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We Talk with Wes Schroll, CEO of Fetch Rewards, Softbank's latest Unicorn

On April 1, Madison, Wisconsin-based company Fetch Rewards became a unicorn, with a $210 million investment round lead by SoftBank VisionFund 2. EIX Editor in Chief Jon Eckhardt Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Jon Eckhardt

Media Attention Helps Private Equity Firms Attract Resources

New firms can attract resources by sending out signals about their quality. They do this because a new firm’s quality is often uncertain and hard to observe. But we don’t know much about what Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Tom Vanacker

Does it Matter if an Entrepreneur is Coachable?

Many venture capital firms, business accelerators and other investors see the strength of the founding team as an important predictor of whether their investment will pay off. No wonder that Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Kevin Bryan and András Tilcsik

Bankers or Brokers? For Favored Firms, VCs Invest More than Dollars

By Emily Pahnke, Ji Youn (Rose) Kim, Michael Howard and Warren Boeker Venture capitalists bankroll invention, but is signing checks the only contribution they make to the world of innovation? Our Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Emily Pahnke