Funding and Building your Business

An employee at the America Online campus in Dulles told me last week that if management had kept her and her colleagues up to date on happenings before and after the company’s merger with Time…

The venture capital world is looking less like a genteel club and more like a brawling barroom. Venture capitalists are offering the companies they bankroll increasingly hard-knuckled deals that leave little wealth for a start-up’s…

Calling all good business ideas. The Boise Metro Economic Development Council put out the word Thursday that it´s now looking for entrepreneurial presenters for its 4th Annual Intermountain Venture Forum in Boise. This year´s forum…

Would-be investors in startups get advice on making choices Several Denver-area groups offer advice for entrepreneurs looking to fund their ventures, from panel discussions to all-day pitch sessions. By Janet Forgrieve, Rocky Mountain News At…

The following is the first in a series of 4 excerpts from “How to Negotiate a Winning Term Sheet and the Best Valuation for Your Company” By Jeff Parness- Angel Investor News.com Possibly the hardest…

You are in a meeting when your colleague takes credit for your ideas. What do you do? Do you publicly confront the person? Say nothing? Or thank your colleague when she has finished speaking, then…

In the boom years, technology startups worried mostly about how much venture capital they could raise. Getting the next round of capital was considered a given, not a battle. Phil Sweeney Journal Staff Now tech…

Feedback valuable to workers; can help company mobilize resources NEW YORK — It’s on your to-do list, and you’re going to get to it at some point. In the meantime, your employees are wondering when…

Martin Lipton has often found himself at the intersection of law and capitalism during a long career representing the nation’s largest corporations. Meetings have become too compressed and too brief, writes authority on corporate governance….

Did you eat any fresh corn on the cob last weekend? Or cool down with a Frappacino? Sneezing from allergies this summer? Maybe you considered packing up the kids or grandkids and making a summer…