This time of year proves to be a reflective time for all of us. In our yearly edition we highlight the most read articles of 2015. In this edition we have about 30 or so articles ...
For entrepreneurs, there are few tasks more important than raising the capital they need to keep the doors open as they continue their long march toward a profitable venture.
A recent article from ...
The State Entrepreneurship Index tracks core trends and reflects states’ entrepreneurship envi- ronments, growth in business formation and tech- nological innovation. Each state index is ...
Today, the Illinois Science & Technology Coalition (ISTC), a not-for-profit organization focused on growing the state’s innovation economy, is announcing the fourth class of corporate ...
Wouldn’t you like to be one of the lucky people who joined Google and Facebook when these were startups, and now be a multi-millionaire? So people ask me “How many shares should I ask for or ...
Jon Gosier is one of those well-to-do tech entrepreneurs you may have never heard of. That might be because he made his money heading not to Silicon Valley, but to Uganda.
It's there that he was ...
Every entrepreneur I know can’t find enough hours in a day to do the good things they want, and yet they often find themselves saying yes to new requests. Perhaps because they are optimists by ...
Update: Frog Design has just unveiled their complete list of Tech Trends for 2015. Make sure to check it out for 11 other trends Frog thinks will hit big this year!
Around this time every year, ...
It’s people — not cities — who innovate, invent and create things that benefit all of us. Still, cities play a central role in innovation by providing the necessary ecosystem that allows ...
Crowdfunding is all the rage these days, and it makes sense. There are many potential benefits, such as the prospect of developing an enthusiastic base of early adopters before there's even a ...
In many ways start up culture is like a local music scene. A place can influence what comes out and create a strong association. Just think about Memphis and you think blues, which can feel a bit ...
About once a week, I hear an entrepreneur during a financing presentation tell me that the product is almost ready for General Availability. They say, “Now all we need to do is hire a sales ...
Valuations have been a hot topic in recent equity crowdfunding investment opportunities. The valuations of some recent high profile crowdfunding campaigns have beaten new records. Professional ...
As a venture development organization (VDO) based in Northeast Ohio, we at JumpStart often get asked why entrepreneurs in fly-over regions like ours face more challenges than they do on the ...
“They do things bigger and better in America.” Whether referring to automobiles, movies, homes, skyscrapers, or fast food menus, this is a familiar refrain in Europe.
The digital era has been ...
Policymakers adopted messaging and narratives around the importance of enabling “access to financing” long before the more recent policy efforts to support new firm formation. However, ...
Demo days from startup accelerators tend to have a formula. One by one, the CEO of each “accelerated” startup runs onstage to thumping music—or in the case of one CEO at the Techstars NYC ...
If there is one case study in startupland that will haunt investors and entrepreneurs for years to come, it's Fab.
The former design flash-sale site pivoted more times than Madonna reinvented ...
Ever wondered where big, breakthrough ideas come from? How do innovators manage to spot the opportunities for industry revolution that everyone else seems to miss?
Contrary to popular belief, ...
Okay, so I have to start by admitting that when I first heard the term ‘brand yourself’ I thought of baby cows. As in, baby cows receiving the very painful and permanent imprint of someone’s ...
As a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, the most common question I get is, “I want to be an entrepreneur -- how do I start?” The obvious answer is that you need an idea first, but I’ve ...
March 20, 2015 Scale Up Milwaukee celebrated regional economic growth with a full-house graduation event of the 15 graduating ventures from the second Scalerator program. The finale featured the ...
While we’ve seen a lot of coverage on Millennial entrepreneurs more broadly, we’ve seen much less on student entrepreneurs who are starting their entrepreneur journeys while at school. Two days ...
Floating on the stockmarket could fall out of vogue for start-ups backed by venture capital in favour of trade sales to incumbents, because of lower demand for massive exits.
Jeremy Colless, the ...
In this world of constant change, new technologies, and a thousand cultures, it’s evident and somehow comforting to me that the basic rules for business prosperity really haven’t changed in the ...
"It's a Rubik's Cube."
That's what New Enterprise Associates general partner Harry Weller told me about the monster venture capital firm's philosophy regarding the management of its giant funds. The ...
For 50 years, Moore’s Law has reliably described exponential advances in silicon speed, power and functionality. But with the cost per transistor rising for the first time in history, we’ve ...
What is the biggest deterrent to starting a business in this country? I don’t think there is much of a deterrent. (In 2013) we know that more than 520,000 new businesses started, so, as a ...
On Tuesday, April 7th, MOGUL had the opportunity to attend an exclusive panel discussion sponsored by Staples which featured Shark Tank’s Lori Greiner.
An expert in retail, having launched over ...
At New York City’s newest university, the Ivory Tower is being declared dead before it even gets built.
That’s the philosophy embodied in the name the Bridge, one of three buildings slated to ...
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