Business News
How to Unlock the Free Market Possibilities of Net Neutrality’s Repeal
A whole lot of innovation is waiting to be tapped once ISPs are allowed to differentiate between users and uses under net neutrality.
Per Bylund, PhD, is associate professor of entrepreneurship and Johnny D Pope Chair and Records-Johnston professor in the School of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University. His areas of research are entrepreneurship, management and economic organization. He is author and editor of six books.
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Human Resources
3 Keys to Determining Fair Wages for Your Team Members
Employment is like any other aspect of business. People are looking to trade their skills and resources to a company that can offer them meaningful compensation.
Thought Leaders
The ‘Harvey Weinstein’ Problem Need Not Be a Death Sentence for Companies
Follow these tips to ensure that your founder's exit -- should that event occur -- doesn't take your company along with it.
Tech
Is There Life After Amazon Go for Your Local Retail Cashier? 4 Lessons This Technology Offers
Don't weep for those cashiers. They're headed to more productive, better-paying jobs. And you're headed to better customer service.
Business Accounting
Stop Shooting For the Moon! Raising Prices Won’t Raise Your Profits. Catering to a Niche Will.
Stick with appealing to a niche audience before building out. Here are three ways how.
Tech
Robots Do It Better: Why Automation Is Good for Business
Rather than a threat, the rise of more intelligent machines represents an opportunity to disrupt the economic status quo through automation.
Building a Business
How to Avoid Looking Like a Villain When You’re Price Discriminating
Companies that are able to vary pricing without upsetting customers in the process stand to gain quite a bit.
Business Ideas
Amazon’s Lesson About Disruption: Rattle Any Market You Can
Entrepreneurs can stick to their static business models or learn from Amazon's innovation mindset.
Business News
3 Entrepreneurial Lessons From the Amazon/Whole Foods Mega-Merger
The entrepreneurial community should be watching this deal with bated breath for the revolutionary retail repercussions sure to come.
Business Ideas
Actually, There’s Not an App for That: Innovation and the Physical World
By pairing software and hardware in inventive new ways, visionary companies can disrupt even the most disjointed or stagnant industry.
Marketing
Customers Lie — So Stop Taking Their Bad Advice
Your customers can put your business on the map, but that will happen only if you get the real scoop before you launch.
Building a Business
Ditch the Political Gamesmanship — How Entrepreneurship Can Fix Healthcare
Instead of trying to replace Obamacare, let's let entrepreneurs play a prominent role in fixing our broken healthcare system.
Human Resources
How Entrepreneurs Can Hone Their Management Skills to Fuel Production
Entrepreneurs rarely make smooth transitions into managerial roles as their startups mature. Utilize these four strategies to successfully make that leap.
Tech
How Being App-Happy Undermines Your Business
Apps might be relatively easy to produce, but they're not a cure-all for startups' business problems.
Thought Leaders
‘Ride the Lightning’ the Way 1 of the Best Thrash Metal Bands Has Done
Find success as an entrepreneur the way Metallica has done for, yes, three-plus decades.
Online Presence
Why You Should Ignore the Success of Facebook and Uber
Some entrepreneurs try to replicate the magic of today's blockbuster companies. They shouldn't: Those companies are built on an extremely shaky business model, or no model at all.
Building a Business
Are Entrepreneurs an Endangered Species? 3 Safeguards to Ensure You’re Not Next.
The middle class is withering away and financing is difficult to secure. But that doesn't mean entrepreneurs should abandon their dreams and stick to safer routes.
Thought Leaders
4 Ways to Cut Production Costs Instead of Your Team
When money gets tight, find solutions that don't cost jobs.
Building a Business
How to Specialize Without Locking Your Startup Out of the Market
Take stock of whether your startup is innovating incrementally or is being boxed in by an unripe market.
Building a Business
4 Reasons You Should Start a Firm Instead of Launching a Startup
'Startup' and 'firm' are similar terms but with a distinction that can lead entrepreneurs to greatness.
Business Ideas
How to Harness Joseph Schumpeter’s ‘Forgotten’ Path to Innovation: Organization
Ask yourself these three questions to bring the power of organizational innovation to your startup.
Building a Business
Has Innovation Reached Its Breaking Point?
Despite the collective suggestion, innovation is not dead. In fact, you can revive it in three easy steps.
Building a Business
4 Ways Advancing Technology Promotes Efficiency and Job Growth
Entrepreneurs aren't in business to hire people but that is the roundabout result of the economic growth their success drives.
Thought Leaders
3 Ways the Sharing Economy Changes Entrepreneurial Opportunity
In the sharing economy, the role of the entrepreneur is not to produce but to coordinate production.
Building a Business
The Top 3 Economic Challenges Facing Entrepreneurs in 2016
The upcoming year will favor those who best prepared for changes in the economy, technology and globabilization.
Building a Business
4 Ways to Transition From Founder to Successful Manager
As customers start rolling in, your company needs leadership and a strategy to stake out the road ahead. In short, it no longer needs a founder; it needs a manager.
