What separates successful business owners from less successful ones?
What are the traits and behaviors that drive an individual to start, sustain, and grow a successful company?
Do entrepreneurial attitudes toward autonomy, risk, work, and income affect business outcomes?
Intrigued by these questions and many others, Gallup studied 2,500 entrepreneurs to understand the actions and decisions that lead to venture creation and growth. After years of research and hundreds of interviews, Gallup has identified 10 specific talents that drive business success -- 10 behaviors we consistently observed in highly successful entrepreneurs.
Businesspeople love to talk about building "entrepreneurial cultures." The very term evokes the excitement and success of Google, Apple, and Facebook. The problem is that large established companies are often lousy at actually being entrepreneurial. Need I remind you about New Coke? Or Crystal Pepsi? Or the Ford Edsel and other failed launches?
The very things that ensure a company's survival and success act as obstacles to entrepreneurship.
Five or so years after the financial crisis, the pressure on boards and directors to raise their game remains acute. A recent survey of more than 770 directors from public and private companies across industries around the world and from nonprofit organizations suggests that some are responding more energetically than others.1 The survey revealed dramatic differences in how directors allocated their time among boardroom activities and, most tellingly, in the respondents’ view of the effectiveness of their boards.
3D visualization is at the cutting edge of technology — and it’s apparent that it’s at a hot target for investments as well.
InContext Solutions, a 3D virtual simulation tech company just announced it raised $12 million in series D funding to increase its global presence and its flagship product, ShopperMX. This platform stands to extend greater convenience to retailers worldwide by making store setup simpler.
ReWalk Robotics, the Israeli developers of an exoskeleton system that enables the paralyzed to walk, is going public, the latest step forward for a firm that is offering new hope to people who have lost the use of their legs.
The company announced Wednesday that it would seek to raise about $50 million with an IPO offering of 3.4 million shares at a price range of $14 to $16. With those numbers, ReWalk would be valuated at nearly $200 million. Shares would be offered on the NASDAQ stock exchange within 30 days, the company’s announcement said.
Blood sugar surges — after-meal glucose “spikes” — can be life-threatening for the 29 million Americans with diabetes. Diabetic blood sugar spikes have been linked to cardiovascular disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, kidney failure, and retinal damage. Now a new Tel Aviv University study, published in “Diabetologia,” suggests a novel way to suppress these deadly post-meal glucose surges: the consumption of whey protein concentrate before breakfast.
L'Institut Technologique Danois et l'entreprise EcoXpac développent un prototype de bouteille biodégradable issu de papier recyclé, qui pourrait un jour remplacer la bouteille plastique. Ce projet ("the green fiber bottle") a un budget estimé à 10 millions de couronnes danoises (soit environ 1,3 millions d'euros), dont 60% est financé par le Fond Danois d'Innovation en Commerce.
Imagine the U.S. economy as a somber, gray landscape. Now scan it with a thermal imaging device. See those vibrant green lights indicating heat? That's the Inc. 500.
Theatro, the pioneer of voice controlled wearable communications devices for hourly workers in the retail, hospitality and manufacturing market segments, announced today that it has closed a $5 million investment from Khosla Ventures in a Series A ro
Doctors are increasingly reliant on their smartphones, and they very much want to receive relevant and helpful clinical information there. But pulling data from multiple legacy hospital clinical systems and putting it in a useful format on the small screen is a tough nut to crack.
AirStrip is perhaps the best known mobile platform used by doctors and others in clinical settings. Emergency medical responders, ER doctors, hospital doctors and nurses, clinicians, outpatient caregivers, and skilled nursing facility personnel use the service.
