Institutional investors are taking over the nascent peer-to-peer lending industry, and in doing so, taking the “peer” out of the equation. For their part, “peer-to-peer” lending platforms like Lending Club, <a href="http://www.prosper.com/&quot; […]

Over a 10-year period ending in 2011, Harvard Business School professor Noam Wasserman researched roughly 10,000 founders, finding that by a company’s third round of funding, half of all original CEOs were gone, […]

Summit Partners said on Thursday that it has promoted Adam Britt, Robert Hassell and Jack Le Roy to principals on the firm’s credit team. Prior to all three joining Summit’s Boston office in 2010, Britt, Hassell […]

In 2002, during the worst of the aftermath of the dot-com bubble, the Silicon Valley events scene was dire. Audiences consisted of VCs, vendors and founders—but no customers—and it didn’t seem to matter. It was an […]