worst nightmares: You get the funding that’s going to propel you to the big time from venture capital or another source, but you wind up giving up so much of your company in return that you lose control of it.
Where to Find Your Next Big Idea
Companies large and small are always searching for the product or idea that will become The Next Big Thing, but inspiration may be closer than you think.
Just How Underemployed Is Gen Y?
Gen Y is in a bind. This group of 18- to 29-year-olds has been told they must go to college in order to find a decent job. Yet upon graduating, few jobs are available to young people — and those that are open often don’t require …
Can Entrepreneurship Bring Change Where the Arab Spring Has Not?
Gathered together around a wide table, the group of entrepreneurs in Dubai for this year’s MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Business Plan Competition represented a key constituency of the Arab Spring generation: Young, educated, and …
What’s the Best Place in the World to Start a Company?
A professor at Yale School of Management offers a new argument about geography and the success of a start-up venture
You Gotta Have Faith: Why Overconfidence Can (Sometimes) Be Good for You
Overconfidence gets a bad rap among economists, and, it seems, for good reason. Overconfidence leads workers to overinvest in the companies they work for (putting both their employment and their retirement savings at risk if …
3 Simple Goals You Must Set for Your Business to Succeed
It’s been said that if you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there. That’s why goals are so important. And for hungry start-ups–the ones with a right-brain passion to create a world they want to live …
Don’t Stand in the Way of Innovation
Every company wants to be innovative, but there are things you may be unwittingly doing that could be stifling innovation.
