The real path to success and upward mobility, whether on a kids' baseball team or in closing a commercial contract, stems from merit, and an ability to better execute. Your age, experience (or lack thereof), and even your network comes second to your ability and determination to do great work.READ»
Is simply being small and new a recipe for creative thinking, and if so, what happens when a startup gets bigger, and older (presumably everyone’s goal)? Here are three ways to define what’s working at the startup level, and cement those principles as a company grows.READ»
New Enterprise Associates general partner Krishna "Kittu" Koluri, on what breakout companies, the ones that thrive and ultimately define an entire business category, do differently. READ»
Accelerators offer hands-on help from experienced mentors, sources for seed capital, and sometimes even co-working locations, and give entrepreneurs what they need to take a startup from concept to market more quickly and effectively than if they go it alone. Here's how you can get connected.READ»
Venture capitalists, corporations, private-equity firms, and more poured billions into private companies this year--a huge boon for titans like Facebook and Groupon. Here, the best of the rest starting 2012 with supersize bankrolls.READ»
In competitive sports, you are typically matched up with opponents based on age, size, and weight. Most of the time, these matchups are fair (or close enough), but occasionally you are matched up against someone twice your size and experience. Life’s not fair sometimes. And yes, this is exactly like the startup world. READ»
Santa Clara University's Global Social Benefit Incubator, which partners socially conscious organizations with Silicon Valley mentors, is an intensive bootcamp for entrepreneurs who want to change the world. It launched Kiva, and now ...READ»
The founder of entrepreneurship education program ThinkImpact decided to buy out his nonprofit and start a for-profit company with the same brand. Here's what he learned along the way. READ»
Startup culture is increasingly moving from the U.S. and the U.K. to the developing world. Nothing is a better example of this new cultural universality than Le Web, this week's tech conference in Paris, where 3,500 people from 60 countries have come to see each other and worship at the altar of innovation.READ»
In the latest installment of Fast Company’s future-gazing series, Crystal Ballin’, Elena Silenok of Clothia envisions an era of magic mirrors, virtual closets, and the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy by Alicia Silverstone.READ»
A constant sense of urgency is an omnipresent feature of the high-tech entrepreneur’s life. But people often confuse the pace of innovation with the pace of change. What has clearly accelerated is the pace of change. But is this pace producing better stuff...or just more stuff?READ»
You may feel like a maverick when launching a new business, but there are plenty of people coming along for the startup ride: your friends, family, business partners, investors, cofounders, employees, and more. And they’ve all got two cents to add. Here's what they'll inevitably say--and how you should react. READ»
Pitching your startup to potential investors is like dating: It's time-intensive, incredibly stressful, and an emotional roller coaster. These tips will help prepare you to effectively present your case to potential investors and increase your chance for success.READ»
When it comes to Silicon Valley startups, success stories are a dime a dozen. Where it really gets interesting is when you start talking failure. And no one has a more unique view on failure than Dave McClure, founding parter of VC and incubator firm 500 Startups. READ»
San Francisco's Rock Health is helping healthcare startups find their way in an industry that is notoriously difficult to enter; its first class of startups show an impressive range. READ»
In a New York classroom, 15 students are jammed around a table with laptops. The instructor is critiquing the class's website--and in the process, advancing one of the most interesting experiments in education today. This is General Assembly. This is augmented education, a stopgap for the startup economy.READ»
