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What Are Early-stage VCs Looking for? Founders with Grit
If it’s lonely at the top, it’s even lonelier at the start. Josh Kopelman knows firsthand the struggle and isolation of starting a...
Jun 22, 2018


How Cadillac’s CMO Is Steering an Iconic American Brand
When she was the chief marketing officer of McDonald’s USA in 2015, Deborah Wahl came up with the idea of serving breakfast all day. She...
Jun 19, 2018


How Smaller Colleges Are Disrupting Higher Education
Higher education is under attack for saddling students with crippling debt that compromises their future success. But lesser known...
Jun 1, 2018


Never Give Up: What an Entrepreneur Learned from Failure
Ethan Senturia thought he had it all. He graduated with honors, landed a job at Lehman Brothers, then struck out on his own when that...
May 26, 2018


Why Creating a Business Plan Is a ‘Waste of Time’
A finely crafted, tightly defined, highly detailed business plan seems like a perfectly rational tool for getting your entrepreneurial...
May 25, 2018


Why Walmart’s Flipkart Deal Will Spur Entrepreneurship in India
The two creators of Flipkart, which was just scooped up by Walmart, met while taking extra courses in India to make up for poor grades....
May 24, 2018


How India Is Making Its Place in the World
India’s $2.6 trillion economy last year became the world’s sixth largest, outstripping France, and with a projected GDP growth rate of...
May 24, 2018


For Haier’s Zhang Ruimin, Success Means Creating the Future
Zhang Ruimin, chairman and CEO of the Haier Group, took charge of a struggling refrigerator factory in the 1980s and turned it into a...
Apr 21, 2018


How to Pitch Your Startup to a Venture Capitalist
Jenny Lefcourt is general partner at Freestyle Capital, a venture capital firm that specializes in seed and early-stage investments. She...
Mar 23, 2018


Want to Nurture Creativity? First, Get the Culture Right
Is creativity inborn or can it be taught? David Yager, CEO of the University of the Arts (UArts) in Philadelphia, believes it can be...
Mar 23, 2018
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