Conferences. As entrepreneurs and VCs, you’ve got a chance to go to dozens of them each year. Often, the ROI on attending these events are questionable at best.
The Startable blog has some guidelines to help you determine whether a conference is worth it. The author shares three reasons why he, as a VC, attends certain [...]

Peter Hebert of PreHub, an online forum for private equity, asks a simple question this week: Why don’t innovative VCs innovate?
For a group priding itself on identifying, nurturing and commercializing innovation, it’s ironic that the venture capital industry resides in the relative backcountry of financial innovation.
Considering all of modern finance’s experimentation and ingenuity (for better [...]

Peter Singer, the editor-in-chief for Solid State Technology magazine, has a pair of articles this month pointing out how recessions and other economic downturns can be fertile times for innovation and research and development.
A recent report from Greentech Media and the Prometheus Institute, titled Photovoltaics Innovation in North America, notes that tightening credit markets and [...]

Two Arkansas Business columns this week carry guidance on negotiating the new year and these though economic times.
First, Jim Karrh shares marketing knowledge that everyone needs to know for the new year. The keys revolve around knowing your customer and, first, your newest customers:
It is easy to track overall numbers of new customers, but do [...]