5 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make While Raising Capital

5 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make While Raising Capital

Eric M. Jackson  01.17.2012
Raising capital can be a challenging process, especially in an economic environment marked by so much uncertainty and risk. But entrepreneurs...
Facebook IPO: The Facts and Figures Behind One Of The Largest Offerings Ever

Facebook IPO: The Facts and Figures Behind One Of The Largest Offerings Ever

Greg Voakes  01.17.2012
How much are your Facebook friends worth? It's difficult to put a price tag on friendships -- but we might soon find out what Wall Street...
Something Old, Something New, Something To Solve The Borrowing Blues

Something Old, Something New, Something To Solve The Borrowing Blues

Andy Sack  01.17.2012
With small-business lending at banks at its lowest point in more than a decade and venture capitalists only willing to offer term sheets...

Serendipity, Not Search, Finds Top Apps

John Backus  01.13.2012
Quit trying to trick customers into downloading your app via incented downloads. Put your app where your customers are likely to discover...

Should You Burn Your Business Plan?

Frank Farwell  01.11.2012
Burn it in the fireplace, recycle it with this week's trash, or deep-six it in the back of a storage closet. You'll probably be doing...
Letting Go

Letting Go

Roger Ehrenberg  01.10.2012
In my experience, exceptionally bright, driven, visionary people commonly share a particular attribute: a high need for control. These...
The Three Cs Of Startup Pitching

The Three Cs Of Startup Pitching

Patrick FitzGerald  01.10.2012
The best entrepreneurs know that pushing for clear, concise messaging will help shape a uniform investor pitch, a magnetic brand, lucid...

The Management Team -- While Building Usage

Fred Wilson  01. 9.2012
So your startup has graduated from the "building product" stage and has entered the "building usage" phase. But what does this mean for...
Academia's Emerging Role In Entrepreneurship Policymaking

Academia's Emerging Role In Entrepreneurship Policymaking

Robert Strom  01. 9.2012
While the mounting interest in entrepreneurship in the government and at our universities is encouraging, it is hardly enough to create...
Retail Reinvented, Again

Retail Reinvented, Again

John Backus  01. 9.2012
We are in the middle of another battle between brick and mortar and e-commerce. Best Buy is dying. But it is not alone. Welcome to the...

A Restaurant Closes, and a Community Mourns

Frank Farwell  01. 5.2012
On New Year's Eve, the much-admired Rubaiyat restaurant in scenic Marquette, Michigan held its last supper. Why did the lights go out January...
What Sears Could Learn From This Business Owner

What Sears Could Learn From This Business Owner

Gene Marks  01. 4.2012
Sears has failed to get my attention. Jake's, a store 1/1000th of their size, has done a better job. And the biggest reason: service. This...

Washington and Banks Don't Understand Small Businesses Are the Engine of Economic Growth in America

Lloyd Chapman  01. 4.2012
Let me give you some advice I have been giving to people for a decade: quit listening to what your politicians are saying and start watching...
Check the Work Ethic In Your Company, If You Dare

Check the Work Ethic In Your Company, If You Dare

Marty Zwilling  01. 3.2012
Are you and your company part of the problem, or part of the solution? Remember that a poor work ethic by even one person in the organization...