Entrepreneurial financing

For decades now, venture capitalists have played a crucial role in the economy by financing high-growth start-ups. While the companies they've backed--Amazon,...

An education-gaming firm that has relied largely on volunteer developers has to rethink this strategy as it prepares to pitch investors for a new round...

Company founders have to be optimistic and resilient. But new research shows that serial entrepreneurs-those who involve themselves in only one project...

It depends on the investor.

More data isn’t always helpful.

The Gulf oil spill looks like it might be capped. U.S. financial regulation is underway, plugging holes of another kind, which won't allow sub-prime mortgage...

With a venture buyout, an established company partners with a VC firm to spin out an internal startup.

Rapid growth is more dangerous for entrepreneurs than starting from scratch.

A hybrid model can balance the short term with long-term continuity.

But employees at disrupters don't stay as long.

A recent report by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation raises serious questions about the degree to which venture capital deserves emulation. The report, provocatively titled “We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us” [PDF], summarizes its findings thus: Limited Partners — foundations, endowments, and state pension funds — invest too much capital in underperforming […]

Since at least the 1980s (the era of deregulation, that is, over which Alfred Kahn presided) managers of big companies have been upbraided for their intolerance...

Special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, have been around in various forms for decades, but during the past two years they've taken off in the...

An education-gaming firm that has relied largely on volunteer developers has to rethink this strategy as it prepares to pitch investors for a new round...

Four years ago, Diane Ashton and Sundeep Lal were working together at MIT on a titanium extraction project. Durable and highly heat resistant, titanium...

When companies stay private longer, stock options are less appealing.

U.S. foundations and nonprofits work diligently on behalf of society's most needy and yet report that progress is slow and social problems persist. How...

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 […]

Founders often look to incubators and accelerators to grow their startups. But there’s another option.

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