Entrepreneurship

How to know if it's time to fold 'em.

It's not the only startup to make that mistake.

Baldwin Farms, a California-based organic lettuce grower, has opened a distribution center in Pennsylvania to meet the rising demand for its product on...

The faster a company grows, the more dramatic the shift.

The company and you have parted ways- now what? In an uncertain economy, one of the things you can predict is that there will be people who lose their corporate affiliation – either through downsizing, or because they elect to take early retirement, or for some other reason – and decide explore the self-employment instead […]

New research suggests that social entrepreneurs may benefit from short bursts of business exposure.

A growing number of socially motivated entrepreneurs have been creating new kinds of organizations that combine a social mission with a business engine....

If you want to be successful, you have to harness the talent. The top private equity firms have a genius for hiring superior talent. All organizations need great people, but PE measures talent with one test only: performance. It’s not that private equity firms are heartless. Rather, their three- to five-year time horizon doesn’t allow […]

Just a few years after its 2005 opening, Georgia Aquarium faced a challenge common to all experience-based businesses: After an initial rush of traffic,...

How to assess your fit, find the right company, and make the leap

As a boy, Bush watched "Emergency!" on television and was captivated by the romance and seeming magic of saving lives. As an adult, he found the reality...

A workforce that increasingly bounces from job to job and city to city is pushing the 20th century open-office boundaries even further.

Our eyes are underrated innovation tools. It’s easy to get caught up in a whirlwind of activities and miss opportunities that are literally right in front of your face. Make a regular habit of just standing and watching. You may be surprised by what you see. Here’s how it worked for me recently. This Monday, […]

The economic distress of America's inner cities may be the most pressing issue facing the nation. The lack of businesses and jobs in disadvantaged urban...

Baldwin Farms, a California-based organic lettuce grower, has opened a distribution center in Pennsylvania to meet the rising demand for its product on...

In the last few months, the number of entrepreneurship workshops and trainings in Africa has increased. Entrepreneurship has become the next big thing in the continent and many young graduates are opting to take risks and run startups rather than seek traditional employment. New to Africa is that these new class of entrepreneurs are well-accepted […]

Two key questions: Do you have the right business model, and do you have growth ambitions?

In 1999, Mei Zhang quit her lucrative consulting job to launch WildChina, a small travel company in her native China. Nearly four years later, the SARS...

An ambitious executive is about to leave his employer in order to launch his own Pan-African venture. Should he start up in a rapidly growing, but already...

In the fall of 2012 the author decided he needed to do some soul searching. The start-up he'd founded six years earlier had grown into a global company...