In a recent Ad Age article, Martin Cass, president of Carat in the U.S., said, "Great [magazine] brands will make it through and find ways forward, but everyone needs to understand that this is ...

The allure to of a company-changing deal with a BDC is strong. Big companies make a number of seductive promises, including access to large markets, significant financial resources and vital public ...

The price per share of the Series A Preferred Stock that the venture capital investor is willing to pay is equal to the pre-money valuation of the company divided by the total number of shares ...

Once you have identified a solution to a problem, how do you decide if enough customers will actually buy it? Market research is the answer. Before you set up that corporation or LLC or race to ...

Venture Capital: A Practice Guidebook for Capital-Seeking Business, Owners, Managers and Advisors is a complete book covering the basics of venture capital funding, including a overview of venture ...

Up until now, the American patent system differed from the rest of the world in that U.S. patents were generally granted to those who invented first. The patent overhaul will change the U.S. system to ...

Kiss of Death - Contract Provisions Entrepreneurs Should Avoid at All Costs Agreements with Big Dumb Companies (BDCs) are like DC Comic’s evil villainess, Poison Ivy. Both are seductive and alluring ...

The numbers are staggering: The Labor Department recently reported 598,000 Jobs losses in January 2009, the worst one-month decline in 35 years, with the overall unemployment rate now at a whopping ...

"Uncle Saul" is a serial entrepreneur (who wishes to remain anonymous) who has led one IPO, was window-dressing in another and has executed several M&A transactions, all of which collectively ...

I've spent a reasonable amount of time thinking, over the Christmas break, of what types of startup companies succeed, what types raise funding, what types are capital intensive. It's also been ...

Yes, we are in a recession. Maybe not a textbook definition of one, but textbooks tend to be behind the times. So, we’re in a recession. You can feel it. You can see the change in the business climate ...

Three Keys to Obtaining Venture Capital is designed to help first-time entreprenuers understand the venture capital process and provides a useful step-by-step tool for creating a business plan.