Venture Capital

[ad_1] Investors are like anyone else, and no one really likes to feel like they are being sold to. So you can understand where Social Capital Partner Ashley Carroll is coming from when she says she doesn’t necessarily like to feel like she is being pitched when speaking with entrepreneurs. Lots …

[ad_1] This story appears in the September 2017 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » Nisha Dua is a true girl’s girl. When the former lawyer and Bain consultant joined AOL in 2013 to embrace her love of media and technology, she quickly found herself leading a charge to support young women …

[ad_1] Turning a startup into a successful high-growth business is a constant race against time. The entrepreneur is driving to achieve the milestones that make the company profitable as investors and board members seek levers to help the company scale. Everyone knows that superior execution depends on the creativity, tenacity and …

[ad_1] Update: Watch the first episode here this Wednesday, 9/20! The first 60 seconds of a business pitch can be the difference between achieving your highest dreams or falling flat on your face when seeking venture capital. Entrepreneur magazine teamed up with a group of real investors to put entrepreneurs to …

[ad_1] In America, millennial entrepreneurship is down. Despite the apparent strength of the startup and technology sector, millennials are projected to be the least entrepreneurial generation: Entrepreneurship rates for people under 30 have fallen by 65 percent since the 1980s. Plenty of ink has been spilled on the root causes …

[ad_1] AI has come a long way since the virtual assistant who reliably dialed the wrong numbers in your contact list. Thanks to a continuing stream of technological advances producing more promising capabilities than ever, AI-enabled products have seen venture capital investments in excess of $2 billion since 2011. Part …

[ad_1] Here’s a classic Silicon Valley contradiction. Virtually every CEO we’ve worked with has read every Steve Jobs biography and has misguidedly concluded the path to early success is to model Jobs’ personality and behavior. At the same time, VCs will tell you that they’ve begun to adopt a “no …

[ad_1] Many of us are wondering in these glory days of the Kalanicks, Shkrelis and Cagneys how we got here. How did so many mean men get power and maintain it? And how do some of them continue to do so? I researched these questions for my book Mean Men …

[ad_1] The video-game retailer Gamestop is launching a subscription service. The rental service is called Power Pass, and it will allow customers to play unlimited used games. The subscription is $60 for six months and starts on Nov. 19. At the end of the six-month period, customers get to keep the last game they …

[ad_1] The upheaval at Uber has made plain that women working in tech are subject to abusive and even predatory behavior from the men who own and operate fast-growing tech companies. Now a lesser-known scandal just unfolding at Binary Capital in San Francisco is revealing that women entrepreneurs face the same indignities …