The “fintech” revolution will end badly for most startups, according to veteran financial-services investor J. Christopher Flowers.
Zenefits banned alcohol in the office and also has warned employees to cut out crude behavior in the stairwells, as the startup tries to reverse its rambunctious culture.
WeWork is embarking on a growth spurt, with the help of nearly $1 billion in investment, as it rapidly expands around the world—and beyond mere office space.
The Homeland Security official discusses the potential impact of recent legislation.
Small-business owners turned less optimistic about their economic prospects in January as a tumultuous stock market and intensifying concerns over global growth took a toll on confidence.
Investors in India’s tech startups are becoming more discerning and tightfisted. As a result, startups raised $959 million in the final three months of 2015, roughly half of what they raised in the last quarter of the previous year.
From haircuts to dental cleanings, there are plenty of cheap services supplied by students in New York. At Floating Piano Factory, apprentice piano tunings start at $60—about half the typical rate.
Presidential candidates are wrestling over a basic workforce question: Should employees get paid time off to tend to newborn children, an acute illness or an ailing parent?
Public companies weren’t the only ones buying back stock last year.
Startups are betting they will be able to upend traditional livestock practices by growing table-ready meat from cells cultivated in steel tanks.
Shanghai is rolling out a new initiative to get venture-capital firms to take more risks: offering to bail out some investors if certain bets on tech startups go sour.
The U.S. government is about to get better at measuring the gig economy—or at least that’s its intention.
Low-cost tech and free software let even the smallest players create autonomous vehicles
Firms cover up policies investors won’t like with obfuscation and jargon—and often profit from it.
Study says their bosses are more likely to force long hours on workers and use threatening behavior
The social network can be a great place to promote a startup. Here’s how to do it right,
A sharp slide in public and private valuations for technology firms hung like a snow cloud over the World Economic Forum’s meeting as many investors and entrepreneurs wondered if the tech boom was finally cooling off.
Spouses may split up. But that doesn’t mean the business they ran together can’t survive.
Charlie Mars reinvented himself as an entrepreneur—and found success running his career himself.
Startups that offer generous perks earlier than that have a higher chance of going under