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EIX's Dave Feldman talks with the founder and CEO of Mom's Organic Market, whose business started in his mother's garage and has grown like a beanstalk. A self-described former "juvenile Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Dave Feldman
Jeff Freeland Nelson has some unusual advice for young people wanting to become entrepreneurs: major in theater instead of business. It will teach you how to make things, work with others creatively Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Daniel Forbes
Seth Goldman, founder and "TEO" of Honest Tea, believes in market-based solutions to social problems. In this discussion with Dave Feldman, he talks about how he integrates his business Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Dave Feldman
Is it possible to transform a staid and professionally respectable but entrenched legal industry? Yes, particularly when one of your startup founders is a multi-talented serial entrepreneur, Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Nicholas Vitalari
In 2002, both Linda Hall and her new company -- which would later become MinuteClinic, a fixture in 1000 CVS stores -- had a lot to lose. Hall was the sole breadwinner in her household and had Read More...
Category: Interviews
Authors: Daniel Forbes and Linda Hall
In a candid interview with EIX's David Deeds, Ann Winblad, co-founder and managing director of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, shares her war stories -- including her earliest entrepreneurial Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: David Deeds
Dick Schulze, the founder of Best Buy and EIX, shares his experiences as an entrepreneur and innovator, including how he tripled his income from his boyhood paper route; quit a retail job when his Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: James C Wetherbe
Entrepreneurial startups have the advantage of nimbleness that comes from being small and collaborative. They are a speedboat compared to the corporate barges they compete against in the early stages Read More...
Category: Case Studies
Author: James C Wetherbe