Recent Posts
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Entrepreneurship is Contagious
The question I get asked most as a 25-year-old entrepreneur: “How do you know how to do all of this?” My response, always with a laugh: “I don’t!!” There’s something exciting and liberating about this truth. I take risks because I don’t know any better. […]
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Sharks are dangerous, especially on TV!
Why Shark Tank Skews Reality for Nascent Entrepreneurs Written by Dr. Dan Cohen, Executive Director, The Center for Entrepreneurship First, reality doesn’t matter as much as the perception of reality. If you are like most people, your exposure to entrepreneurship and investors may be […]
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Evidence-Based Entrepreneurship—the tie that binds in the Entrepreneurship Minor at Wake Forest University
A paradigm shift has occurred in the discipline of entrepreneurship that has replaced the “build it and they will come” mentality that preceded the current approach known as evidence-based entrepreneurship (also known as lean startup or lean launch pad). The outmoded approach looked something like […]
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Dan Cohen named John C. Whitaker, Jr. Executive Director
After a successful fifteen-year career as an entrepreneur that included founding, growing, and ultimately selling his startup, Dan Cohen transitioned to academia full time in 2005 when he accepted a position teaching entrepreneurship and strategy courses at The University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business […]
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Startup Lab alumn accepted in MassChallenge Boston accelerator
Congratulations to Jake Teitelbaum, founder and CEO of Resilience Project, for being accepted into the prestigious MassChallenge Boston accelerator. Read about him here.