Funding and Building your Business

When people consider entrepreneurship, they often think about starting a new business. What should startup business owners consider in their planning?

A look at how four new business owners fared last year:

“How does this motivate us?”

About five years ago, we formalized the definition of our culture into 10 core values.

What’s more annoying than a 24-year-old who sells his company to Microsoft for $265 million and never has to work another day in his life? Easy. When that same guy sells his next company to Amazon.com for more than $1 billion.

Venture capitalists and entrepreneurs have told me there is an art to pitching your idea.

Computer science alone can’t answer all the questions of the modern Web business.

How to strike the right balance between confidence and arrogance? Start by avoiding the following classic traps. I wish they were clichés, but sadly they aren’t.

The starting point is having a unique winning idea.

The recession of 2008/09 was significantly different from previous recessions in two important ways: the use of pay cuts and furloughs to reduce costs.