Joseph Pulitzer used a form of crowdfunding to finance the Statue of Liberty. Obama used crowdfunding to bankroll his presidential campaign in 2008. ...

There have been a number of thoughtful "early warning sign" posts in the past few weeks including one from Fred Wilson (Storm Clouds), one from Mark S...

If people prepped as much for an important business meeting as they did for a first date, there would be a lot more business success stories.

I've been pretty clear as of late that I think the market for investing in web startups is getting overheated. When I talk to some people about this, ...

This is part of my ongoing Series on Mentorship. I've been doing a lot of thinking about mentorship and mentorship programs of late. In that I pro...

At a General Electric event in New York on Monday, GE and four venture capital partners announced 12 investments, totaling $55 million, in the first d...

Having been involved directly or indirectly in hundreds of early stage software and Internet companies, I believe the optimal number of founders for a software / Internet startup is between two and four.

When four out of five small businesses fail each year, tech start-ups have the odds stacked against them. And the prolonged recession and a downturn in venture investment haven't made it any easier.

Over the years, my partners and I have seen and experienced one business model that we love the best, based on fundamental cash flow and the ability to grow that cash flow as the business scales.

The tech world has been buzzing ever since judges at TechCrunch Disrupt named Qwiki 2010's most disruptive company. Qwiki's on-stage demonstration ...

Fund-raising is an awkward and often uncomfortable effort for those raising funds. But when the person asking is a women entrepreneur, the dance takes on many more nuances.

For startups, credit is like "experience" for job applicants -- you can't get it if you don't already have it. Despite a recent push by banks to giv...

A new breed of entrepreneurs is gaining steam: moms who decide to create new businesses after giving birth. While pundits ponder why women are u...

In measuring the life cycle of a successful startup, most investors will tell you that rapid growth usually takes place between the third and seventh ...

For starters, the Recovery Act is the most ambitious energy legislation in history, converting the Energy Department into the world's largest venture-...

People and business models should always trump the idea and market. So why are tech and pharma and other sexy ideas considered darlings, while coffee shops aren't?

Get your armor on, and keep it on. Otherwise, you will be stripped bare.

One can't help but wonder at the tales of a man who once wandered the halls of MIT pondering circuit design, only to now claim personal responsibility for converting the orchards of Silicon Valley into parking lots.

My company, InVenture, is just one answer to the problem of the underserved "missing middle" in developing economies.

This mapping project evolved from a late night a few months ago when I first decided to map-out the Silicon Alley early-stage investor ecosystem. I wa...

Ten days before my 20th birthday, I received a check for $750,000. On my 21st, I received a check for $4 million. As for my 22nd birthday, well ... that's a long ways away. Who knows what'll happen?

For all the talk about a chronic shortage of exits for venture-backed companies, one segment of the venture capital technology ecosystem is poised to go from "hot" to "hotter": Cyber-security.