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Building a company from scratch out of the most unlikely place

27 June 2023 • by Mate Rimac in Entrepreneurship • 8 min read

Mate Rimac founded an electric supercar company in Croatia – a country with no automotive industry or start-up culture – when he was still a teenager, and against all odds, grew it...

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Five lessons from my life as a sustainable entrepreneur

5 May 2023 • by David Ramirez in Entrepreneurship • 5 min read

A fragile foundational partnership and the misalignment of your workforce can be the Achilles’ heel of a start-up ...

The anatomy of a merger: ensuring the long-term future of a family firm

17 January 2023 • by Peter Vogel in Entrepreneurship • 7 min read

To sell, merge, list or delist is a difficult decision that many business-owning families face at some point. Peter Vogel reflects on just such a turning point in the history of Firmenich,...

I failed but emerged stronger from the experience

21 November 2022 • by Arnaud Henneville-Wedholm in Entrepreneurship • 7 min read

Arnaud Henneville-Wedholm's dreams of glory were crushed in a David and Goliath battle with Mark Zuckerberg, but he firmly believes that failure can be a springboard to success if managed well ...

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Growth at all costs. Not so fast! There are alternative playbooks

11 November 2022 • by Jim Pulcrano in Entrepreneurship • 8 min read

For the past 20 years, ‘growth at all costs’ has been the dominant Silicon Valley mantra, with companies foregoing profitability to scale fast and dominate the market. Yet, in a time of...

There is life and purpose after the corporate world

2 September 2022 in Entrepreneurship • 5 min read

From a successful corporate career in the oil and gas industry to one as an entrepreneurial impact investor, alumni Chris Edwards, EMBA 2020, made a hard pivot mid-career and has not looked...

Prepare to pivot: four lessons learned from building a startup

30 August 2022 • by Yulia Voloshchuk in Entrepreneurship • 5 min read

One of the co-founders of sustainable energy startup IntellSol discusses the importance of viewing your original idea as a first draft that will evolve as you gain more knowledge of the market...

How to scale: Seven qualities of successful scale-up CEOs

17 August 2022 • by Jim Pulcrano in Entrepreneurship • 9 min read

Most startups will fail, but a few will achieve extraordinary scale. While there’s no silver bullet, being humble, identifying key metrics, and partnering with anchor customers are some of the traits that...

Financing the next generation of entrepreneurs

9 May 2022 • by Julia Binder in Entrepreneurship • 5 min read

Investors and entrepreneurs need to build personal relationships to collectively drive innovation...

Life as sustainable entrepreneurs: IntellSol’s journey

3 March 2022 • by David Ramirez in Entrepreneurship • 6 min read

Over the next few months, we’ll be following Intellsol’s journey as they work to validate their business model and raise funds to launch their proof-of-concept project (PoC) in Ghana under the Energy...

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From caterpillar to butterfly: Three steps to transition from entrepreneur to investor