If anyone in business ever needed mental toughness, it's an entrepreneur. Investors tell me that startup success is all about execution, all while facing determined competitors and overcoming customers' resistance to change.
Marty Zwilling | Posted 04.25.2012
Lack of confidence in yourself, your product, and your startup is a surefire recipe for disaster. At the other extreme, too much confidence or arrogance can kill you just as fast.
Jerry Chautin | Posted 04.02.2012
Rental apartments are back in demand, financing for hotels and motels is loosening up a bit and investors are stepping off the sidelines with wads of cash to do deals.
Mike Green | Posted 03.31.2012
"My No. 1 agenda over the next five years is to change Silicon Valley -- the face of it -- by bringing the same mentality I had with FUBU, which is bringing popular culture -- all my artists, myself, my capital and my friends -- to Silicon Valley."
Roger Ehrenberg | Posted 11.27.2011
Startup funding events are processes instead of panics and fire drills. In my experience, such frenzy is seldom necessary, but for some reason there appears to be an epidemic of "This deal is moving fast; if you want in you've got to hurry." Invariably, my response to such entreaties is: No.
Slate | Bethany McLean | Posted 10.31.2011
It's not even a week old, and Warren Buffett's deal to invest $5 billion of Berkshire Hathaway's money in Bank of America has already been dissected, ...
Posted 08.14.2011
OSLO - The chances of positively resolving Europe's serious debt problems are decreasing from day to day as authorities focus on "buying more time...
Bob Beaty | Posted 08.02.2011
Begin with the premise that your corporate story or vision is worth telling, which doesn't include you 40-something game developers eating hot pockets in mom's basement.
Marty Zwilling | Posted 05.25.2011
Every entrepreneur likes to think that their document is inspirational. Every serious investor has a stack of these in their in-basket. Here is what investors say the former shouldn't do.
Jerry Chautin | Posted 05.25.2011
Washington, D. C. is hot, but the rest of the nation is not when comparing our unemployment rates to the nation's capitol. "The largest over-the-month...
Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 11.17.2011
Here's a shocking question for you now. What if we never, ever go back to where we were? What if the old game is coming to an end, and a different way of relating with each other is emerging?
Marty Zwilling | Posted 05.25.2011
Executives and investors are now increasingly exposed to a wealth of ideas. Visionary leaders, on the other hand, are not so common.
Iris Mack | Posted 05.25.2011
Seems almost everyone I talk to these days is very outraged over the corruption in the financial system.
Posted 05.25.2011
Goldman Sachs' pledge that "clients' interests always come first" was formally called into question last week when the SEC filed civil fraud charges a...
nytimes.com | ANDREW ROSS SORKIN | Posted 05.25.2011
A while ago, a group of banks sued a Web site called theflyonthewall.com to prevent the site from publishing news headlines about their stock upgrades...
Damien Hoffman | Posted 05.25.2011
In addition to exposing a few absurd underlying economic presuppositions, Colander is helping shift incentives for professional economists toward engaging in more useful studies.
Jerry Brown | Posted 05.25.2011
Some called Beverly Hills financial adviser Stanley Chais an investment wizard, but in reality he was nothing more than a glorified middleman, channeling hundreds of millions of dollars in investors' funds to Bernie Madoff in New York.
Jerry Chautin | Posted 05.25.2011
Many of us know of people who have lost their homes through foreclosure. To a lesser extent we hear about struggling commercial properties vying for a limited pool of tenants.
Barron's | Teresa Rivas | Posted 05.25.2011
WHILE THE ECONOMY HAS FLOUNDERED, biotechnology companies have turned in a relatively healthy performance, even seeing gains in the last year while th...
Marty Zwilling | Posted 03.29.2012