There is no Cupcake Manufacturers Association keeping count, but anecdotal evidence indicates that stand-alone cupcake shops have been spreading not j...
Jeff Bocan | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business
My infatuation with wind power was titillated in the unlikeliest of places: the background of a Monday Night football game where a tall wind turbine spun gently beyond the stadium's walls.
Patrice Peyret | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
Given the misdeeds of the banking industry, the financial services sector could make huge improvements simply by focusing on serving the ill-served with better, faster and cheaper products.
Krisztina Holly | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business
There is a common image of entrepreneurs being young renegades that aren't polluted by old ways of thinking. They come into a new industry, with no former biases, and turn it upside down.
Brett Greene | Posted 11.06.2009 | Impact
The 2010 Lilith Tour's partnership with TouchPoint Trust Group is an opportunity for fans to participate in the movement to take control in driving social change.
Chris Gunn | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business
Small business groups are concerned the real agenda of the upcoming Obama administration small business conference will be to adopt legislation and policy that will change the definition of a small business.
Jeff Bocan | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business
I want to offer a macro-level view of the larger opportunity I see in both Michigan and the Midwest, as a venture capitalist looking for small businesses that have a chance to become much, much bigger businesses.
Rebecca Fannin | Posted 10.20.2009 | Technology
It's no wonder that China venture is picking up again. Studies show that money spent in Chinese startups produce 12 times more than those in the US. But the window of opportunity is narrowing.
Mark Coker | Posted 10.19.2009 | Books
I invite you to play the word game. Copy and paste this post into a word processor. Replace "entrepreneurs" with "authors," and "startups" with "books." Now read it again!
wsj.com | CARI TUNA | Posted 11.28.2009 | Business
New companies will be crucial to the strength of any economic recovery. Businesses in their first 90 days of life accounted for 14% of hiring in the U...
Jeff Bocan | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
This summer, I decided to move my wife and three little kids away from the sunny beaches and new media millionaires of Southern California to -- you guessed it -- Michigan.
Rob Smart | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
Early pioneers of the sustainable food movement, with dirt on their hands, lessons learned and progress made, have played a critical role in blazing trails for new ventures.
Holly Hamann | Posted 11.14.2009 | Denver
Boulder's outdoor culture, innovative spirit and academic environment seem to attract creative types who want to nurture their ideas in a supportive, encouraging environment.
Philip Ives | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business
The Obama Administration has said entrepreneurship is vital to the American economy. However, there is no model for support.
Faisal Ghori | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media
The acquisition signifies that the Middle East has now for the first time become relevant in the eyes of American Internet giants, and with their attention, the region has become globally relevant for its technology-based entrepreneurship.
Julia Moulden | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living
What's up? It's the second annual SOCAP conference, the world's premiere social capital markets event (social capital investments incorporate three kinds of returns: financial, social, and environmental).
Frances Beinecke | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green
Full implementation of AB 32 will dramatically expand the promising figures already displayed by the growth in green jobs and venture capital in the clean energy economy.
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 08.28.2009 | Business
I asked an investment banking friend of mine how many VC deals he knew of in the tech sector over the last ten years. A thousand, he said. And how many are still around? I inquired. Three.
AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 08.06.2009 | Media
SAN FRANCISCO — Having built and sold two technology startups for a combined $11.7 billion, Marc Andreessen is ready to take a stab at, well, fi...
Tim Berry | Posted 07.30.2009 | Business
Is venture capital new, innovative small business, or just big business disguised?
Anthony Tjan | Posted 07.19.2009 | Business
Venture capitalists don't seek 5% improvements; they try to invest in things that will be transformational, like Google and Cisco. We wanted to apply the same upside-seeking strategy to Alzheimer's research.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 07.12.2009 | Business
I'm going to sound the alarm on the latest threat to federal small business contracting programs: Obama is going to support legislation that will allow the venture capital industry to dominate them.
Inc. Article | By: Max Chafkin | Posted 07.12.2009 | Business
Paul Graham's company, Y Combinator, is a hybrid venture capital fund and business school that invests in, advises, and, literally, feeds 40 or so ear...
Reuters | Alexei Oreskovic | Posted 06.20.2009 | Business
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hopes to eventually take his company public but said it won't be for a few years, and stressed that ...
VentureBeat | Matt Marshal | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business
Facebook has almost finished raising $150 million in capital, in an extraordinary move by the company to buy out shares of hundreds of regular employe...
nytimes.com | ELIZABETH OLSON | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business