Funding and Building your Business

If your employees are afraid of the consequences of making a mistake, your business will suffer. Usually, the source of such reluctance to make mistakes can be traced back to the company’s owners or upper…

The startup revolution is as much about the democratization of capital as it is about the creation of new technologies. So why do women-led companies still receive only 4.6% of all venture funding? by Katharine…

Little-known legal tips to help you start your business hassle-free You’re very excited to start your venture, but you need to know the legal landmines to avoid before you hang your shingle. We got the…

Owning the Future Despite its flaws, the system does protect inventors against big companies who might usurp their ideas. By Seth Shulman MIT Enterprise Technology Review In April, after four years of bitter and expensive…

Green can be good, says Harvard Business School professor Forest L. Reinhardt. In a recent reunion session for alumni, he outlined how environmentally-minded company policies can make good strategic sense for business. Here are some…

Entrepreneurs start companies for many reasons. Some dream of making it big, like Bill Gates or Sam Walton. Others simply want to become their own boss. Still others believe they have an idea so tantalizing…

The 200-year-old U.S. Patent Office is beginning to show its age. Abraham Lincoln understood the value of intellectual property to American prosperity. Lincoln is, in fact, the only President to be awarded a patent (for…

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones/AP) — Eager to avoid the next corporate scandal, investment bankers and venture capitalists are increasingly taking some age-old advice to heart: The only stupid question is the one you didn’t ask. The…

Shae Hong was one quarter shy of completing his course work at the University of Washington when he decided to quit school to create an Internet start-up. By JOHN COOK SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER It was…

Venture capitalists in New Mexico and elsewhere are demonstrating a cautious, sober attitude that took root two years ago, says George Friberg, director of Technology Ventures Corporation (TVC). There is plenty of private equity looking…