Videos

William Sahlman, professor at Harvard Business School, maintains that entrepreneurs must manage the relationship between risk and reward, illustrating his point with the example of ...

Jason Green, Founding Partner at Emergence Capital, suggests that agents are generally not used to help raise funds in an early stage company although they ...

Andy Friere, Co-founder and CEO of Axialent, argues that what leaders do--not what they say--defines the organization's culture. Friere suggests that most leaders are not ...

Andy Friere, Co-founder and CEO of Axialent, describes the customer-focused culture archetype, one of the five basic cultural archetypes into which organizations fall: 1) Achievement, 2) Innovation, 3) ...

Dell talks about how he setup a board of directors to raise capital for Dell, Inc. After initial talks with investors at Goldman Sachs, he ...

Dell describes what he looks for his board of directors to do in a business that changes rapidly. He requires each director to select and ...

David Frankel, Founding Partner at Altirah Capital, offers his advice about what entrepreneurs should expect and what they should avoid in the term sheets offered ...

Jason Green, Founding Partner at Emergence Capital, describes the common situation of an entrepreneur raising money and receiving questions about the expected valuation for the ...

Dell talks about some of the reasons behind Dell, Inc. going public. The transition was done primarily to raise more capital, attract more people, and ...

William Sahlman, professor at Harvard Business School, provides an example of opportunity recognition by relating the story of how John Osher, the creator of the Spin Pop, leveraged his experience ...

Dell explains the culture and dynamics of Dell, Inc. during its early years. The company was run by hardworking, versatile people who were action-orientated and ...

Dell cautions against forming very close friendships in a company. He believes this blinds entrepreneurs from objectively assessing the work-environment of the company. At the ...