Targeting the Right Venture Capitalists
There are many kinds of venture capitalists who invest in different types of opportunities. Some venture capitalists prefer to provide only seed capital; ... Read story
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley's Silver Lining
Today Silicon Valley represents a microcosm of the American Dream. In the Valley, we can become what we desire to be: a millionaire or the best circuit de... Read story
New Ways to Retain and Reward Employees (Hint: We're Not Talking Stock Options)
In the wake of media reports about abuse of stock options, some technology firms are rethinking the incentives they use to compensate valuable employees. Mea... Read story
Study: Silicon Valley Entrepreneurship Unique
March 27, 2007 -- Entrepreneurship rates in Silicon Valley continued to grow faster than the national average despite the dot-com bust, s... Read story
Business Plan Finalists Named
Pitches to offer cell-based transplants for stroke patients and a device for sending hand-written e-mails were among the top 10 finalists named in this ye... Read story
The Best Boomer Businesses
A provider of mobile hearing aid centers and the developer of a handheld blood analyzer each won $10,000 in this year's Silicon Valley Boomer Business Pla... Read story
Episode I: A New Beginning
Andrew Raskin, an otherwise sane New York company man, chronicles why he has flung himself into the mad world of Silicon Valley start-ups. Read story
Be Careful What You Wish For
Silicon Valley companies thought an act of Congress would solve their problems with Bill Lerach and his shareholder lawsuits. But the reforms may end up back... Read story
The Next Big Next Big Thing
Silicon Valley may think it has all the creative geniuses firmly ensconced in its back pocket, but it won't be long before the next big challenge pulls them ... Read story
The Good Deed Doers
Infoseek founder Steve Kirsch on philanthropy in the digital age. Read story
Silicon Valley's Dark Days
The mighty tech corridor is losing power. Literally. Read story
Silicon Valley Versus Route 128
A look at how companies are shaped by the business and social cultures around them. Read story
Letter From Silicon Valley: What's a Nice Systems Engineer Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
Every month a Silicon Valley club or hotel plays host to a networking party called the Layoff Lounge. Just another pink-slip party? Not really. Here's what h... Read story
Try Before You Buy
New company sends out complete versions of software programs for customers to try before they buy. Read story
Business, Bureaucrats Reinvent Local Gov't
A look at how an assemblage of local business leaders are teaming up with local government to effect a change. Read story
Letter from Silicon Valley: Success Story
If you're looking to put the proper spin on your company's story, you might want to take a cue from a screenplay or two. Read story
19 Blogs You Should Bookmark Right Now -- Michael Arrington
There are millions of blogs out there. And most of them aren't worth your time. So we scoured the Web and came up with a list of the smartest bloggers, who j... Read story
Valley Guy
Guy Kawasaki tells you where to meet and what to eat in Silicon Valley. Read story
The Eco-Advantage
Introducing the Green 50, a collection of entrepreneurial companies that are showing what it means to run good businesses, attack the most pressing problems ... Read story
Can You Judge a Biz by Its Color?
Race matters for entire companies now. Read story
Letter from Silicon Valley: Nothing Ventured
Just how sorry is the sorry state of fund-raising among tech companies? Our intrepid reporter went to a venture-capital mixer to find out. Read story
The Best 4 Small-Business Neighborhoods in America
Here's what entrepreneurs are looking for when selecting a community for start-ups, and what they're finding. Read story
FASB Limits Stock Options
What new stock option rules mean for you. Read story
The Best Places For Doing Business in America 2005
We examined 274 population centers, looking for job creation and other signs that businesses are thriving. Here's what we found. Read story
Solidarity Forever
Along with the crocuses and daffodils come tentative signs this spring of renewed labor union activity in the high-tech industry: * Led by organizer... Read story
November 1995
A short quote from the book Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure concerning the need for quick-thinking managers. Read story
Where Have All the Dot-Commers Gone?
Sitting behind the wheel of a taxicab. Wearing leather and wielding a whip. You never know where an ex-dot-commer will turn up next. Read story
Making Managerial Planning More Effective, By Louis A. Allen. Mcgraw-hill, 1221 Avenue Of The Americas, New York, Ny 10020; 307 Pp., $24.95.
The concept of management in this attempt to define individual contributions to short- and long-term corporate goals is 180 degrees removed from any Theor... Read story
It Takes a Cybervillage
An overview of three cities, Pittsburgh, Boulder, and Montreal, that experts believe could be hot spots for new-media industries. Read story
Storm Clouds Over Silicon Valley
As blind faith in the infallibility of high-tech companies falters, the era of unrestrained growth in the Valley may be over. Read story
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Trips to Hawaii, cash on the line, personal computers. You name it, you've got it -- if you're an engineer. And the newest way for companies to get this... Read story
Great Timing
If you were starting a company, you couldn't have picked a worse year than 1999. And yet a surprising number of this year's Inc. 500 companies did just that. Read story
The Defiant Ones
Europe has concluded that it must work harder to recognize and nurture growth businesses, and what that means to you. Read story
Stanford Preps for Silicon Valley
Stanford University's entrepreneurial internship program primes engineering students for aggressive recruitment by Silicon Valley companies. Read story
Clusters
Clusters are geographic concentrations of interconnected companies or institutions that manufacture products or deliver services to a particular field or ... Read story
How I Did It: Noreen King, CEO, Evolve Manufacturing Technologies
As told to Amy Gunderson Industry: Manufacturing 2006 Inc. 500 Ranking: Read story
Main Street VCs
A new breed of venture capital, coming soon to a town near you. Read story
The Enemy Within
An explanation of how the base of manufacturing suppliers is crumbling in the U.S. and how to reverse this trend. Read story
Why Investors Are Suddenly So Secretive
Why venture capitalists are increasingly choosing to keep their latest deals under wraps. Read story
Creative Recruiting Ideas
Although Silicon Valley firms are currently facing an unusually tough employee recruitment scene, they are much more accustomed to battling turnover and l... Read story
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