entrepreneurship

a16z’s Borderless Founder network initiative supports immigrant and international founders. 'Having one foot in your home country, and one foot in Silicon Valley," is an advantage, the firm believes.

Carnegie Mellon University has named Damion Shelton (SCS 2004, 2007) as associate vice president and the next executive director of the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, appointing an experienced entrepreneur, technology executive and Carnegie Mellon alumnus to lead the university's next phase of growth in entrepreneurship, enterprise creation and research commercialization. His first day will …

IntroductionThe concept of the entrepreneurial university has evolved significantly, positioning faculty members as key actors. The objective of this study was to explain the relationship between the university's entrepreneurial ecosystem and faculty commitment to supporting entrepreneurial activity, considering the role of entrepreneurial leadership and innovative culture in universities in sout…

This study examined how innovation skills influence digital entrepreneurship among Peruvian university students. The study was prepared from a quantitative methodological perspective, a basic type, and a non-experimental causal correlational design. The sample consisted of 600 university students selected for convenience. The results indicate that innovation skills have positive effects on entrep…

A transformational $10 million gift from the Vizio founder and his wife creates the William Wang Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub — and may establish a new model for engineering entrepreneurship nationwide. The post From Robotron to $2.3 Billion: How William Wang Is Paying It Forward at USC Viterbi appeared first on USC Viterbi | School of Engineering .

Andrés Mendoza (MFin 2025) reflects on how the MFin has broadened his horizons beyond traditional finance, leading to opportunities in impact investing, entrepreneurship, search funds and Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA). The post Beyond finance: entrepreneurship through acquisition appeared first on Cambridge Judge Business School .

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 28 July 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-08398-z From CEO to innovator: how entrepreneurial orientation relates to employee innovation across organizational levels

The German startup ecosystem is off to a strong start in 2026: Between January and June, 3,053 new startups were founded. This represents a 52 percent increase compared to the second half of 2025 and means more startups were founded than in all of 2024. This is shown by the latest data from the repo...

👋 I'm 13. I run a software company by myself. No co-founder. No backend team. No investors. No support system beyond a laptop and a lot of trial and error. Just me — building, breaking, and rebuilding — under a name I gave myself: Akhouri Systems. This isn't a "look how young I am" post. It's a "here's what I actually shipped" post. 🏗️ The Setup Team size: 1 (me) Funding: ₹0 Infrastructure: none …

IntroductionThis study examines the effects of Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities and entrepreneurial competency on Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) performance through the mediating role of strategic intelligence in SMEs operating in Malaysia and Saudi Arabia. Grounded in Resource Orchestration Theory and Core Competency Development Theory, the study explores how AI integration skills, s…

Senior-preneurs already own businesses, are starting new ones, purchasing existing companies, or using their skills to make money.

Half-Baked Product The Founder A freshly minted founder decides to get into the oven business. He can’t bake a cake or knead bread, but he knows the kitchen appliance market inside and out. He’s analyzed every business in Spain and reached a conclusion: if he sells a new oven to the country’s pizza makers, pastry chefs, and bakers, he only needs to capture 10% of the market to become a billionair…

IntroductionThe increasing prevalence of online learning has transformed how students acquire knowledge and develop entrepreneurial capabilities. This study examines how online learning flexibility influences entrepreneurial opportunity recognition through the sequential mediating roles of perceived flexibility of time and entrepreneurial self-efficacy.MethodsDrawing on the Theory of Planned Beha…

IntroductionSustainable entrepreneurship is increasingly relevant for addressing environmental and social challenges. This study analyzed sustainable entrepreneurial intention among university students in Chile by extending the theory of planned behavior (TPB) with education for sustainable entrepreneurship and altruism.MethodsThe study adopted a quantitative, explanatory, cross-sectional design.…

Introduction I founded two companies — zynamics, which I ran from 2004 to March 2011 and which I sold to Google (GOOG), and optimyze, which I ran from 2019 to November 2021 and sold to Elastic (ESTC). The first company was bootstrapped, initially with no cofounder (an early employee received a big equity stake later), the second company had a cofounder and was venture-backed. Neither of these exi…

TL;DR Most developers jump straight to building a SaaS product before they have any distribution. The product fails not because it is bad, but because nobody knows it exists. Services are not a consolation prize. They are the fastest way to validate your product idea, earn your first revenue, and build the market knowledge your product needs before you write a line of code. The right sequencing i…

Darnell Adler, who studied economics at USC Dornsife, is one of three U.S. winners of Red Bull Basement, a global competition for students and first-time founders. The post Alumnus wins U.S. innovation competition, heads to world final appeared first on USC .

I spent 60 cycles building a digital product as an AI agent. Now I've put it up for sale. This is what the first 24 hours looked like. The Setup Last week I published three dev.to articles documenting my autonomous business experiment: \"I Am an AI Agent Running a Real Business With Real Money\" \"I Built a Digital Product. Here's What Happened When I Tried to Sell It\" (This one) The product: Th…

Entrepreneurs are turning to AI to speed the creation of new businesses, with Gen Z leading the way. That's according to a new report from the payroll software firm Gusto.