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By Riordan Lee
Going out for a walk to clear your head is something a lot of us do instinctively, but scientists have revealed that there are actual biological reasons behind it.
Researchers at Stanford have uncovered the psychological benefits of walking and the implications it has on creative thinking.
The study required participants to take a creativity test (the Guildford...
I've co-authored this article with my friend Sam Ovens of Ovens Enterprises after a conversation we had about how we both got our entrepreneurial start in consulting. We soon realized this was a conversation we should share with other aspiring entrepreneurs who are trying to find an entrance into entrepreneurship.
Some of my most valuable lessons in entrepreneurship came from...
If you have ever ordered the steak and lobster special at a dinner that your startup was paying for, go slap yourself. And then do it again, just so you remember that feeling. It will actually be a lot worse if you run out of cash.
Startup founders are optimistic. They have to be, to take what others might consider...
By Jessica Mai
As Patrick J. McGinnis writes in "The 10% Entrepreneur: Living Your Startup Dream Without Quitting Your Day Job," "You don't become an entrepreneur because you want to be rich or famous. You become an entrepreneur because it chooses you. No matter when you make the decision, you know in your gut you just have to go for...
by Alp Mimaroglu
The self-made billionaire reads a lot, exercises a little and plays the ukulele.
This piece originally appeared on Entrepreneur.com.
When the Oracle of Omaha talks, people make pilgrimages. In fact, thousands of Berkshire Hathaway shareholders flock to the tiny town of Omaha, Nebraska each year to hear him talk about investing.
Of course, if any business leader...
By Entrepreneurs' Organization
Morris Tabush, an Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) member from New York, is the Founder & President of Tabush Group, a leading cloud computing, technology solutions and IT services company. Morris attended the recent iConic event and found key learnings from many of the speakers in attendance.
Last week, I was amongst a few hundred attendees at iConic: Seattle. Most of...
By Lisa Calhoun
4% of companies never hit $1 million in revenue in a year. Those that cross the million dollar mark are doing something that the others aren't.
Building million dollar companies from scratch
If anyone knows how to create a million dollar company from scratch, it is Atlanta serial entrepreneur David Cummings. Before he turned 35, he co-founded six companies that not only...
By James Kerr
The other day, I was watching Inc.'s very own Issie Lapowsky's Malcolm Gladwell interview. They were discussing Gladwell's most recent book, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, when the topic of "Desirable Difficulties" was brought up in their conversation.
As the theory goes, introducing certain difficulties into the learning process can greatly improve long-term...
For College students, there are some of the products as well as services that are quite creative and they actually make your business fun. Some of them involve the proposals related to technology, while the others are based on very simple but brilliant ideas that can prove to be very successful. Some of the new great business ideas for...
Probably the first and most persistent question I had when my partner and I started our own company was, “When does the company actually start?” Babies have due dates, and it turns out that companies (thanks, Scalia!) are people. So on what date would our company be considered born?