iBi - June 2010

These entrepreneurs have found the means for a lucrative business that allows for autonomous decision-making and leaves room for growth and change, but also comes with a tested marketing platform and the wisdom refined by years of company-wide trial and error.

What is it that makes a person want to own a business? This article will walk the reader through the steps necessary to evaluate if they can be successful as a business owner.

It is important that young people learn about entrepreneurship from an early age since the nature of the workplace is changing and evolving.

Dr. Kinsinger’s unconventional blend of ponderous tinkering and impressively technical medical knowledge—coupled with a little persistence—has taken the product from drawing room abstraction onto the shelves of dozens of retailers.

Is your business consuming your life? We have identified the six entrepreneur traps that can keep you from having the business and the life you dreamed of.

There are strong internal drivers that compel people to create their own business.

Businesses often ignore their reputation until they are facing a public relations disaster. But to get help from others, you will need to earn their trust.

In the business of commercializing innovations, we have to ask ourselves the key question: Can a business be built around this idea?

Why is it that many successful entrepreneurs fail to adequately plan for what is likely the largest single value transition in their life, the exit from their business?

I view entrepreneurs as visionaries who make their own luck. Many people fail to recognize when the window of opportunity opens.

Since the 1980s, the Peoria Metro region has added over 50,000 new jobs—proof positive that the entrepreneurship spirit is alive and well in the region.

I define social entrepreneurship as “using systematic entrepreneurial models to create and manage organizations with a mission for social change.”