Derek Lidow

Teaches entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity at Princeton University, author of Startup Leadership

Derek Lidow is a successful global CEO, researcher, innovator, startup coach and professor at Princeton University, where he teaches entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation. He was tapped by the University to inaugurate a campus-wide “design thinking” curriculum. Lidow is the author of Building on Bedrock:  What Sam Walton, Walt Disney, and other Great Self-Made Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us About Building Valuable Companies (2018) and Startup Leadership: How Savvy Entrepreneurs Turn Their Ideas Into Successful Enterprises (2014).

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Thought Leaders

Which Type of Entrepreneur Are You: Bedrock or High-Risk?

There are two fundamentally different kinds of entrepreneurs. It doesn't matter which you are, so long as you know which you are.

Thought Leaders

Getting at the Real Why

The most successful entrepreneurs in history have been those acutely tuned to solving the most common problems.

Leadership

Leading a Startup in Stage Four: Self-Sustainability

The travails of stage three have been surmounted; finally things are going well. Now it's time to disrupt your own company.

Social Media

Leading a Startup in Stage Three: Growing Strong

Smoothing the lumps and wrinkles out of your enterprise is a grinding process, but the company that does is sturdier for it.

Starting a Business

Leading a Startup in Stage 2: Operational Validation

Learn how to negotiate this treacherous ground and achieve operational validation.

Business Ideas

How to Find Real Customers for Your Startup

Tips for mastering the tricky first step of turning your idea into a viable business.

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