Funding and Building your Business

Threadless churns out dozens of new–with no advertising, no professional designers, no sales force and no retial distribution. And it’s never produced a flop.

People are hungry for feedback, particularly positive recognition and appreciation. Unfortunately, few receive enough (if any) of it.

Disaster planning tends to get pushed lower and lower on owners’ to-do lists as they handle the more pressing day-to-day demands of running a company.

Is an Advisory Board or Advisors necessary?

Ethical conduct flourishes in an environment of openness and leadership-by-example.

A friend who has invented numerous items told me that patents were not worth the time and cost. Do you agree?

"My company builds and sells custom computers. Recently we’ve received some negative comments on consumer sites. How can we handle this hit to our reputation?"

"Our pipeline is very very large and growing," Labe says. "Definitely, demand for equity is more competitive than ever.

In this series of blog posts, I will walk through all 25 of the biases Mr. Munger identifies, and then adapt them for the modern entrepreneur.

In the highest numbers since the dot-com-boom era of 2000 and 2001, corporate venture capital funds last year invested in 21% of 3,900 start-up deals and put up 8% of the total $31 billion in venture money that was poured into young firms.