Intrapreneurship is the practice of fostering entrepreneurial skills and mindset within an organization's existing employees.

Entrepreneurship is starting a company. Intrapreneurship is transforming a business from within as an employee. Elizabeth Funk is familiar with both paths. As an early employee at Yahoo!

That's a whopping 77% fail rate. Hence the need for the "intrapreneur" — a word coined in 1978 but freshly relevant in large companies as they recast themselves as tech firms. The intrapreneur ...

That, he says, is how he became such a successful intrapreneur. “The products I helped develop were within the mission of the company, so they had no problem investing in the patents— filing them and ...