When Elon Musk took a hit of what was said to be marijuana in a video recording of the popular podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience” last September all hell broke loose. Tesla’s stock took a hit of its own, dropping more than…
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Mark Zuckerberg is at it again. On March 30, just 24 days after his bombshell blog about moving Facebook from an open platform to “privacy-focused” communications, he came back with an equally head-turning op-ed in the Washington Post. The new piece calls for global regulation…
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For 20 years Paul D. Reynolds worked as a sociology professor. Then he made the momentous career decision to focus on entrepreneurship. For the ensuing 23 years, he was affiliated with five business schools and served as the coordinating principal…
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Last month, federal prosecutors accused the founder of Mozido of criminal fraud and money laundering. The company was once one of the most highly valued financial startups in the U.S. Founded in 2008, its backers included asset management giant Wellington Management Co.…
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Would-be entrepreneurs of all ages come to me for advice about whether they should start a business and what it takes to succeed. They range from the students in my entrepreneurship classes at Princeton, through men and women at midlife…
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A single fact throws much of what we think we understand about entrepreneurship into confusion: over 90% of successful entrepreneurs make less money than other people who perform similar tasks and similar responsibilities, even after ten years of running their business. For…
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It wouldn’t be much of a stretch to rewrite the plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty to read: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to . . . become entrepreneurs.” In the midst of overheated…
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Bruce Springsteen achieved some of his greatest success with one of the greatest teams of all time, the E Street Band. So phenomenal was the band that in 2014 it was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame…
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When the founder of an otherwise successful company stumbles, the board of directors faces a wrenching decision: Should we force out the one person whose vision, drive and skills have brought the enterprise this far?
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“These days, entrepreneurship is often synonymous with tech startups and venture funding. But that’s not the reality for a lot of business owners. CEO, entrepreneur, and business professor Derek Lidow gets into the heart of what it really takes to…
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