Funding and Building your Business

Robert Hendershott, a professor of private equity and entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University, has also argued recently that venture capital is becoming less relevant for entrepreneurs starting Web companies.

Small businesses are agile. They’re known for being innovative and creative. They’re able to test and try things far easier than a larger company.

In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record—it’s easy to discover who’s in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don’t appear on any organization chart. To hunt them down, you need to know . . .

It’s every professional’s nightmare, the frightening thought that your client is talking with a professional from an arch-rival firm.

Unless you can reach a great VC independently or with help from others quickly, my suggestion is to wait with testing your CEO skills until Venture Capital, not the economy recovers. If you can.

Borrower and lender funding fees waived for loan approvals through September 2009

While I worry that managers might not read this carefully and jump to the wrong conclusions, it’s worth reading and considering.

“The fresher the better,” he said during a Streaming Media East panel session on digital content production, “and don’t leave it sitting around for too long.”

“I think we’re going to see a lot of businesses started by people who otherwise would not have started businesses” in better times, says Bo Fishback, vice president of entrepreneurship for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a Kansas City entrepreneurial-research organization. “Necessity-driven entrepreneurship can be a powerful motivator.”

Have companies sponsor bag dispensers in the city’s parks.