Venture Capital

The success stories of Silicon Valley startups and their growth made a big change in business paradigm worldwide. Tech savvies tend to start their own company and investors are more exit-oriented than before, giving up the dividend approach of traditional businesses. Mentors and startup consultants also lead them to negotiate on valuation. In this case, the potential investor seeks for less valuation, while the startup and previous investors fight for higher valuation of the company. Unfortunately, the scholars in entrepreneurship…

The trend in entrepreneurship and startup activities has been shifting in the last decades. Concepts such as lean startup, customer development, and business model canvas, were introduced to the world of entrepreneurship and shorter pitches replaced long business plans. The one-minute pitch has been increasingly used among investors and in business competition events, however, many technopreneurs have still problem presenting their business idea in such a short time. They believe that the innovation and the complexity of the business idea…

Getting into a deal with a venture capital firm is the integral part of fund raising for most entrepreneurial firms. Many companies and entrepreneurs each day contact the venture capitalists in order to get a financial support for their firm’s growth. As a result, dozens of inquiries are heading to VC firms, from which some should be precisely handpicked.

The recent global economic crisis lead to a controversial trend against the one-percenters and the fact that their properties constitute the majority of the world’s wealth. The popularity of this idea was not only limited to the occupied Wall Street campaigns, but it also grew so fast that even Barack Obama used this trend as one of his main policies in the late 2012 by ending the tax cut of wealthy Americans in order to get better support from the…