Crowd-financing is a great tool to get your project off the ground, but it takes a lot of work and can often keep you from what you should need to, or are working on – the actual business.
There are of course other forms of crowd-financing, such as crowd financed managed seed/investment funds – but the [...]

On the 10th of May we covered the first part of out 10 best cities to start a company in the U.S. and today we round out the group by adding the other five.
San Diego, California
When 20+ year ago the military decided it was going to move some of its bases away from SD the city [...]

Everyone has heard of the elevator pitch but who has two minutes these days? You also need to be able to explain your business idea online in a lot less time than that. So the latest version of the elevator pitch is the tweet pitch – the twitch!
So is it possible to explain a startup [...]

In January we covered Europe’s top 10 entrepreneurial friendly cities, today we hop across the Atlantic and visit America, and while Silicon Valley, Boston and New York may all pop into mind as the de-facto places to start, we have some very interesting revelations. Sit back, and enjoy.
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina
Say what? Yes. North Carolina, not [...]

While entrepreneurship as a whole is a fairly central topic to most MBA curriculum and a good number of schools have entrepreneurship clubs that organize minor events, and amongst other things panel discussions with successful entrepreneurs. A few programmes have taken their involvement with the entrepreneurship community to the next level.
LBS is one such school [...]

It’s no great secret that your and your business partners’ professional networks will undeniably aid you in aiding your company expand, enter new markets and gain new clients. But the question is, if you don’t have an access to a strong professional network – how can you build it? And more importantly how can you [...]

A big problem with young companies is that aside from some very rough financial guidelines it is often very difficult to gauge whether the venture will or won’t be successful. Many investment houses have employed multi-metric project valuation and assessment approaches and at present there is ample work being done at top business universities in [...]

The elevator pitch, those few sentences that are pivotal to conveying the message of your company across. You may think you have it right, but the truth of the matter is that even if you think you have it right, try in on a few people and see what they think, then [...]

There is good news for start-ups this Monday. Index Ventures, a EU based firm has launched a new fund focusing on early stage deals, and plans to invest in twenty companies over the coming 24 months. Aside from the positive indicator that money is being raised in order to invest in new companies and that [...]