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Jon Eckhardt
Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation Distinguished Professor / Wisconsin School of Business & Wisconsin Institute for Discovery / University of Wisconsin-Madison
Twitter: @jon_eckhardt
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Even some experienced entrepreneurs don't understand how business accelerators operate and what they can do.
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Applied and Practice
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Alec Slocum started his smartphone-based apartment-hunting service, ABODO, after being frustrated in his own search for shelter. He sat down recently with Jon Eckhardt to talk about how he launched
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Eric Martell co-founded EatStreet as a 19-year-old to create a "digital food court" and online ordering for mom-and-pop restaurants serving hungry college students. His startup has now grown to 110
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Joe Kremer's company, Isomark, provides life-saving technology that can detect potentially deadly illnesses early through a simple breath test. In this interview Kremer talks about how Isomark was
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Vinyl, CDs or cloud? Meet the entrepreneur behind the service that helps music collectors have it all.
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In her years as an entrepreneur, Toni Sikes has focused on helping artists find people who will pay for their work. Here's her advice for new entrepreneurs.
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Markets are a strong mechanism that force entrepreneurs to produce outputs that are useful to customers. Ironically and sadly, schools that groom future entrepreneurs too often don’t consider
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Theory and Research
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Hobbyists and passionate "early adopters" often point the way to potential commercial successes.
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Applied and Practice
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Like the football execs who try to pick future Super Bowl standouts, VCs often take a chance on businesses led by unproven entrepreneurs. It takes experience to spot the diamond in the rough.
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Theory and Research
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Many entrepreneurship professors want to provide students with applied learning experiences. Yet, implementing an applied project in a large, introductory entrepreneurship course can be a challenge.
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Education and Teaching
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Founders have staying power when they have deep knowledge that is important to their company’s commercial success but hard to share with others.
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Theory and Research
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Professor David Teece is one of the impactful business scholars of his generation. His research has been cited over 128,474 times according to Google Scholar. His work is required reading for Ph.D.
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Academics can make their research more meaningful and useful by engaging with businesses and their real-world problems.
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Charles Dhanaraj is the Executive Director of the Translational Research Center at Temple University’s Fox School of Business and the H. F. Lenfest Professor of Strategy. He is an expert in
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Entrepreneurs often perceive a gap between research conducted in academia, and the practical problems that they face when building companies.
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While many entrepreneurs and teachers prefer being in the same room, working effectively online can save the day (or the semester) during a crisis.
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Education and Teaching
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In this video, Jon Eckhardt interviews Rob Roquitte about building his pre-seed stage company that he started before the COVID-19 pandemic. Roquitte's company, eCIO , helps nonprofit
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Interviews
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Participating in e-Fest gave undergraduate innovators not only capital for their businesses, but also connections, confidence and valuable experience. We caught up with teams from 2019 and 2022.
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Student Feature
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The founder of the $4 billion payroll processing company talks with us about challenging conventional wisdom, complimenting competitors, the pitfalls of sharing equity and what he looks for as an investor.
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While "Becoming the Best" was published a decade ago, the takeaways from Dick Schulze's book remain great operating principles for anyone who runs a business.
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The founders and CEOS of Best Buy, Minute Clinic, LegalZoom and other successful companies share their advice for early-stage entrepreneurs in our exclusive video series.
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In Part 2 of our exclusive video series, celebrated entrepreneurs discuss how they convinced early investors and lenders to take a chance on them.
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Mentors and carefully chosen advisors can help founders make sound decisions. Watch and learn how these advocates helped shape MinuteClinic, LegalZoom and other firms.
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As part of our exclusive video series, leaders of celebrated companies discuss how to attract and incentivize your startup team, and how those teams can evolve as the company matures.
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Once you've established a new company, how do you get it to the next level? Founders of celebrated companies share their experiences in our exclusive video series.
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These five exclusive videos focus on the critical steps in launching a company: developing an idea, getting financing, advisors and mentors, building a team and growing the business.
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This interview is a preview of EIX's upcoming customer development series, a series of interviews with entrepreneurs building technology companies who share insights on customer discovery and customer development.
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Software companies that initially gained traction by reducing complexity are now facing the threat of disruption from startups that reduce complexity even more.
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Applied and Practice
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Our new feature explores the principles outlined in Steve Blank and Bob Dorf's book, "The Startup Owners Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company."
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Chapter 2 of our series features an interview with Max Fergus of LÜM, an alternative streaming platform that helps emerging musicians connect more authentically with fans.
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We interview Taralinda Willis of Curate, which gives customers access to information from from public committee meetings, agendas and minutes.
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Serial entrepreneur Brian Wiegand, co-founder of six companies, talks about whether founders should be visionaries or managers of uncertainty.
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Structure matters when going through the customer discovery process, but startup founder Rachel Carpenter notes that sometimes you just need to wing it.
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This interview with Alex Yampolsky, co-founder and chief operating officer of Vytal Health, focuses on the importance of testing your proposed product or service and knowing when to pivot.
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The co-founders of Laquerus turned down lucrative job offers to start a nail salon. Here's how it evolved and what comes next.
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Corey Capasso of Urbint talks about his company's evolving role in providing technology to prevent infrastructure disasters.
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This chapter discusses the importance of testing and experimenting to determine how a product or service will be sold, before committing resources towards something that may not work out.
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Our best-read articles in 2021 overwhelmingly fell into two themes: survival, and bringing a great idea from concept to market.
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Madison-based Fetch Rewards, which helps consumers get rewards from their grocery shopping, attracted a $210 million investment.
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Don't panic. These eight steps can help entrepreneurs protect their ventures.
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Applied and Practice
What Family Businesses Need to Know About the Silicon Valley Bank Failure
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The SVB fallout is affecting other banks and troubling many business owners. These eight steps can help you protect your firm.
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Applied and Practice
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Editor's Picks
The Startup Owner's Manual
Blank, Steve, and Bob Dorf. 2012. The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company. K&S Ranch, Inc.Steve Blank is a former entrepreneur and teacher who invests in startups; Bob Dorf has a background in venture capital. Their book helps entrepreneurs follow a process that will reduce their risks of over-investing in ideas too quickly, and likely improves the odds that entrepreneurs are on the right path by discovering a way to meet the needs of an unknown body of customers in a way that's repeatable. The book’s processes for entrepreneurs are very similar to the scientific process that scholars use to discover make new inventions and new academic discoveries. The book is a must-read for aspiring entrepreneurs.
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