Venture Capital

[ad_1] Reader Resource Apply now to be an Entrepreneur 360™ company. Let us tell the world your success story. Get Started » People often ask me what kind of personality traits successful entrepreneurs possess? I’ve always maintained a mental list, based on my observations over years of meeting with entrepreneurs who …

[ad_1] Reader Resource Apply now to be an Entrepreneur 360™ company. Let us tell the world your success story. Get Started » All-star first baseman Mark Teixeira played 14 seasons in the MLB, snagging himself a trophy shelf full of Golden Gloves, Silver Sluggers Awards and one World Series Championship ring …

[ad_1] Reader Resource Apply now to be an Entrepreneur 360™ company. Let us tell the world your success story. Get Started » Entrepreneurs have multiple sources of funding when they seek their first outside capital: friends and family, professional angels, venture capital (VC) funds and crowdfunding platforms. One type of funding, …

[ad_1] Startup database Crunchbase in April released some unsettling, if unfortunately not unexpected, data about who exactly receives venture capital money. In 2016, $94 billion was invested in companies that had only male founders, while $10 billion went to businesses with at least one female founder. Not only that, but …

[ad_1] The following excerpt is from the staff of Entrepreneur Media’s book Finance Your Business. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes As the founder and CEO of the HR platform Namely, Matt Straz has experience raising a growth round of funding. The following is his advice, from his point of view, …

[ad_1] The following excerpt is from Entrepreneur’s book Finance Your Business. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes Venture capital (VC) firms are often regarded as the holy grail of startup financiers. But what do venture capitalists want? For entrepreneurs in search of funding, this is the perennial question. In 2015, the …

[ad_1] This story appears in the March 2017 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » Jennifer Fonstad is the rarest of finds in Silicon Valley: cofounder of a woman-run venture capital fund. By the time she launched Aspect in 2014, with partner Theresia Gouw, Fonstad had already made the Forbes Midas list, …

[ad_1] Jay Z’s entertainment company is adding startup investing to its repertoire.  Roc Nation, which Jay Z founded along with Jay Brown in 2008, is launching a “startup platform” called Arrive to invest in early-stage startups and help those companies build their brands.  Related: Strong Goals and Relationships Are Major Keys for This …

[ad_1] When I sold my second startup in September 2013, I found myself with the free time to pursue one of my greatest passions: Stand up comedy. I’d always been fascinated by comedians and was deeply curious about the craft. So, I left Silicon Valley, where I’d spent years carving …

[ad_1] If you’re a fan of HBO’s Silicon Valley then I’m sure you’re looking forward to the season four premiere on Sunday night. I know I am. The show centers around a fictional tech company called Pied Piper located in — you guessed where — and its protagonists include Erlich Bachman, Richard Hendricks, Gordon …