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BusinessWeek December 31, 2008 |
How to Refurbish the U.S. Tech Industry A prescription for fixing the country's technology innovation machine. |
BusinessWeek July 19, 2004 Justin Hibbard |
Fresh Seed In The Valley After a long drought, small VC firms are popping up to fund startups |
Entrepreneur January 2008 Carol Tice |
Small Towns, Big Money Looking for capital? a new study shows that small towns might just be a VC paradise. |
Fast Company January 2003 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Back to the Garage Silicon Valley optimists say that now is a great time to start a new business. Everything's cheap, there's surplus talent, and as the veterans will tell you, "The tourists have all gone home." |
Inc. February 2006 Darren Dahl |
Facing the Capital Gap There's plenty of capital out there. So why are so many companies struggling to raise money? |
Fast Company February 2011 Farhad Manjoo |
How "Super Angel" Investors Are Reinventing the Startup Economy By being smaller, faster, and less demanding of entrepreneurs than VCs, super angels are getting first dibs on the best new ideas. |
Entrepreneur February 2009 Sara Wilson |
Tech Hotbed: NYC Even before the financial mess, New York City's tech startup culture had been gaining ground as a growing number of tech startups started choosing the Big Apple as their city of residence. |
InternetNews September 17, 2004 Colin C. Haley |
VC Resurgence Breathes More Life into IT Venture capitalists are raising and investing money again. What are they looking for and where? |
Entrepreneur April 2006 C.J. Prince |
All Aboard? Is your company's concept so cutting edge that investors won't touch it? There are ways to add credibility to a far-out idea, however, getting their attention -- and their money. |
Entrepreneur December 2009 Asheesh Advani |
A New Year, a New Strategy It's not all bad news on the financing front. Here are the top trends for 2010 and how to make the most of them. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2005 Stuck & Weingarten |
How Venture Capital Thwarts Innovation The tech bubble saw an explosion of VC-funded start-ups, but has more funding brought more innovation or less? You may be shocked, as they were, by what these researchers found. |
Fast Company December 2000 Katharine Mieszkowski |
She Knows How to Play the Game The startup revolution is as much about the democratization of capital as it is about the creation of new technologies. So why do women-led companies still receive only 4.6% of all venture funding? |
Entrepreneur May 2002 Chris Sandlund |
The Golden Egg Regardless of what term you use to describe the current economy, the fact remains that investors are sitting on a whole lot of cash. We know -- for 2 1/2 decades, we watched them make it... |
InternetNews October 21, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Joe Kraus, CEO, JotSpot Excite co-founder Joe Kraus is addicted to startups. His latest aims to make application development easy enough for everyone. |
Wired February 2006 Chris Anderson |
The New Boom Silicon Valley is roaring back to life, as startups mint millionaires and Web dreams take flight. But, no, this is not another bubble. Here's why. |
Entrepreneur April 2004 Melissa Campanelli |
Public Image? With Internet companies back on the IPO map and VCs becoming interested again, should you follow the pack? |
Inc. September 1, 2000 D. M. Osborne |
A Network of Her Own Women who are entrepreneurs have always found it tougher to raise money than their male counterparts have. New kinds of support and a new breed of investor are starting to even the score... |
BusinessWeek May 22, 2006 Hibbard & Green |
It Feels Like 1998 All Over Again Are we or are we not in an Internet bubble? Signs of it in Silicon Valley are rising, but whether that's cause for concern is a matter of fierce debate. Concerns about a second bubble aren't baseless. Clearly, valuations of startups are rising. |
BusinessWeek December 5, 2005 Farzad & Elgin |
Googling For Gold With a market cap in orbit and more cash than a small nation, Google's heft is altering the tech industry's behavior. But when does its long-awaited shopping spree begin? |
Entrepreneur November 2007 Mark Henricks |
Can Money Cramp Your Style? Does the promise of huge financial payoffs cramp the creativity of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs? |
BusinessWeek June 11, 2007 Edmondson & Schenker |
Where The VCs Are Flocking Now A few years ago, Central Europe and Russia were shunned by big investors. Not anymore. |
Inc. September 1999 Greco, Susan |
Get$$$Now.com New online intermediaries are closing the capital gap for companies that have outgrown friends-and-family financing but can't get a backward glance from venture capitalists. |
The Motley Fool June 21, 2010 Thong Le |
SF and Silicon Valley: Drop the Incrementalism and Invest in True Innovation For venture capitalists, this means backing ideas that may be more long-term (sometimes beyond the typical 3-5 year time horizon) and risky, supporting business models that may (at first) be unclear. |
Fast Company Vivian Giang |
Why The Few Women Venture Capitalists Often Give Up Only 2.7% of all venture-backed companies have a woman CEO. That's 183 out of 6,517 companies or $1.5 billion out of the $50.8 billion invested between 2011 and 2013. |
Entrepreneur August 2008 Carol Tice |
On the Horizon The economy may be down, but the expansion capital outlook remains positive in 2008. |
Wired April 2004 Gary Rivlin |
The Roots of Bust 2.0 Suddenly, venture capital is growing on trees. But the cash glut could crash the Valley again. |
BusinessWeek January 8, 2007 Spencer E. Ante |
The Return Of The Tech IPO Silicon Valley pundits are predicting 2007 will be the biggest year since 2000. |
Inc. May 15, 2000 Steven Berglas |
The Next Big Next Big Thing ...Forget about Cisco, Intel, or Oracle drawing talent from across the nation with the lure of cutting-edge careers. By 2001 the knowledge workers will be flocking to the gene-hunting companies... |
CIO March 15, 2003 Christopher Lindquist |
Betting on the Smart Money Venture capital still flows for good ideas. |
BusinessWeek August 16, 2004 Robert D. Hof |
"Please God, Just One More Bubble" Too many tech investors, from Wall Street to Sand Hill Road, seem to be ignoring why they crashed after the 1990s hit a dead end. Venture capitalists are pouring money into look-alike startups in nascent sectors and dot-com stocks look pricey. |
Entrepreneur September 2007 Chris Penttila |
I Spy a Secret Got a skeleton in your closet? Bring it out before seeking VC. Be forewarned, before VCs invest in you, they'll probably investigate you. But hey, you can investigate them right back. |
CIO September 1, 2011 Kristin Burnham |
LinkedIn Deciphers the Entrepreneur What sets entrepreneurs apart and where do they come from? LinkedIn scoured more than 120 million profiles to paint the picture of today's entrepreneur. Here's what they found. |
Entrepreneur May 2004 C.J. Prince |
Ready, Set, Flow Optimistic entrepreneurs are testing the VC waters now that the market's future looks brighter. |
Wired November 15, 2007 Carlye Adler |
The Man Behind the VC Slagfest at TheFunded.com Reveals Himself to Wired This community site allows startups to anonymously review and rank venture capital firms. The founder of the site discusses the process and purpose behind it's creation. |
Entrepreneur July 2010 Gwen Moran |
The Voices of Venture Capital 4 leading venture capitalists offer their takes on the ups and downs of VC investment, what captures their attention and the best ways to seek out VC money. |
Entrepreneur May 2002 C.J. Prince |
Springing Back It's not a mirage. The end to the long VC investment dry spell is within your reach... |
InternetNews March 30, 2007 Tim Scannell |
Jeff Glass, Partner, Bain Capital Ventures Strength and a little luck go a long way in securing funds to topple the YouTubes of the world. |
Fast Company April 2009 Kate Bonamici Flaim |
Startup School Trains Early-Stage Tech Companies Jessica Livingston, along with Trevor Blackwell, Paul Graham, and Robert Morris, cofounded Y Combinator, which trains early-stage tech startups for a "semester" to help them navigate companyhood. Alumni include leaders of social news site Reddit, acquired by Conde Nast in 2006. |
Inc. May 1, 2010 Bobbie Gossage |
An Insider's Guide to Venture Capital Financing Jeffrey Bussgang, author of Mastering the VC Game and a principal at Flybridge Capital Partners, on how to get funded. |
Entrepreneur November 2007 Amanda C. Kooser |
The Truth About Truemors Guy Kawasaki dispels rumors about the vitality of social media sites, gossips about his own successful site and explains how you, too, can get in on the social media craze. |
Fast Company May 2012 Farhad Manjoo |
Google's Creative Destruction Venture-capital firms have been the engine of the United States' innovation economy. At Google Ventures, the search giant's investing arm, Google thinks it can build a better one. |
Entrepreneur July 2003 Lefteroff et al. |
The Thrill of the Chase Nowadays, it seems venture capitalists are an endangered species, but your chances of finding VC funding are better than you think. We'll help you track down investors with our 3rd Annual VC 100. |
Entrepreneur April 2005 Mark Henricks |
The Fast Lane Sure, there are tried-and-true rules for growing a company. But some entrepreneurs succeed by breaking them. Here's a fist full of rules ready to be broken. |
Inc. March 1, 2003 Harris Collingwood |
The Private-Capital Survival Guide Even with both the economy and the stock market sputtering, private-capital deals are more appealing than ever. Why? Because well-heeled investors still need a place to stow their cash. But it's not just about the money. |
Entrepreneur May 2004 Joshua Kurlantzick |
Ready to Rumble? Today's economy is in a turnaround, but we need entrepreneurs to keep the momentum going. Get your company geared up to take on the challenge. |
Entrepreneur October 2004 C.J. Prince |
Minority Report VC firms are becoming more diverse--but does that mean more funding for minority-owned businesses? Not yet, perhaps, but an interesting shift is taking place. |
BusinessWeek August 14, 2008 Jeffrey Bussgang |
Think Like a VC, Act Like An Entrepreneur Getting employees to adopt both an entrepreneur's bias for action and a venture capitalist's talent for hard-nosed analysis is a challenge. But no one said excellence was easy. |
Entrepreneur April 2010 Brad Feld |
Know When to Walk Away Don't ask venture capitalists for referrals if they say they're not interested. |
Inc. September 2007 Max Chafkin |
Who's Behind TheFunded.com? A new website lets entrepreneurs talk trash about their VCs. |
Fast Company October 19, 2011 Curt Nickisch |
Greenhorn Connect Helps Startups Get On Their Feet, If They're Good Enough How young Bostonian Jason Evanish became a networking king. |