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Startups With Onsite Employees Grow 3 1/2 Times Faster Data shows that pre-seed and seed startups with employees showing up in a physical office have 3 � times higher revenue growth than those that are solely remote. Let the discussion begin. During the Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Steve Blank
Like so much else today, the hiring process has radically changed. While it remains important for prospective hires, especially those fresh out of school, to demonstrate concrete evidence of job Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Steve Blank and Nancy Forster-Holt
Should family members work outside the family business before joining? Experts have long recommended that this is the best (and only!) way for the next generation to learn the skills and knowledge Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Joseph Astrachan , Isabel C Botero , Carol Wittmeyer and Claudia Binz Astrachan
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic being mostly behind us, many organizations, particularly family-led small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs), are still grappling with the fallout. During a crisis or Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Qizhen Cai and Kimberly Eddleston
How should entrepreneurs spend their time to enhance their effectiveness? Conventional wisdom would suggest that they must dedicate almost the entirety of their time and effort at work to breathe Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Author: Alexander Hamrick
Editor’s note: In this series, Next Avenue will follow Patricia Wynn as she embarks on becoming an entrepreneur with her North Carolina lifestyle assistant business. Future installments will note Read More...
Category: Features
Author: Leslie Hunter-Gadsden
Photo Courtesy of Carl Schlenk AG To thrive, family firms need to cultivate loyal, long-term employees, as they ensure a stable and reliable business. At the same time, family firms need to encourage Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Emanuela Rondi , Ruth Überbacher , Leopold von Schlenk-Barnsdorf , Alfredo De Massis and Marcel Hülsbeck
Diversity and inclusion programs are being embraced by firms of all sizes everywhere. In this interview, family business Editor Kim Eddleston talks with Professor Michelle Duguid, who runs the Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Interviewee: Michelle Duguid
Entrepreneurs face many challenges when building a new company from an innovative idea -- financial pressures, networking for seed money, satisfying venture investors who have their own expectations Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Elisabeth E. Bennett, PhD
Small and medium-sized family businesses, which employed a large proportion of the labor force before the COVID-19 pandemic, are reeling from the post-pandemic challenge of retaining current staff Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Roland Kidwell and Victor Boyi