Funding and Building your Business

Some of the greatest research-and-development powerhouses of our times (think Procter & Gamble) regularly harvest big ideas from innovators outside their own walls. A range of small companies — from invention labs and industrial-design firms…

"Designers can facilitate strategic conversations better than anyone," says Buchanan, "because they have an ability to visualize issues and problems in a way that traditional business consultants can’t." Greta Garbo or Bob Costas? For Modo…

The signals the market has been sending the biotech industry aren’t good ones: 10 percent of public biotech companies are currently trading at levels below cash value. Life sciences IPO activity has been down 14…

The term "angel investor" seems to be an oxymoron. How can an investor be an angel? Investors are demanding, tough to please and blunt — definitely not angels. By Gary Williams Brigham Young University Angel…

Specialized web sites that help little companies go online almost instantaneously and at very little charge are fiercely competing for the attention of small-business owners. By JEFFREY A. TANNENBAUM Staff Reporter of The Wall Street…

It sounds almost cliched: A business partnership is like a marriage. But sometimes the old saws really do hold some truth, and people with successful business partnerships say the qualities found in a good marriage…

Launching his toner-cartridge-recycling company, Robert Welsh had a vague idea that he needed a business license. A phone call sent him down to the courthouse in San Jose, Calif., where he found he needed much…

What do women want? For starters, greater access to venture capital, according to a new survey Companies run by women aren’t getting their fair share of venture funding, according to the Diana Project, a new…

Mary Berner wasted no time putting her footprint on Fairchild Publications after she was named president and CEO of the fashion-magazine house three years ago. By CAROL HYMOWITZ Wall St. Journal The 43-year-old Ms. Berner,…

Read the ongoing results of a comprehensive study of entrepreneurship in the United States. New reports on entrepreneurship are arriving fast and furious. By Erik Pages Entrepreneur.com The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (NCOE’s sponsor) has…