Venture capital

Students of Clay Christensen's work are familiar with his insight that "disruptive innovation" usually has its genesis in spots where the "important"...

And why it needs to end.

Evidence from more than 300 venture capital investments.

Succeeding in this role will help you build your brand, increase deal flow, and improve the performance of the companies you invest in.

My most irritating - and surprising - professional failure came from what I thought would be a straightforward success. In the immortal words of failed...

The market for IPOs is still open, and Titrolyte’s new titanium extraction technology has blockbuster potential. Will a public offering yield fool’s gold for the founders—or the real thing?

It’s not just about growth.

Lose sight of that and you lose the company.

The more rivals you outbid, the more likely you are to have paid too much.

An analysis of more than 4,000 firms, their founders, and their funders.

The deck is stacked against entrepreneurs who aren't in San Francisco Bay, New York, or Boston.

Entrepreneurship is more celebrated, studied, and desirable than ever. Business school students flock to courses on entrepreneurship. Managers, fearful of losing their step on the corporate ladder, yearn to step off on their own. Policymakers pin their hopes for job creation and economic growth on start-ups rather than on the once-preeminent corporate giants. Belief in […]

In one of my posts last year, I shared a framework for more effective negotiations. The first step of the framework described the need for pre-negotiation homework with an emphasis on understanding the specific interests and positions of the opposing side. Making a list of these points is the right starting place as it helps […]

Editor's note: This week, in the run-up to the 2010 PopTech conference, we'll be running posts from PopTech's 2010 class of Social Innovation Fellows....

When companies stay private longer, stock options are less appealing.

Most VCs and entrepreneurs believe start-ups are inherently iterative, that a string of mistakes doesn’t prevent success, but may even be the path to it. Generally, that view is correct, but there are a few choices made early on that have implications so deep as to be functionally irreversible, with profound implications for outcomes. Product […]

Understand the market and the needs of the consumer to stay in the game.

For decades now, venture capitalists have played a crucial role in the economy by financing high-growth start-ups. While the companies they've backed--Amazon,...

Innovation requires focus.

Based on a study of 918 Israeli companies.