Start-ups

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,...

Two factors determine who’s at risk.

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...

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...

Five hurdles - and how to overcome them.

With little seed capital available, founders need to learn to bootstrap.

Co-creators can offer resources, connections, and ideas - without requiring founders to give up control.

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...

Your best bet may be to invest in the inexperienced woman, instead of the experienced man.

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Many start-ups experience enormous popularity and runaway growth, but only a few go on to become stable giants. What separates them from the pack? They...

Government “start-ups” — new agencies, offices, or initiatives — have the potential to be a powerful tool for solving critical policy problems at the local, state, and federal levels. But while creating the “new and the nimble” within an established bureaucracy is a well-known art form in the private sector, governments are still struggling to […]

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

An analysis of more than 4,000 firms, their founders, and their funders.

Only 7% of board seats in private, venture-backed, U.S.-based companies are held by women.

Years ago the line between nonprofit and for-profit enterprises was clear, but that has changed. Nonprofits now offer products that compete with those...

Karan Girotra and Serguei Netessine, authors of "The Risk-Driven Business Model," explain how to turn inefficiencies into opportunities.

Silicon Valley venture capitalists used to routinely oust start-up founders--who were viewed as green and unskilled--as part of the process leading to...

Pros and cons of the five major funding sources.

The promise and peril of institutional voids.