Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. The goal of their startup in this stage becomes “getting funded.” MORE >>

I think we can all agree that early stage investing has changed significantly over the past 10 years and I don’t see it reversing any time soon.  This gap straddles two stages of financing - seed stage and early stage.  This early stage gap is a problem that desperately needs a solution.  MORE >>

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. We were positing that 20 years of teaching “how to write a business plan” might be obsolete. Startups, Would we signs of success early?  MORE >>

In the “good old days,” angels invested in seed-stage startups and teed up promising companies for subsequent venture capital financing.  Larger VC rounds and the lack of early IPOs for exits have also resulted in substantially longer times to exits for venture capitalists.  My, my…how the world has changed. million and $4 million.  MORE >>

There are six distinct organizational paths for entrepreneurs: lifestyle business , small business, scalable startup, buyable startup, large company, and social entrepreneur. For policy makers, the first order of business is to methodically think through which of these entrepreneurial paths they want to help and grow. So What? MORE >>