Venture Capital

[ad_1] At the age of 16, most aspiring entrepreneurs get their start in business by taking on a newspaper route or mowing their neighbors’ lawns. Ramtin Naimi skipped all of that and started trading stocks instead. Two years later, at age 18, he started a hedge fund and always pushing …

[ad_1] When meeting an investor for the first time, entrepreneurs face a lot of pressure to make a favorable impression quickly. In many cases, this tends to make people talk too much in an attempt to appear confident, knowledgeable and articulate. It also makes them forget to ask questions and qualify …

[ad_1] An entrepreneur recently approached me and asked me to “tell him the truth” about working with Asian investors. In the several years that I have served as an investor and VP for a Japanese corporate innovation center, I cannot count the number of times I have answered this question. …

[ad_1] Venture capital can kill. Yes, it can get you the fuel you need to launch your rocket ship. And, yes, you get to join forces with an investor of great power. But if you give minimal thought to the dangers ahead, you are toast. You can find yourself fired from …

[ad_1] I recently got to spend some time with a man who many people argue is the greatest venture capitalist to ever set foot on planet Earth, Bill Tai. Many know him as a close friend of Richard Branson, a charitable man, an expert in blockchain, the guy who funded …

[ad_1] 2017 is poised to be a promising year for venture capital activity. Startup companies — and the venture capital funds that invest in them — enjoyed a blistering 2015 in which investors deployed $60 billion in venture funding, the second highest total since 1995. 2016 included the minor correction that …

[ad_1] This story appears in the April 2017 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » Howard Lindzon is an irreverent buzz machine who powers through wall-to-wall meetings on five milligrams of Adderall. A prolific blogger and serial entrepreneur (StockTwits, a Twitter for traders, is his crown jewel), Lindzon is founder and general …

[ad_1] As much as venture capitalists need to know about entrepreneurship, I am always intrigued, and watch closely, when a VC becomes an entrepreneur and then goes out to raise money. It truly is enlightening to sit on the other side of the table. Tammi Jantzen has done just that. …

[ad_1] Even if you’re bootstrapping your startup, you’ll need to raise some sort of capital at some point — which could include having an extremely important meeting with a VC. This can be overwhelming and nerve-racking, especially if it’s the first time that you’ve had to ask for money. To ensure that you …

[ad_1] Women are making huge strides in the workplace. Although only 7 percent of the 2,005 founders receiving funding, as described by the 2016 Who Gets Venture Capital Funding report, were female, many are trying to make up for lost time. The internet has created massive opportunities that shove gender bias aside, by empowering and …