Startups

Starting a company is exciting, but it's also important to expect that setbacks and challenges will always pop up.  There is definitely no one-size-fits-all model, and entrepreneurs have to be agile and adapt to bumps in the road while staying authentic.

If you are a startup founder and are considering raising money or seeking funding, you have to be prepared to answer the following questions about your business.

Jake Carp, who co-founded Steppen in late 2020 with Cara Davies and Dave Slutzkin, shares what he learnt from the sale process of the business. 

Why would a candidate even entertain the idea of working for a company that has an eight out of 10 chance of failing in the next two years, asks Steve Grace.

Ben Armstrong of Archangel Ventures shares the two traits he has observed in top-performing teams and how they can be readily replicated.

Why Games Workshop and the Warhammer franchise may be the best capital-compounding business machine you’ve never heard of.

Hall Chadwick’s workspace did not signify anything unique or different about the business — nothing that would make it stand out from any other accounting practice. Here's what it did.

To succeed in an environment of high uncertainty, companies must become even better and more efficient at developing options for future advantage.

Several philanthropic foundations have formed an alliance focused on impact investing called the Foundation Impact Investors Group.

Why do some businesses break through $2 million in sales and progress toward $10 million and others don’t?

The founders of Judo Bank share their journey of securing investors from 2015 to 2019 and reveal how it is all about the ‘richness and reach’.

The author says, "we all have a relationship with money that plays a powerful role in the stories we tell ourselves, how we show up, and who we are when it’s on the table".