Funding and Building your Business

As an investor, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Partner Heidi Roizen said she tries to talk people into taking venture capital, but as a lecturer in Stanford University’s Department of Engineering, she tries to talk them out of it.

This legislation is intended to help start-ups raise capital and go public, but may also lead to many more money-losing, Groupon-like I.P.O.’s.

Upstarts! examines and analyses this entrepreneurial revolution to reveal critical lessons every Gen-Y entrepreneur and marketer must learn.

The most important belt that the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act loosens concerns the amount of capital a new company may raise through the sale of securities in a 12-month period.

What it really is, is a "company formation" bill that proceeds on the assumption that if we create more companies we will create more jobs.

As I wrote last week, an economics professor could hardly dream up a better textbook example of guaranteed market failure.

Reference checks don’t accomplish the job we intend them to do.

The American public should be proud of how functional Washington was these past few weeks.

It’s important you get this right.

Every startup should have a blog.