Venture funding

Research reveals three ways they help early-stage companies achieve higher funding and survival rates.

Instead of casting a wide net, try a more strategic approach.

New research suggests that exclusive support from female investors may be a mixed blessing because it can make it harder to raise additional rounds of financing.

How to identify and attract investors who will support your long-term, stakeholder-focused plans.

The more rivals you outbid, the more likely you are to have paid too much.

An analysis of more than 4,000 firms, their founders, and their funders.

Recent research suggests that how new business ideas are presented may matter more than the quality of the ideas themselves.

An inside look at an opaque process

In a year of uncertainty, VCs acted like funding female founders was risky — but the real risk is in leaving them behind.

How to think about your existing collaborations—and the new ones you should seek out

Three proven strategies to make a difference.

It made the “spray and pray” approach more common.

It actually makes success more likely.

Research finds a new explanation for the gender gap in venture funding.

The surprising behaviors that can make a difference

Before it could become part of every iPhone, the “virtual personal assistant” had to cross innovation’s valley of death.

Most successful entrepreneurs never take any venture capital.

Business won’t change until entrepreneurship does.

Photography: Courtesy of the artist and Gow Langsford Gallery Artwork: Sara Hughes, Millions of Colours 3 (detail), 2003, acrylic paint on linen Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin: We celebrate these entrepreneurs for their successes, and often equally extol the venture capitalists who backed their start-ups and share in their glory. Well-known VC firms such […]

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