The current thinking in high-potential venture development, and what many business schools teach, is mainly focused on the opportunity and venture capital method. This thinking has popularized pitch ...

Alternative funding is an increasingly viable option for startups, particularly those who want or need to look beyond venture capital. Venture capital (VC) financing may be a method of choice for ...

Michael Hauser, managing partner for Science Applications International Corp.’s venture capital arm, walks through how this part of the company works to bring emerging technologies forward after they ...

Getting off the ground is less about ideas and more about capital for many small business owners and startup founders. Great ideas, dedicated teams and solutions that herald breakthroughs are most ...

Sahlman, William A., and Daniel R Scherlis. A Method For Valuing High-Risk, Long-Term Investments: The "Venture Capital Method". Harvard Business School Background Note 288-006, July 1987. (Revised ...

TIME, in partnership with Statista, the leading global provider of market and consumer data and rankings, has published the first annual "America’s Top Venture Capital Firms” ranking. The result of ...

A road sign on Sand Hill Road, a metonym for the venture capital industry, in the Silicon Valley town of Menlo Park, California. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Since the emergence of the internet ...

Venture capital, often called VC for short, is a type of private equity financing. In a venture capital transaction, specialized investment companies called venture capital firms provide capital for ...

An investor explains the "buy, fix, and hold" model employed by Bending Spoons and similar companies that buy distressed ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alex Lazarow is a venture capitalist and the author of Out-Innovate. Investment in the financial technology space has skyrocketed ...