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GUEST: Historically, mature private companies relied on "growth" or late-stage venture firms for their last round, or rounds, before filing for IPO. That ecosystem has been disrupted over the last few years as large publ...

Many taxpayers are about to file tax returns with balances due on them. The IRS Collection Division attempts to collect delinquent taxes as inexpensively and rapidly as possible. Be proactive when you owe IRS. Do not ign...

Given that their business is typically the largest asset of business owners, you might assume they have a handle on the value of the business and how the business is performing.

The app stores are big jungles, making it hard for someone to find the app that is just right. By attacking that discovery problem, app monetization and distribution platform Appnext grew its revenues by 345 percent in 2...

GUEST: The Asia-Pacific region has been picking up some of the slack we've been encountering lately within the technology merger and acquisition (M&A) landscape. While US capital markets are tightening, tech M&A activity...

In a complaint filed last week in a Wisconsin federal court, leaders of a large atheist group renewed their quest to strike from the tax law a provision that has been in place since the Cold War, and that, not surprising...

Facebook's F8 developer conference takes place this Tuesday and Wednesday from the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. While the company hasn't publicly disclosed what it'll be revealing during its two-day event, here ar...

I recently completely a deep dive on the Internet of Things (IoT) space for one of my Red Rocket clients, and I was blown away with what I learned.  If we think the consumer internet as we know it is a big deal, IoT wil...

GUEST: Last week, we saw a torrent of news stories covering the launch of the DJI Phantom 4 and several WSJ articles about how drone investments have not delivered to full potential. As an early stage investor looking at...

Having a good mentor can be more valuable to a startup than funding

Saying Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary loves licensing deals is as big an understatement as saying Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban loves basketball. Over the past seven seasons on the ABC hit business reality show,...

Saying Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary loves licensing deals is as big an understatement as saying Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban loves basketball. Over the past seven seasons on the ABC hit business reality show,...

VK.com, a Russian social network that claims around 100 million unique monthly active users, has settled a legal battle with Warner Music Group (WMG) out of court. Both parties have signed a confidential agreement that p...

GUEST: When going from $0-10 million in sales, most tech entrepreneurs think there's only one path to raise growth capital for their startups: selling equity in their business. It's a model that has been reinforced by se...