To compete, the venture capital fund sticks to its thesis, searches for companies solving urban challenges, and customizes success metrics.

Sonja Perkins on why she calls customers when researching a company, and looks for entrepreneurs in unexpected places.

The founders of Clean Energy Venture Group on picking the right startup, managing employees, and surviving a recession.

MIT Sloan research finds top-quartile investors ink better deals and record better returns. Other investors, not so much.

Successful companies tend to set up shop in Delaware and protect their ideas.

And what VCs will ask to avoid the "cardinal sin" of startup investing.

Research shows investors take on riskier projects in a hot market. Here’s how entrepreneurs should adjust when that market cools.

New research shows big data benefits large firms over small ones.

Steve Marcus looks for big ideas in their earliest stages.

Bonus insight: Change isn’t propelled by organizational structure.