Venture capital

Being clear on what it means is not just an academic exercise.

Venture capital is ignoring the region for all the wrong reasons.

Most entrepreneurs understand that if the fundamentals of a business idea—the management team, the market opportunities, the operating systems and controls—are sound, chances are there’s money out there. The challenge of landing that capital to grow a company can be exhilarating. But as exciting as the money search may be, it is equally threatening. Built […]

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

In Silicon Valley, exciting new business ideas rapidly attract capital and talent away from less worthy ventures. But in big companies, ideas, capital, and talent are stagnant—prisoners of traditional bureaucratic ways of allocating resources. To capture the Valley’s entrepreneurial magic, your company needs to move from resource allocation to resource attraction.

In one of my posts last year, I shared a framework for more effective negotiations. The first step of the framework described the need for pre-negotiation...

In the book we're working on right now, we make the argument that capitalism is evolving because the environment in which it is situated is changing in...

One study found that people were willing to pay about 21% more for a product when they were told it was crowdfunded.

How entrepreneurs can decide whether to pursue corporate funding, and if so, which CVC to pick.

I recently sat down with Jeff Bussgang of Flybridge Capital to talk about his new book, Mastering the VC Game, an insider's view into the venture capital...

An analysis of male and female tech entrepreneurs.

A study of Swedish startups.

Evidence from more than 300 venture capital investments.

This week, over 10,000 entrepreneurs and investors will descend on Austin, TX for SXSW Interactive, hoping to be or to find the next big thing in technology....

It's not enough to be lean.

When high-tech start-ups go public, their boards tend to be dominated by company executives and venture capitalists. That creates dangers for public shareholders—and for the companies themselves.

And for hiring more female investors.

The market for IPOs is still open, and Titrolyte’s new titanium extraction technology has blockbuster potential. Will a public offering yield fool’s gold for the founders—or the real thing?

On a recent trip to New York, I sat down with Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Gilt Groupe, a site that brings designer...

Cleantech investments and patents are down.