Startups Should Watch Out For These Poor Leadership Behaviors
Many professionals in business, from startups to multi-nationals, assume that team leader or executive is an appointed position, and the skills come with the title. In reality, leadership is best...
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A 9 Year Old Just Blew Past Her $829 Kickstarter Goal To Build Her Own Video...
Mackenzie Wilson, age 9, has a score to settle with her older brothers. They didn't think she could build her own video game, so she went ahead and launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $829 to...
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The 10 Hottest Startups In Australia Right Now
Australia is bustling with hot startups."There are a bunch of companies now that are choosing to stay (in Australia)," Rebekah Campbell, founder and CEO of Australia-based Posse, tells Business...
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A Startup Dream Come True
When Nick D'Aloisio was fifteen, he founded Summly.Summly is a mobile news aggregation app that doesn't make any money, but no matter. Today, D'Aloisio sold his startup to Yahoo for close to $30...
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VC: 'Pretty Much Every Seed Stage Startup You Haven't Heard About Recently Is...
Lately, a lot of startups have closed their doors because they've run out of cash. Investors are less willing to give them money now than they were one year ago, thanks in part to Facebook's...
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17-Year-Old Startup Millionaire: Want to Be LIke Me? 'Just Do It'
LONDON, March 25 (Reuters) - Got a tech idea and want to make a fortune before you're out of your teens? Just do it, is the advice of the London schoolboy who's just sold his smartphone news app to...
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How Mens' Reactions To 'Donglegate' Show Sexism Exists In The Tech Industry
It's no secret that the tech industry is dominated by men. And now, it's also no secret that it can be hard to be a woman in tech.Last week, a joke about dongles and forking at a tech conference led to...
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An Investor Who Backed eBay Says Now Is A Great Time To Do Consumer Internet...
Dan Levitan, the cofounder of venture-capital firm Maveron, backed eBay a decade and a half ago.He says it's still a good time to invest in consumer startups, despite a vogue in the industry for...
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At This Startup, The CEO Lets All Employees Read Confidential Emails
Payments startup Stripe has a pretty innovative policy when it comes transparency. Any employee can read almost every email sent within the company. What that means is that every email is internally...
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Finally Startups Have Realized That You Actually Need Revenue To Run A Business
Now that investors are investing in fewer early stage companies, startups finally seem to understand what it takes to run a business:Revenue.Y Combinator, the prestigious startup accelerator that...
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This Is The Most Innovative Startup From This Year's Y-Combinator Class
Silicon Valley's most prestigious accelerator Y Combinator just hosted its Demo Day for its Winter 2013 class. Even though this class was smaller than its previous batches, the talent was just as good....
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The Brilliant, Unusual Way Media Startup Upworthy Grew To 10.4 Million...
Most media companies focus on covering the latest news. Eli Pariser and his army of bloggers at Upworthy don't, yet they have grown from no readers last year to 10.4 million last month.If The New York...
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Two Women CEOs Explain How To Squash Sexism In The Tech Industry
Between the uproar over Sheryl Sandberg's new book and SendGrid's Donglegate scandal, one thing is clear: It's not always easy for women working in the tech industry.We recently spoke with two powerful...
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Your Application To Become A Billionaire Is Due Tomorrow
If you want to become a billionaire, the time to act is now. Silicon Valley's most prestigious startup factory Y Combinator is accepting applications for its summer 2013 class. But the deadline is...
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Fred Wilson 'Lost' The First Investment He Was Going To Lead In Over A Year
At the end of last year, Fred Wilson, the leading voice of New York venture capital firm Union Square Ventures, wrote that he hadn't led a single investment since the summer of 2011.He's wasn't happy...
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Venture Capitalists Don't Respect Female Entrepreneurs
Women only get 4.2 percent of venture capitalist funding, which is an incredible gap. A forthcoming study from Stanford's Clayman Institute for Gender Research takes a look at possible reasons, and...
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Thanks To Geniuses From MIT And Harvard, There Are Some Truly Innovative...
Boston's startup scene is thriving.With talent constantly pouring out of universities like Harvard and MIT, and programs like TechStars Boston, Mass Challenge, and Startup Institute Boston mentoring...
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How To Build A Billion-Dollar Internet Company
There are not very many billion-dollar consumer Internet companies in the U.S.Greylock Partners VC James Slavet recently dove head-first into the data, and found that there are only 24 publicly traded...
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Joining Silicon Valley's Billion-Dollar Startup Factory, Y Combinator, Isn't...
Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator is one of the most prestigious programs for entrepreneurs in the tech industry.It has an acceptance rate similar to that of an Ivy League school, and a track...
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The Story Of A Failed Startup And A Founder Driven To Suicide
A few months ago, on Sunday, January 27, an entrepreneur named Jody Sherman had plans to see a movie with a friend.But that afternoon, the friend received a call from Jody's wife, Kerri.Jody had gone...
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