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Entrepreneurs Scratch Their Own Itch

In this video, Paul Kedrosky, Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, suggests that the best entrepreneurs are people who scratch their own itch. What makes a successful entrepreneur?

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Entrepreneurs in India

Many times we think of India as a country where American manufacturing and entry-level jobs are outsourced. But, in this TedX Talk Nirmalya Kumar, professor of Marketing at the London Business School, says that global corporations are now sending management positions to India as well. Professor Kumar explains that this is a result of entrepreneurship [...]

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Avoid three pitfalls when starting a business

Noam Wasserman, Harvard Business School professor, outlines the three pitfalls startup founders must avoid – the three Rs: relationship decisions, roles decisions, and rewards decisions. Have you made any of these mistakes?

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Great Idea Pillow Pets

Why didn’t I think of that? We all have ideas. But, what makes an idea successful is to turn it into a product and then into a company. That’s what Jennifer Telfer did. She founded Pillow Pets.

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Self Education

I was reading about Duke University’s InCube center, a place designed for Duke student entrepreneurs. An inspirational message displayed on the wall in the InCube center was, “Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.” Are today’s college students more entrepreneurial than those in the past? How do they define work [...]

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