The 22 Best New Startups
A lot of companies launched this year. A few really stood out.We asked tech executives, founders, and investors about their favorite new companies.Here are 22 of the best apps and startups that...
View Article8 Easy Steps To Getting Hired By A Startup
Want to land a job at a small business or a startup?Many job seekers do: In the average small business there's usually less bureaucracy, greater opportunities to step outside defined roles... and if...
View ArticleAOL Founder Steve Case Predicts What The Next Internet Revolution Will Look Like
Fred Wilson, a Union Square Ventures partner and a prominent investor in companies like Zynga and Twitter, recently argued that it's harder for consumer startups to get VC funding because the industry...
View ArticleWhy We Should Should Invest In More Women-Owned Startups [INFOGRAPHIC]
Though progress is slow, women are starting to get more and more involved in the startup world. They're on more founding teams, and are joining boards of directors at a faster rate than ever...
View Article7 Bold Predictions For 2013 From The World's Top VCs
A year ago, few would have predicted that a pre-revenue company could have been acquired for $1 billion, or that start-ups in the middle of the country would have access to Internet 100 times faster...
View ArticleHere Are The Hot New Technologies That Will Get Hundreds Of Millions Of...
In 2012, the funding pendulum swung away from consumer Internet companies and back toward startups that serve businesses—enterprise technology, as it's known in the business.The focus will stay there...
View ArticleFacebook's Lead Engineer Shares What It's Like Working At The Largest Social...
At Facebook, Andrew Bosworth is just known as "Boz." With his shaved head and tattoos, he looks pretty badass.When he's not coding new features like News Feed, a once-controversial ticker of updates...
View Article600 VCs And CEOs Made These Predictions For 2013
Dow Jones and the National Venture Capital Association surveyed 600 venture capitalists and CEOs, and came up with these eight predictions:Enterprise and healthcare startups will see more investment,...
View ArticleHow The Search For The God Particle Led To This Cool Startup
Four years ago, three scientists and friends were working on one of the world's greatest mysteries: the search for the God particle.They didn't know they would soon leave physics and become cofounders...
View ArticleThis Family Man Quit His Steady Job At Citigroup To Dive Into Startups
After seven years helping Citigroup launch new financial ventures, Jay Bhattacharya got the itch.A veteran of the first dotcom boom and bust, he'd found a safe perch at Citi. But he found he wanted to...
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: $1 Billion In Seed Funding Will Be Vaporized As 1,000...
There's been a lot of talk lately about a "Series A Crunch" with new startup funding. But according to CB Insights, the real problem is startups being abandoned after raising a seed round.Here's a look...
View ArticleA Tech Investor Calls For The Death Of Pageviews And Uniques
Top early-stage venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is sooo over traditional audience metrics.The firm, also known as A16Z, is not impressed by a startup's monthly pageview or unique-visitor count...
View ArticleFred Wilson Is Not Happy With Underperforming Startups In His Portfolio
Fred Wilson, the most influential venture capitalist in New York, sounds frustrated with some of his startups. In a post on his site A VC, he tells startups (and everyone, really) to quit screwing...
View ArticleINSTANT MBA: Hire For Attitude, Not Skill
Today's advice comes from Alexis Dormandy, founder of the social recommendation sharing startup LoveThis:"What I usually see is you tend to fire people for attitude and hire people for skills. When...
View ArticleThis Site Mocks You For Having 'First-World Problems,' And Silicon Valley For...
These days, a lot of money and work in Silicon Valley goes into building mundane things like sharing apps and social games.Australian aerospace engineer Stuart Kearney and his friend Eric Stern created...
View ArticleINTEL'S BUSINESS PLAN FROM 1968: In Case You Needed Proof That Execution Is...
Intel is a global mega-corporation with $50+ billion in revenue, 100,000 employees, and a $100 billion market cap.It has been a fixture of the tech industry for so long that it seems as though it has...
View ArticleOne Theory About Why The Tech Startup Scene Is Boring Right Now
Technology's loudest, and most entertaining, blogger, Michael Arrington has been pretty quiet all year.Arrington, as you may recall, was forced out of TechCrunch, the tech site he founded, when he...
View ArticleWill 2013 Be Harder For Startups Than 2012?
tl;dr: Fuck, I don’t know. I’m not in the prediction business. But plan for it. And behave accordingly.A lot of people have been talking about how 2013 will be harder for startups and fast growing...
View ArticleVenture Capitalist Fred Wilson Just Did The Hardest And Smartest Thing Any...
Venture capitalist Fred Wilson, of Union Square Ventures, has helped his firm post some of the best returns in the entire VC industry over the past five years.The firm's performance has been nothing...
View ArticleZendesk CEO Shares What Every Startup Should Know About Winning With Customer...
Customer service is absolutely essential for businesses, especially small ones. If they have any hope of surviving, they have to get customers to come on board and stay. Great service is the key to...
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