Entrepreneurship

If you want to be successful, you have to harness the talent. The top private equity firms have a genius for hiring superior talent. All organizations need great people, but PE measures talent with one test only: performance. It’s not that private equity firms are heartless. Rather, their three- to five-year time horizon doesn’t allow […]

This simple question can reframe how you sell yourself — and selling yourself is the only way to be successful in today’s economy.

In 1984 the express delivery company Aramex had launched several small offices in the Middle East, hoping to become the first courier company based in...

Too many entrepreneurs find themselves emotionally unprepared for the big moment.

I’ve just been rereading Daniel Pink’s famous 1997 Fast Company article on “Free Agent Nation.” It has withstood the test of time pretty danged well. In 1997, Pink had recently left a job as Vice President Al Gore’s speechwriter to strike out on his own, and discovered (or decided, if you prefer) that he was […]

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Should an entrepreneur scale up his business across several countries or focus on the largest one?

Nathan Furr, professor of entrepreneurship at BYU's Marriott School of Management, explains why innovation requires a new set of management practices.

Husband-and-wife entrepreneurs fight over who should stay home with the kids.

Times change and markets transform themselves overnight. The half-life of common wisdom is shorter than ever. But top private equity firms have distilled a set of institutional habits that boost the likelihood of their success. What’s critical to this success? Attitude. PE leaders take pains to foster a “results-oriented mind-set”. In short, that means creating […]

There are five ways companies tend to think about it. One is better than the others.

It’s time to stop treating the situation as a short-term crisis.

Investment in FemTech - diagnostic tools, products, and services related to women's health - has exploded over the past decade. The Dobbs decision threatens...

Large-scale planning isn't the answer.

The void beyond Earth has become an exciting frontier for entrepreneurial ventures. SpaceX, Blue Origin, and scads of other companies are pursuing commercial...

It's not enough to be lean.

Photography: David Becker/Getty Images Nobu Matsuhisa learned how to make sushi in his native Japan and how to spice it up working as a young chef in Peru and Argentina. He ran a few ill-fated restaurants before finding success with Matsuhisa, in Beverly Hills, and Nobu, in New York. A customer, the actor Robert De […]

Five things to know.

You don’t have to be Amazon to compete on technology.

As a venture capitalist, I am often asked for my views on why some entrepreneurs succeed and others fail. Obviously, there are no cut-and-dried answers to that question. Still, a few general observations about how I evaluate new businesses should shed some light on what I think it takes to make an entrepreneurial venture thrive […]