Editor’s note: Chuck Dietrich is chief executive of online presentation startup SlideRocket. Startup CEOs wear many hats. None, perhaps, is more important than that of “company pitchman.” In today’s ...

As a small-business owner, you can find yourself pitching lots of ideas to other businesses. Whether you're preparing a presentation for a service you want to provide to a corporation, or a proposal ...

I’ll never forget the day a top-tier Silicon Valley venture capitalist openly regretted having passed on a prior round of funding. We were back at the table in a future round, and they didn’t want to ...

If the odds of success were stacked against Daniela Blanco, she didn’t get the memo. Blanco fled Venezuela after the country’s economic collapse. While pursuing her Ph.D. in chemistry at NYU, she ...

My last keynote speech was for 2000 people at a conference in Florida on March 8th, 2020. By the end of that week, 11 speaking gigs canceled. By the end of April, my calendar was wiped clean. Like ...

Lyft’s highly-anticipated IPO roadshow kicked off this week, as company executives attempt to convince investors that it’s worth $23 billion. The banks that underwrite IPOs have a lot at stake in ...

Some startups are focused on making mental-health services more accessible to patients. Uwill zeroed in on ensuring college students can access those treatments. The company announced in May that it ...

A team of Farmer School students won the Cleveland Research Company Intercollegiate Stock Pitch Competition, held at the Farmer School of Business last week. The competition provides an opportunity ...