Mckinsey and Company

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Henrik Henriksson, CEO of H2 Green Steel, talks about the challenges and successes in founding a green business start-up and out-executing peers in a competitive environment.

Start-ups 124

Start-ups 124

Mckinsey and Company

DECEMBER 20, 2023

How do you find and keep the best salespeople at a start-up? Dominikus Kirchhoff, former managing director at Choco, discusses his recipe for doing just that.

Start-ups 126

Start-ups 126

Mckinsey and Company

JULY 24, 2024

In the post-COVID-19 era, investors pinch their pennies.

Start-ups 133

Start-ups 133

NYT M&A

MARCH 18, 2025

The acquisition could make the Silicon Valley giant a bigger force in cybersecurity, and arrives months after an earlier round of talks collapsed.

Start-ups 143

Start-ups Mergers & Acquisitions 143

Financial Times M&A

JANUARY 16, 2024

Buyers return after secondary market for private shares was hit by higher interest rates

Start-ups 145

Start-ups Marketability 145

Mckinsey and Company

OCTOBER 11, 2024

How can a climate tech company get funding—and scale up—quickly? The Climate Brick, an open-source manual for entrepreneurs and investors, aims to provide some answers.

Start-ups 126

Start-ups 126

NYT M&A

MARCH 19, 2025

The move is a bet that Amperes chips can begin playing a significant role in data centers for creating artificial intelligence.

Start-ups 115

Start-ups Mergers & Acquisitions 115

NYT M&A

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The digital-media company, which has plunged in value, is selling the unit to Ntwrk at a significant discount from its 2021 purchase price.

Start-ups 138

Start-ups Mergers & Acquisitions 138

Mckinsey and Company

MARCH 10, 2025

Most promising mobility start-ups fizzle out before they can scale their operations. With billions of dollars in investment at stake, they need a better path to growth.

Start-ups 82

Start-ups 82

Financial Times M&A

AUGUST 5, 2024

Executives at Abu Dhabi’s $300bn fund lead restructurings and management changes as valuations sink

Start-ups 110

Start-ups 110

Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 4, 2022

While the period up to 2018 was marked by an absence of ESG and sustainability focused regulatory pressure, in the period since, there have been efforts across the globe to ensure investors, financiers and companies pursue more sustainable business practices. more…).

Start-ups 340

Start-ups Finance Marketability 340

Financial Times M&A

AUGUST 1, 2024

Department of Justice has increased scrutiny of the chipmaker’s power in the emerging sector

Start-ups 110

Start-ups 110

Financial Times M&A

AUGUST 6, 2024

Swiss drugmaker examines options for Flatiron Health after acquisition has disappointed

Start-ups 105

Start-ups 105

Mckinsey and Company

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The CEO and co-founder of Arbol discusses how the insurtech fills gaps in insurance coverage with parametric solutions powered by AI while drawing from a diverse array of expertise.

Start-ups 110

Start-ups 110

NYT M&A

APRIL 23, 2025

The Dispatch, a right-of-center political news and commentary start-up, plans to keep the legal news website available at no cost. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Start-ups 138

Start-ups Mergers & Acquisitions 138

Financial Times M&A

APRIL 27, 2025

Music samples group Splice will buy London-based Spitfire Audio for its library of orchestral sounds

Start-ups 104

Start-ups 104

Financial Times M&A

MARCH 24, 2025

Vacation rental marketplace Vacasa is latest struggling tech group to be caught between Wall Street titans

Start-ups 99

Start-ups eCommerce 99

Financial Times M&A

AUGUST 25, 2024

Slowdown in public listings and takeovers means staff and investors are selling shares for cheap on secondary market

Start-ups 106

Start-ups Marketability 106

Appraisers Blog

APRIL 26, 2025

Since conservatorship, saying the FHFA is like a babysitter for Fannie Mae doesnt quite capture it its more like hiring a babysitter who shows up, dumps a five-pound bag of Skittles in the kids lap, hands them a pack of matches for “entertainment,” and then congratulates themselves for providing a structured environment.

Appraisal 98

Appraisal Start-ups Marketability 98

NYT M&A

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The billionaire is leading a group of investors in the unsolicited offer, which complicates the start-ups plan to change its nonprofit status.

Start-ups 145

Start-ups Mergers & Acquisitions 145

NYT M&A

MARCH 28, 2025

Javice faked much of her customer list before selling her start-up, Frank, to the bank. Federal prosecutors convinced a jury that Ms.

Start-ups 145

Start-ups Banking Mergers & Acquisitions 145

Harvard Corporate Governance

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

And that means you need to start it early. In fact, the board should start planning for the next CEO from the first day a new one steps into the job. The question is, how do you start so early? And how do you nurture them to ensure they’re ready to step up when the time comes? How do you find high-potential candidates?

Start-ups 240

Start-ups 240

Appraisers Blog

APRIL 25, 2025

I told the builder that “ready for occupancy” meant that the buyer could back his U-Haul up to the house and start unloading furniture. And, oh, I’m estimating that about half of the bids I get reek of fraud the moment I get the bid and start researching the property and its market. I mean, how hard is it?

Start-ups 98

Start-ups Appraisal Marketability 98

Viking Mergers

APRIL 10, 2023

Yet, despite these obstacles, new business owners are successfully paving their way to success by starting a new franchise, acquiring an existing business, or launching a venture from scratch. Investment It’s true that buying an existing business almost always requires more capital upfront than starting your own.

Start-ups 246

Start-ups Finance 246

Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 25, 2023

From the start, Uber racked up heavy losses. If its business model never added up, how did Uber come to dominate the market for urban transportation? But in hindsight it has become clear that Uber’s low fares and comparatively attractive driver pay were made possible only by massive venture capital subsidies.

Start-ups 260

Start-ups Marketability 260

Mckinsey and Company

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Mobility is a fundamental part of daily life and ripe for constant change and innovation. This report looks at global mobility trends and investment in smart mobility across geographies and technologies.

Start-ups 99

Start-ups Technology 99

Financial Times M&A

APRIL 3, 2025

UK supercar brand to widen model range following acquisition by Abu Dhabis CYVN

Start-ups 72

Start-ups 72

Mckinsey and Company

JULY 24, 2024

Demystifying the narrative around five fundamental elements will help start-ups and scale-ups grow efficiently and continuously.

Start-ups 138

Start-ups 138

Viking Mergers

APRIL 3, 2023

Every year, millions of Americans give up their jobs in Corporate America to pursue the dream of owning a business. You can get started by reading this Viking blog post discussing current M&A trends and which business sectors have the best outlook.) Eventually, you will identify a prospective business and meet with the sellers.

Start-ups 244

Start-ups Finance Marketability 244

Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Starting in January 2021, the U.S. Fueled by the rise of zero-commission trading (popularized by Robinhood) and online coordination through social media sites—such as Reddit—retail investors engaged in an active “buy” campaign to push up the stock prices of companies like GameStop and AMC to stratospheric levels.

Start-ups 268

Start-ups Marketability 268

NYT M&A

MARCH 28, 2025

Musk said the deal valued xAI, his artificial intelligence start-up, at $80 billion, and X at $30 billion.

Start-ups 145

Start-ups Mergers & Acquisitions 145

NYT M&A

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Workers have begun a 48-hour walkout, the first in 50 years for the outlet, over a proposal to sell The Observer to Tortoise Media, a digital media start-up.

Start-ups 140

Start-ups Mergers & Acquisitions 140

Financial Times M&A

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Online education company was once India’s most valuable start-up but now plans asset sales to settle debts

Start-ups 143

Start-ups 143

NYT M&A

MAY 11, 2024

The women’s media company, which started as a raunchy college blog, is a rare financial success story — and on the White House’s radar. Now, it’s wrestling with how to grow up alongside its readers.

Start-ups 132

Start-ups Mergers & Acquisitions 132

Mckinsey and Company

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Investing in start-ups can help you tap external innovation, as long as you avoid the pitfalls.

Start-ups 138

Start-ups Corporate Finance Finance 138

Mckinsey and Company

JANUARY 27, 2023

Digital-native start-ups and healthcare incumbents can both play important roles in building and scaling digital therapeutics to improve the management of chronic health conditions.

Start-ups 140

Start-ups 140

Mckinsey and Company

MAY 23, 2024

Leading a rapidly growing start-up presents distinct challenges. Developing the leaders to effectively lead hypergrowth organizations requires founders and senior executives to answer four key questions.

Start-ups 128

Start-ups 128