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 125

Start-ups 125

Mckinsey and Company

JULY 24, 2024

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

Start-ups 132

Start-ups 132

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 141

Start-ups Mergers & Acquisitions 141

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 125

Start-ups 125

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 81

Start-ups 81

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

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 129

Start-ups Mergers & Acquisitions 129

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 101

Start-ups Mergers & Acquisitions 101

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 109

Start-ups 109

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

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

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 144

Start-ups Banking Mergers & Acquisitions 144

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 94

Start-ups eCommerce 94

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

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 101

Start-ups 101

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

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

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

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 126

Start-ups Mergers & Acquisitions 126

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

Musings on Markets

JUNE 2, 2025

Since the ratings downgrade happened after close of trading on a Friday, there was concern that markets would wake up on the following Monday (May 19) to a wave of selling, and while that did not materialize, the rest of the week was a down week for both stocks and US treasury bonds, especially at the longest end of the maturity spectrum.

Risk Premium 116

Risk Premium Marketability Start-ups Risk-free Rate 116

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 131

Start-ups Mergers & Acquisitions 131

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

Brian DeChesare

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Corporate finance is fine if you’re in it to advance up the ladder over many years/decades while having a reasonable work/life balance. based roles will start in the $70 – $90K range and advance to the $200 – $250K range at the Director level. Can we speed up the data consolidation processes? Your total compensation in U.S.-based

Corporate Finance 105

Corporate Finance Finance Treasury Banking 105

Mckinsey and Company

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Africa’s fintech start-ups are leveraging mobile technology and innovative platforms to transform digital banking. We spoke with Ashraf Sabry, founder and CEO of Fawry, about the sector’s potential.

Start-ups 138

Start-ups Banking Technology 138

Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 19, 2022

Starting from the premise that the optimal number of regulations is not zero (and I recognize that there may be those who do not start from that premise), I want to enlist your help as we think through what is the right balance in regulating the private markets, and what those rules should look like. more…).

Start-ups 211

Start-ups Finance Marketability Equity 211

Mckinsey and Company

MARCH 19, 2024

The managing partner and founder of Emerald Technology Ventures shares how the company works with start-ups and corporations in navigating the dynamic world of climate tech.

Start-ups 135

Start-ups Technology 135

Appraisers Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Where do you come up with these wild ideas? When a father and sons moving truck drives by on the road do you spill your coffee and start cursing every time? Nepotism for independent 1099’s who earn less than fast food workers and are actively discriminated against by both private industry and government? Good ole boys?

Appraisal 98

Appraisal Start-ups 98

Mckinsey and Company

MARCH 19, 2024

Despite market slowdown and funding woes, some agriculture technology start-ups still retain high value. Here’s how investors can identify and pursue these opportunities in time.

Start-ups 127

Start-ups Technology Marketability Equity 127

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 127

Start-ups 127

Mckinsey and Company

JUNE 2, 2025

Europes tech start-ups and scale-ups are gaining momentum. New research highlights the actions that could turn todays progress into sustained scale.

Start-ups 67

Start-ups Equity 67

Financial Times M&A

JANUARY 1, 2025

Group emerges as crucial backer of start-ups seeking to gain from the tech revolution its chips are powering

Start-ups 111

Start-ups 111

Financial Times M&A

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Investors hit by losses following billionaire’s takeover of social media platform reap rewards from shares in his AI start-up

Start-ups 111

Start-ups 111