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Luxury fashion brands are shedding the concept that they must limit where their goods are sold to retain the waft of exclusivity, and startups are jumping at the chance to sell the wares through websites and mobile applications.
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More toy companies are rolling out new products designed for young girls that tap into an influential marketing concept: the aspirational allure of an entrepreneur.
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Jet.com Inc. is joining the ranks of the world’s most valuable e-commerce startups—and it hasn’t even opened for business. The new online marketplace said it has closed $140 million in a new round of financing.
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Optimism among small business owners fell back only a bit in January and job growth remained solid, according to a report released Tuesday.
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Last year, 243 startup firms raised more than $104 million on AngelList, a crowdfunding site that makes it possible for small investors trying to get a piece of Silicon Valley startups.
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More entrepreneurs have tried to bootstrap their companies in recent years, avoiding outside investors. Now, many of them are confronting the downside of that strategy: a lack of connections in the clubby venture-capital world.
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E2open Inc. agreed to be acquired by private-equity firm Insight Venture Partners for $273 million, ending its search for a buyer to revitalize the technology company.
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Chinese social network Renren has led a $10 million investment in a U.S.-based startup that uses big data to forecast legislation.
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Golden Krust, the Jamaican-food chain whose yellow awnings dot New York’s Caribbean neighborhoods, is the city’s biggest locally owned restaurant chain. Now CEO Lowell Hawthorne wants to make Jamaican beef patties as ubiquitous as the burrito.
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Music streaming service Spotify is working with Goldman Sachs on a new round of private fundraising, potentially putting off an initial public offering for another year.
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States and municipalities have long used tax incentives to lure new businesses. But when taxpayer-funded incentives benefit a new rival, existing local businesses can get angry.
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Startups are combining psychology and big data to analyze people’s faces and potentially discover their deepest emotions—while amassing an enormous visual database that is breeding privacy concerns.
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Companies that rely on freelance labor describe their workers as micro-entrepreneurs. But lawsuits, protests and forums suggest that many flexible laborers feel less enthusiastic about the new work model.
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The recommendations focus on consumer-facing technologies, but can be useful for any CIO whose company inevitably touches, or will touch, the IoT supply chain.
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The trick: Finance the startup with your customers’ cash—instead of going hat in hand to bankers or investors.
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The odds are stacked against small beer makers. Here’s how they thrive.
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Haystack and rival parking apps have been banned in several cities. But some apps that run up against public sensibility—like people auctioning off parking spaces—are actually good ideas.
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Some brewery owners are foaming with rage about “beer architects” who create a recipe and then get it brewed under contract.
Wall Street Journal on Small Business: The one industry that may be getting over-populated with entrepreneurs; how ONLINE education groups are pressing traditional higher ed; and the benefits of those quick-fire surveys of employees.
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Women tend to launch businesses with less financing than men and have more difficulty raising funding. But early data suggest that women are outperforming men in raising money via crowdfunding sites, such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo.
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Europe’s unemployment crisis has compelled hundreds of thousands of people to try to reinvent themselves as entrepreneurs. But these inexperienced business operators are flying into harsh headwinds.
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Jeff Raider, co-founder of online shaving company Harry’s, talks about new hires, dealing with investors and coming up with the perfect name.
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Facebook acquired a voice-recognition startup that claims to “turn speech into actionable data,” a move that could give the social network more information for targeted ads.
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Tom Staggs is the newly appointed chief operating officer of Disney and the leading candidate to succeed Chief Executive Robert Iger when he steps down in 2018.
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Starting a business is a lot like becoming a parent. Not only do you have to prepare for your start-up emotionally and financially, but you have to be committed to its constant needs until it's mature enough to hum along on its own. And even then (much like a child) it will always need you in some capacity, no matter how old it gets.
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When should a startup seek its first investment? What should founders know before offering equity? Are pitch-offs and demo days effective? Entrepreneurs and startup investors share their views.
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American Express and Costco Wholesale are ending their 16-year relationship, a surprise move that pummeled AmEx’s stock price and will trigger a major upheaval in the card industry.
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Federal funding has been pulled from the National Runners’ and Walkers’ Health Study. Here are five reasons why the running industry should subsidize the study.
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French cosmetics giant L’Oréal said Thursday its sales in the fourth quarter bounced back, boosted by a stronger dollar, giving the company reason to be optimistic for the year ahead.
