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The Start-Up Diaries: Mother Is the Necessity of Invention

To create his company, edu.com founder Adam Kanner needed to get the highest-powered talent he could get. And he knew just where to find it.  Read more

The Start-Up Diaries: Mother Is the Necessity of Invention

To create his company, edu.com founder Adam Kanner needed to get the highest-powered talent he could get. And he knew just where to find it.  Read more

The Fast Track to Face Time

It's the eternal question asked by every entrepreneur who ever tried to raise capital: What do venture capitalists want? The answer, according to the Web ...  Read more

The New Entrepreneurial Elite

Lured by enormous compensation packages and the excitement of fast growth, many big-company executives are leaving cushy positions to run start-ups.  Read more

Report: Groupon Valued at $1.2 Billion

The group-buying site is barely 18 months old and already worth more than the economies of some small countries.  Read more

Unlocking Genetic Secrets

Profiles of companies hoping to map the entire human genome and locate the genes that cause any number of diseases.  Read more

Traffic Will Make You Rich: The Word from the Experts

Sales, not traffic, are what's needed to create profit for a Web site, according to the experts.  Read more

Leaders of the New School

A look at how small companies are taking big social media ideas and advancing them in a thousand incremental ways.  Read more

Building a Web Site Is Easy: The Word from the Experts

E-commerce experts discuss the technical hardships a business can suffer when trying to create a customer-friendly Web site.  Read more

Brand Is Everything: The Word from the Experts

E-commerce experts discuss why having a good brand does not necessarily generate sales on the Internet.  Read more

Wild Ads Make Web Stars: The Word from the Experts

Ad campaigns for dot-coms should explain what the business does in order to be effective, say industry observers.  Read more

Traffic Will Make You Rich: The Word from the Experts

Sales, not traffic, are what's needed to create profit for a Web site, according to the experts.  Read more

Brand Is Everything: The Word from the Experts

E-commerce experts discuss why having a good brand does not necessarily generate sales on the Internet.  Read more

Building a Web Site Is Easy: The Word from the Experts

E-commerce experts discuss the technical hardships a business can suffer when trying to create a customer-friendly Web site.  Read more

Smart Money Makes You Smart: The Word from the Experts

E-commerce experts weigh in on the importance of finding smart investors.  Read more

Community, Community, Community: The Word from the Experts

Not every company needs to build an online community, say Web observers.  Read more

Community, Community, Community: The Word from the Experts

Not every company needs to build an online community, say Web observers.  Read more

Any Given Start-Up

In years past, only a Super Bowl ring could light up the eyes of a burly football player. Now he's just as likely to perk up over a new dot-com. Pro athletes...  Read more

Razzle-Dazzle Makes Web Sites Great: The Word from the Experts

Bells and whistles can hinder a more important aspect of Web sites ? speed.  Read more

Razzle-Dazzle Makes Web Sites Great: The Word from the Experts

Bells and whistles can hinder a more important aspect of Web sites ? speed.  Read more

The 50 Most Active Venture Capitalists

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Time from first contact ...  Read more

Fiscal Therapy

At a two-day "boot camp" for high-tech start-ups, CEOs thought they'd be learning how to attract Silicon Valley investors. What they got was even more import...  Read more

Upstarts: M.D. Entrepreneurs

Here's how sports physicians are cashing in on their association with professional athletes by branding high-end health products. Plus: a look at the rise of...  Read more

Today's 'Down Rounds' Bring Startups Pain

From The Wall Street Journal Online Fledgling companies are being forc...  Read more

Valley Legend's Biggest Road Show Ever

Venture capital icon Gib Myers is rallying support for an audacious new project: getting start-ups to give time and equity to non-profits -- before those sta...  Read more

The New-Boy Network

Inc. goes behind the scenes at Guru.com as it attempts to raise capital in the fast-paced world of Internet financing. Here's why whom you know is j...  Read more

The New-Boy Network

I Inc. /I goes behind the scenes at Guru.com as it attempts to raise capital in the fast-paced world of Internet financing....  Read more

Venture Capital Discovers The Mass Market

The new frontier for venture capital is low technology, and Michael Berolzheimer's Early Stages Co. is leading the way.  Read more

When Is a Law Firm Not a Law Firm?

Craig Johnson, founder of Venture Law Group, redefined what a law firm can do for a start-up by helping companies develop business plans, find financing, and...  Read more

Why Smart Companies Are Saying No To Venture Capital

It seemed, at first, like the logical next act in the classic entrepreneurial script. Having developed his new database software on his home-built Heathk...  Read more