Coming up with a business idea is easy. But coming up with a great business idea? That's a challenge. An even bigger challenge is taking that idea and turning it into a viable business opportunity.

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Venture capitalists are constantly on the hunt for the next big startup. While many visionaries have ideas about what kind of products or services they would like to offer consumers, securing funding ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Ventures are business experiments. You formulate hypotheses about a problem to be solved, a ...

The idea stage of a business venture has no single special name. The idea phase actually breaks down into several important steps relating to facets of small and large business development. Each step ...

FARGO - Arthur Ventures, a Fargo-based venture capital firm that uses financial muscle to help fledgling companies grow and prosper, is itself growing. Formed in 2008 with an initial fund of $11 ...

In the three years that WSU Ventures has been in existence, the organization has made noticeable strides, according to CEO Mark Torline. Born in 2014, the purpose of the organization is to assist ...

Planetary Resources co-founder Eric Anderson talks about asteroids at a 2012 news conference in Seattle. Anderson’s latest venture, Idea.com, has won $500,000 in investments. (GeekWire photo) The ...

NEW YORK, Oct. 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Big Idea Ventures and Mars Petcare, together with partners AAK, Bühler, and Givaudan, have selected three pioneering startups for the 2025 Next Generation ...

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Idea CCR (Corporate Credit Recovery), a platform managed by IDeA Capital Funds SGR (“IDeA”) developed with support and funding from the anchor investor Bayside Capital (“H.I.G.

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