Entrepreneurs and founders

New technologies can be unsettling for industry incumbents, regulators, and consumers, because norms and institutions for dealing with them don't yet...

A new study reveals that people who start companies pray more often and are more likely to believe that God takes a personal interest in them.

The void beyond Earth has become an exciting frontier for entrepreneurial ventures. SpaceX, Blue Origin, and scads of other companies are pursuing commercial...

In the 1990s, just out of college, Andreessen went knocking on VC doors in Silicon Valley, looking to fund what became the breakthrough web browser Netscape...

Ever wondered how entrepreneurs convince VCs to fund their businesses? A leading venture capitalist delivers the inside scoop on what not to say.

Five strategies to sustain a healthy partnership.

Noam Wasserman is a professor in the entrepreneurial management unit at Harvard Business School and author of the “Founder Frustrations” research blog. My research on founders and CEO succession prompted two key questions about the move by Yahoo’s board to replace CEO Terry Semel with Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang. (Semel is being moved to non-executive […]

On average, their value-add tends to decline after an IPO.

The world needs more entrepreneurs--the people who make innovation real and advance the "frontier economy." It's a failure on the part of society if their...

The more rivals you outbid, the more likely you are to have paid too much.

Exhaustion shouldn’t be a badge of honor.

Research shows a salary bump for former business founders and owners.

A growing number of socially motivated entrepreneurs have been creating new kinds of organizations that combine a social mission with a business engine....

Researchers attended 150 meetings between start-ups and corporations including IBM, Sony, L’Oréal, Toyota, and AstraZeneca.

Emmett Shear is cofounder and CEO of Twitch, the fast-growing streaming service popular with video gamers, which was purchased eight years ago by Amazon...

Their salaries are typically lower than male founders'.

Not every founder departure is a failure.

Every aspiring entrepreneur can recite the truisms of the business: Feel comfortable with risk, hire the best people, do what you love, and don't do it...

It puts a premium on customer experience, but undervalues strategic thinking.

It actually makes success more likely.