Free Ventures Is Seeking the Next Mark Zuckerberg to Drop In and Maybe Drop Out
Why would universities finance programs that, if successful, encourage their brightest to leave? It's complicated.
View ArticleTime to Monetize Messenger? PayPal’s President David Marcus Jumps to Facebook...
This signals a potentially big shift in payments strategy.
View ArticleSwipe Right: The Tinderlicious Power Players of LA Tech List
Or swipe left -- we don't judge.
View ArticleBook Excerpt: “An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Fixing Health Care”
For those arriving from more competitive industries, the emptiness -- and opportunities -- of the health-care market can lead to slack-jawed disbelief.
View ArticleCircle Internet Financial’s Jeremy Allaire Talks Up Some Bitcoin (Video)
The digital currency startup got a lot of real dollars for making it easier to use digital currency.
View ArticleNerd Breakfast With Bloomberg: Media Mogul Opens R&D Lab in SF
The billionaire media mogul show rolls into town. Instant rimshots galore: Ba-dum-bump!
View ArticleReddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Joins Y Combinator as Partner
The Reddit co-founder is now going to help others co-found.
View ArticleNew Boy of Benchmark: Rockmelt’s Eric Vishria Talks About Becoming Fifth...
Every time a startup is funded, a VC gets his wings.
View ArticleAhead of Demo Day, New Y Combinator Partner Alexis Ohanian Speaks! (Video)
The bearded guru of startups explains what makes him excited these days in the tech space.
View ArticleK Street Black Rock: Burning Man’s Billionaires Row
The fleet of wealthy campers that have descended on Burning Man this year is inducing anxiety among Burners.
View ArticleFood Startup Hampton Creek Nabs Ali Partovi to Run Strategy
Eggless mayo gets a new pitchman.
View ArticleRadiumOne Founder Chahal Wants Company to Sell and Not IPO — And Has Been...
To sell or not to sell, is that the question for the ad tech company?
View ArticleWant to Go Far? Go Together.
"Collaborative creativity" is a central takeaway in "The Innovators," the new book by Walter Isaacson, author of "Steve Jobs."
View ArticleYahoo’s Small Business Head Amit Kumar Departs Company
Amit Kumar, a well-regarded entrepreneur who has sold two startups to Yahoo, is leaving the company, according to sources. He has been its VP and GM of small business, a role he took after the Silicon...
View ArticleRaine Group Adds Online Video Pioneer Mika Salmi as Adviser
Remember AtomFilms? Yeah, that guy.
View ArticleGetting Past the Catch-22 of Venture Capital
Step-by-step in the VC process with a "lean entrepreneur" approach.
View ArticleSilicon Valley Venture Capital Has a Diversity Problem
Erasing overt racism or sexism isn't enough. We need to be practicing overt inclusion.
View ArticleTop Exec Mike Kerns Out at Yahoo
Yahoo has lost one of its most experienced execs, Mike Kerns, as others move around, jockeying as new configurations of power form at the troubled Internet giant. Kerns, who came to the company in 2006...
View ArticleBeloved Silicon Valley Entrepreneur David Goldberg Dies Suddenly
A much-admired and beloved figure in the tech and media scene, he was also my friend, and the news of his loss is simply devastating.
View ArticleMore Code Speakers: Barra, Maritz, Peretti and Smith
GM, Pivotal, BuzzFeed -- all companies trying to figure out the digital future.
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