Funding and Building your Business

Risk-wary investors seeking aggressive deals in medical and science sector Venture money has been flowing more generously into medical and science deals than to other fields for a few quarters now. But it looks like…

Tech start-ups of the late ’90s couldn’t make enough noise about how wonderful their technology was. Now they can’t stay quiet enough. Hilmi Ozguc doesn’t want to talk about his new start-up, Maven Technologies –…

Lon McGowan’s start-up has survived its first six months, a tumultuous 176 days that has seen the young entrepreneur pile up more than $25,000 in credit card debt and lose his first employee. By JOHN…

Writing a good business plan is hard work. Hundreds of books and articles have been written on the subject, each offering different and often conflicting advice to entrepreneurs. You could read them all and still…

Often, an entrepreneur knows funding for their venture is necessary, but doesn’t always look in the right places for that illusive financing. Focus your time and effort seeking out the types of investors that give…

THE PROBLEM: What happens when an expected tidal wave of business reveals itself to be a brief splash? Mark Kolb, chief executive of Taratec Development Corp., of Bridgewater, N.J., is the first to admit he…

Forget software and Internet technologies, the real activity in Seattle is happening in medical devices. At least that conclusion could be drawn after three local medical-device companies — Spiration Inc., Vertis Neuroscience Inc. and Calypso…

Rob Ryan, founder of Ascend Communications and Entrepreneur America, will be honored by Cornell University on Sept. 26-27 as Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year (CEY) 2002. Ryan earned national attention when he grew his 1989…

It’s one of the oldest jokes on the Internet, endlessly forwarded from e-mailbox to e-mailbox. A software mogul — usually Bill Gates, but sometimes another —makes a speech. “If the automobile industry had developed like…

Although critics of employee incentive programs argue that they ruin the work ethic, many businesses find that giving out cash bonuses, merchandise, stock or other awards can result in less absenteeism, higher morale, more productivity…