Entrepreneurship

I recently sat down with Larry Cheng, a partner at Fidelity Ventures. He writes one of my favorite VC blogs, Thinking about Thinking, named after a course that both of us had the chance to take many years back at Harvard College. As part of my ongoing interview series investigating what lies at the center […]

The CEO of Better Place talks about what went through his mind the night he decided to start a venture to end the world's dependence on oil as a transportation...

Historian Walter Friedman on the pioneers of forecasting, and why we haven't gotten better at it.

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,...

The hardest part of being an entrepreneur can be learning to turn down business. It is also the only way to survive—and grow.

Two factors determine who’s at risk.

Crucial (and cost-free) ways policymakers can support scale-up entrepreneurs.

The Chobani CEO and founder talks about the biggest challenges along the way. "I never thought about quitting," he says.

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...

Finding the hackers, problem-solvers, and other people impatient for change.

And what's changed over the decades.

Factors that potential owners should evaluate prior to starting a new venture include: type of business, yearly income, and balance sheet net worth; potential...

It’s not exactly Minority Report – but it’s close.

The company and you have parted ways- now what? In an uncertain economy, one of the things you can predict is that there will be people who lose their corporate affiliation – either through downsizing, or because they elect to take early retirement, or for some other reason – and decide explore the self-employment instead […]

Chicanery is common in the start-up world: With so much at stake, founders are apt to exaggerate, obfuscate, and otherwise stretch the truth when courting...

They should focus on running their businesses.

Singapore, although far from Silicon Valley, has a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem, and I’ve been impressed by passion and talent of its entrepreneurs since my wife and I moved here a year ago. The government plays a big role in the city’s ecosystem — administering grants and programs that provide financial support for startup companies. Innosight […]

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

Bhasin was the head of GE Capital in India when, in the late 1990s, he had a vision for the future of a small division that was providing back-office...

It depends on the investor.