Venture Capital: A Practice Guidebook for Capital-Seeking Business, Owners, Managers and Advisors is a complete book covering the basics of venture capital funding, including a overview of venture ...

Under California law, noncompete covenants are generally unenforceable due to California’s strong public policy against restraints on trade. However, there are certain narrow circumstances in the ...

Andrew Warner is founder of Mixergy, which runs a popular series of technology networking events in Los Angeles. Andrew has recently been interviewing interesting entrepreneurs and thought leaders.

Brian Ring is program director of the Greater Los Angeles Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® program. EOY Awards are given to entrepreneurs who demonstrate extraordinary success in the areas of ...

I love lists. My personal catnip is reading through an arbitrary ranking of anecdotes, experiences and pop culture. Blame social media, my short attention span…whatever. Just feed me listicles and don ...

Social Media, like Global Warming, has now left doubters behind. According to the brand-ranking database Engagement DB, companies embracing social media grew revenues by 18 percent in the past 12 ...

(Serena Ehrlich, SVP Social Media at Startup Army, gives a quick primer on using social media to promote your startup. This article was originally posted on the firm ...

Stating the sometimes forgotten obvious: A business is a living entity that embodies many functioning organs. It performs the best and is healthy when all the elements are working together in harmony.

How do entrepreneurs identify and manage the personal connections that are central to their new ventures? Perhaps more importantly, what network-building strategies are most effective? For the last ...

With a growing business, it’s so easy to allow things to slip through the cracks. I have lost clients because of promises that were not kept due to the fact that somebody forgot to do something. I ...

Marc Averitt, a venture capitalist at Orange County-based Okapi Venture Capital, and a frequent blogger about the business of venture capital and entrepeneurship. This is a slightly edited and ...

For the past 20 years, I have had a front row seat in watching the evolution of the angel and venture capital sector from both the legal and venture finance perspectives. I have witnessed how the ...