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HBS Working Knowledge April 11, 2011 Carmen Nobel |
Teaching a 'Lean Startup' Strategy Most startups fail because they waste too much time and money building the wrong product before realizing too late what the right product should have been, says professor Thomas R. Eisenmann. |
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 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. |
Inc. December 1, 2009 |
Blogger Logic: Eric Ries on Why You Should Start a Business Eric Ries gives three reasons to start a company. Hint: Money is not one of them |
BusinessWeek November 19, 2009 Schramm & Bradley |
How Venture Capital Lost Its Way The current focus on fees at VC funds promotes startup flipping, not nurturing. |
Registered Rep. March 20, 2013 Kador & Cohen |
The Devilish Details of Angel Investing Angel investing can be fraught with peril -- for both the investor and the entrepreneur. But the devil's in the details. Here's a guide for mixing business with family and friends. |
BusinessWeek February 24, 2011 Brad Stone |
Paul Graham's Search for the Next Facebook Graham's Y Combinator is an early-stage investment firm and boot camp for entrepreneurs that uses "mass production techniques" in its search for and development of promising startups. |
Fast Company Vivian Giang |
4 Countries That Are Leaving Silicon Valley In Their Tracks All of these countries have a lot to prove if they're going to be the next Silicon Valley, but the fervor in their entrepreneurship spirit is definitely heard and felt. |
HBS Working Knowledge April 4, 2012 |
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors In his new book, The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup, HBS Associate Professor Noam Wasserman tells readers how to anticipate, avoid, and, if necessary, recover from the landmines that can destroy a nascent company before it has the chance to thrive. |
Fast Company Matt Haber |
The Geniuses Behind All Those San Francisco Startups? They're Not Who You Think They Are San Francisco. It's gotten that you can't swing a corporate-logo-splashed swag bag in this town without hitting someone working on a startup. |
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." |
HBS Working Knowledge August 21, 2012 Garry Emmons |
How to Sink a Startup Noam Wasserman, author of the recently released book "The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup," discusses ill-advised entrepreneurial behavior. |
Fast Company December 2009 Farhad Manjoo |
To Sell or Not to Sell: Silicon Valley Acquisitions Market Heats Up That is the question in Silicon Valley as the acquisitions market heats up. And with it, another head scratcher: Are acquisitions good for anyone? |
Fast Company May 2000 Katharine Mieszkowski |
How to Speed Up Your Startup When it comes to launching Internet companies, you can't be fast enough. Here are lessons in speed from a leading VC, the founder of an e-business incubator, and a team of anthropologists studying work and life in Silicon Valley. |
Entrepreneur November 2005 Amanda C. Kooser |
Monster Mash Monster.com's founder Jeff Taylor moves on to his next big startup. |
Entrepreneur May 2009 Dennis Romero |
A New Take on Incubators Today's incubators provide cutting-edge support for your startup. |
Fast Company Samantha Cole |
How A Startup Grows Up: Lessons From Airbnb's OpenAir Summit Startups can learn a lot from the leaders at a recent summit on the sharing economy. |
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. |
The Motley Fool July 1, 2010 Matt Shapiro |
Should It Be Called "Start-bucks?" With the java giant finally offering free Internet, Howard Schulz has just provided 11,000 free offices for startups. |
Bio-IT World December 15, 2004 Pauline Parry |
Springboard for New Companies in San Diego Long gone are the days when venture capitalists could be seduced with little more than a good idea, two smart people, and a hastily assembled PowerPoint presentation. A new program flourishing in San Diego may offer entrepreneurs hope. |
CIO August 31, 2015 |
CIOs create formal processes to get innovative tech from startups IT leaders can get an innovation injection by tapping into the startup ecosystem via tech incubators, advisory boards and word of mouth. |
The Motley Fool May 4, 2010 Wade Roush |
Behind the Scenes at Google Ventures: The Full Q&A With Bill Maris In-depth coverage of Google's new venture capital arm: Google Ventures. Their goal is to invest at least $100 million a year into startups and new ventures. |
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? |
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. |
Fast Company July 2000 Rekha Balu |
Does Your Startup Measure Up? Signing up with a young technology company need not be a leap of faith. Daniel Rippy got startup fever, left his job at Bristol-Myers Squibb -- and had second thoughts. His new book helps you look before you leap. |
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. |
Bank Technology News April 2010 John Adams |
Banks For the Disaffected Need Mad IT Skills The new wave in bank gestation is one in which the automation frontier and anti-establishment branding merge into a single strategy to lure disgruntled consumers away from existing financial institutions. |
BusinessWeek March 11, 2010 Douglas MacMillan |
Visas for Foreign Entrepreneurs The proposed StartUp Visa Act would open the door to foreign entrepreneurs who create jobs. |
Entrepreneur April 2006 |
Face Your Financials Look your lender in the eye, and get what you need with this expert advice for funding your startup. |
Entrepreneur June 2004 Amanda C. Kooser |
How Tech Got Its Groove Back After the dotcom bust, the tech industry is picking itself up and dusting itself off for another dance--with the help of some innovative entrepreneurs. |
Wired September 22, 2008 Clive Thompson |
Why Veteran Visionaries Will Save the World A recent study reports that older geeks are just as successful in developing high tech innovation as young geeks. |
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. |
CIO January 29, 2015 Kim S. Nash |
Bellwether Companies Are Buying Startups to Grab Tech and Talent Using emerging tech from startups is old news. The more powerful move now is to acquire a startup to capture its talent and creative spirit. |
Investment Advisor February 1, 2011 Jeff Joseph |
A Great (and Surprising) Venture Investment Source Many financial advisors are beginning to venture into venture. |
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. |
Fast Company January 2001 George Anders & Polly LaBarre |
What's Next for the Net? Just what does it mean to have an "Internet strategy" these days? Which ideas are venture capitalists still prepared to fund? How do organizations attract and retain the best people in a brutal business climate? Here is tough talk from a fast crowd about the changing future of the Internet economy... |
Job Journal May 11, 2008 Penelope Trunk |
Brazen Careerist: The Quasi-Corporate Life Here are five ways to use entrepreneurship to make your corporate job better. |
Entrepreneur October 2008 Amanda C. Kooser |
Start a Search Engine Company This duo stands apart from the big guys with their people search technology. |
Fast Company Nikita Richardson |
How A New Investment Group Led By Female Twitter Execs Could Help Solve Silicon Valley's Diversity Problem It's a well-documented fact that it's much easier to break into the hyper-competitive tech world if you're a man, and there is a dearth of female-led VC funds, with only a handful making an impact. |
Fast Company July 2000 Pamela Kruger |
Stop the Insanity! A new generation of dotcom entrepreneurs are creating companies that work -- without expecting people to spend every waking moment at work. Here's how to build a saner startup. |
Fast Company February 2005 Lucas Conley |
The Time of Our Life February 1997: Nasdaq was rumbling up to 1400, Amazon.com was still private, and a guy named Gilbert was running Apple Computer. |
Fast Company July 2000 George Anders |
Pssst: Wanna See a Great Business Plan? Welcome to the world of stealth startups, where hype gives way to passon for anonymity. But does it make sense to keep secrets in an age of instant communication? Mum's the word. |
BusinessWeek March 12, 2007 Spencer E. Ante |
Techies Across The Pond Europe's lively startup culture is attracting American talent. |
Entrepreneur June 2010 Kate Lister |
The $48,000 Question Where, exactly, do startups get their money? The answer may surprise you. |
Entrepreneur March 2008 Amanda C. Kooser |
Virtual Playground Building a kid-centric online startup? Here's what you should know. |
Entrepreneur April 2008 Rosalind Resnick |
The Missing Link Startup capital may be as close as your accountant's rolodex. |
BusinessWeek November 24, 2010 Douglas MacMillan |
So Google's Buying Your Startup. Now What? When Google buys a company, it offers financial incentives and expanded roles to founders it wants to shape into star executives. |
Entrepreneur June 2005 Sheree R. Curry |
A Shore Thing? Many startups are sending jobs overseas. But does offshoring help or hurt business? |
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. |
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. |