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How Tech Startups Protect Against the Downside of Corporate Venture Capital

Many large corporations are making corporate venture capital (CVC) investments in tech startups. While the innovation benefits for these corporations have received much attention in the business Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Yannick Bammens and Jakob Lilienweiss

Your Voice Can Influence Your Crowdfunding Success

New ventures needing investment often turn to crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter, StartEngine, and Indiegogo to reach funders and generate exposure to angel investors, venture capitalists, Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Thomas Allison , Benjamin Warnick , Blakley Davis and Melissa Cardon

Is Asking Friends and Family Members for Money the Right Move for Your Business?

Asking your friends and family members to support your business monetarily can be hard, but almost every entrepreneur needs to know how to do this if they want to grow their business. Even Read More...

Category: Features

Authors: Emelie Calbick and Betty Wong

When Does Microfinance Do the Most Good?

Since the mid-1970s, microfinance has been seen as a way to lift people in emerging economies out of poverty by providing them access to financial services, particularly microcredit. Micro-loans are Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Pushan Dutt , Jasjit Singh and Arzi Adbi

We Talk with Wes Schroll, CEO of Fetch Rewards, Softbank's latest Unicorn

On April 1, Madison, Wisconsin-based company Fetch Rewards became a unicorn, with a $210 million investment round lead by SoftBank VisionFund 2. EIX Editor in Chief Jon Eckhardt Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Jon Eckhardt

How Long Can Your Company Go Without Revenue?

In a recent podcast "Invest Like the Best" by Patrick O’Shaughnessy, the host was interviewing Atreides Management Founder and CIO Gavin Baker on the current investment environment during the Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Phil Greenwood

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: What They're Made of and How They Work

The success of any new business depends in part on the environment that surrounds it. In the same way that healthy plants depend on the soil and climate around them, new businesses depend on a Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Author: Ben Spigel

Managing Financial Risk When Starting a Business in Retirement

This article is part of America’s Entrepreneurs , a Next Avenue initiative made possible by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and EIX, Entrepreneur and Innovation Exchange . Part of the Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Jessica Thiefels