Shainoor Khoja
Corporate Social Responsibility from the Bottom Up How can companies empower citizens of the world’s war-torn economies? For Shainoor Khoja, the answer includes bringing those citizens into the organization’s business model.
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May 23, 2016

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Forget Fear of Failure: 3 Ways to Take the "F" Word Out of Your Vocabulary Drop your fear of failure. In fact, Jay Markiewicz recommends removing the words “failure” or “fail” entirely from conversations about entrepreneurship.
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March 1, 2016

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Outsider app
How The Weather Company Used Data to Build the OutSider App The Weather Company's app for runners, OutSider, is the result of a hackathon that brought together meteorologists and programmers.
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November 5, 2015

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Five Ways to Tell Stories That Stick
5 Ways To Tell Stories That Stick Whether pitching to the sharks on "Shark Tank," at a business competition, or to a venture fund, the real power in a successful venture pitch comes from telling a compelling narrative story.
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September 4, 2015

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Peers Inc
Can the Collaborative Economy Fix Climate Change? How collaborative economy ventures, including car-sharing platforms such as BlaBlaCar, Lyft, and Uber, are helping combat climate change.
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August 31, 2015

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Catalina Escobar
Helping Teen Mothers Step Out Of Poverty Rocked by the painful loss of her toddler, Catalina Escobar channeled her grief into action.
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April 14, 2015

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Addicted to Entrepreneurship
Exploring the Psychological Side of Repeat Entrepreneurship Is entrepreneurship addictive? Research explores, and attempts to answer, that very question.
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March 26, 2015

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Objective Entrepreneur
How to Become an Objective Entrepreneur Entrepreneurs can be so tied up in their ventures and blinded by unyielding passion that often they don’t see things clearly and therefore can’t respond objectively.
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March 16, 2015

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Shark Tank
Swimming With The Sharks Entrepreneurs who have pitched on Shark Tank—including Jamie Siminoff '99 of Ring—share their experiences an advice for those seeking a swim with the sharks.
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March 3, 2015

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Why the Big Pharma Business Model Must Change Big Pharma is in the middle of a perfect storm of disaster. Changing it's business model is the only way the industry will weather the storm.
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February 3, 2015

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