These Corporate Habits Can Kill A Startup
I hear many executives and professionals in large corporations talking about their dream of jumping ship, and starting their own company. What they don’t realize is that the longer they wait, the more...
View ArticleTake A Behind-The-Scenes Look At The Silicon Alley 100
Earlier today, we unveiled this year's Silicon Alley 100 -- a list ranking the coolest people in New York tech. SAI editor Alyson Shontell and Business Insider deputy editor Nicholas Carlson talk...
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A 34-Year-Old Ex-Apple Engineer Just Bought An NBA Team (AAPL)
Yesterday in New York, the NBA board of governors approved the sale of the Memphis Grizzlies basketball team to a 34-year-old former Apple engineer.Robert Pera, the CEO of Ubiquiti Networks, won't...
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Do Start-Ups Destroy Jobs In The Rest Of The Economy?
Albert, in response to your post “Thinking About Employment“, you’ve stumbled on a recurring theme in economics: if innovators are inventing new contraptions that can do the job of x people, won’t...
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CasaHop's Co-Founder Florent Peyre Leaves The 'Airbnb Killer' Just 6 Months...
Earlier this year, Paul Berry and other ex-Huffington Post executives created SoHo Tech Labs to launch and incubate startups. One of the first startups they launched was CasaHop, which was positioned...
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More Proof That Startups That Hire Fast Are More Likely To Crash And Burn
One of the most important decisions a startup makes is how fast they want to launch, and how big they want to be at that time. Some choose to hire employees right away, while others decide on a pilot...
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Star VCs Invest Millions In A Startup That Will Change How You Pay Your Phone...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Andreessen Horowitz is leading a $15.5 million round of venture funding for ItsOn Inc, a developer of software that supports more flexible mobile billing options like sponsored...
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EMC Acquires A Startup That Can Catch Cybercriminals In The Act (EMC)
EMC has bought one of the Valley's hottest up-and-coming security startups, Silver Tail Systems, for an undisclosed sum. The purchase is interesting for a bunch of reasons. Silver Tail was the...
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10 Startups That Will Change Your Future Life
The startup space has become increasingly crowded with companies trying to help you find dates, find good deals or connect with new people online. But what about the ones that have the potential to...
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The Strange Case Of A $38 Million Enterprise Company That's Gone Missing
Just a few months ago, Pano Logic, an enterprise tech startup seemed to be have a bright future replacing oldfashioned PCs with up-to-the-minute cloud technology. Today, the company has shut down, its...
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How Silicon Alley Startups Quickly Recovered In Sandy's Aftermath
It’s now been three days since Hurricane Sandy has passed through New York, and many homes and offices are still without power. But in spite of these circumstances, many of New York’s Silicon Alley...
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Stanford Grads Still Get More VC And Angel Funding Than Anyone Else
CB Insights recently released it's first ever University Entrepreneurship Report, tracking the alumni entrepreneurship activity of six top universities (Stanford, Harvard, UC Berkeley, NYU, U Penn,...
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Hurricane Sandy Revealed Some Huge Problems Tech Founders Need To Start Solving
This past weekend my wife and I tried to get involved with relief efforts for Sandy. We used Twitter and Facebook and found organizations who needed help, and found lists of supplies that were needed...
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There Is Such A Thing As Over-Networking
As a general rule of thumb in life, knowing the right people socially never hurt anyone in achieving their dreams.In the startup world it may be more fashionable to discuss this reality using the...
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How To Create The Fastest Growing Media Company In The World
On March 26, 2012, a new media startup called Upworthy launched.Upworthy is a 14-person site that tries to make meaningful information and pictures go viral.Today, it is the fastest growing media...
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Meet The 'Obama Startup' That's Taking On Microsoft And Salesforce.com
It turns out, some political campaigns are good for more than negative TV ads. Obama's last campaign gave rise to a hot startup, NationalField, with a little help from Facebook cofounder Chris...
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The Surreal Life Of A Tech Cofounder: He's One Of The Richest People In His...
Imagine being on a first-name basis with the leader of your country.That's a threshold Scott Farquhar crossed a few weeks ago and it felt surreal, he told Business Insider.Farquhar is the 32-year-old...
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Ron Conway And San Francisco Startups Win Big In The Election, Saving New...
Ron Conway has actively encouraged the San Francisco tech community to get involved with the government. Yesterday his hard work paid off.The city of San Francisco voted in a new tax policy Conway...
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Art.sy Is Changing The Way The World Views Art
Do you like Vincent van Gogh? That means you'll also probably like art by Henri Rousseau, Edouard Vuillard, Maurice Utrillo and even contemporary artists like John Currin and Laurie Simmons—artists you...
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When Google Wants To Buy Your Startup, It Sends You An Email That Looks Like...
In 2007, Google reached out to a startup it wanted to buy called Zlio.Zlio was founded in 2006. It let anyone open an online store, even if they had nothing of their own to sell. Stores could be...
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