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4 Signs Your Start-Up Needs an Exit Plan
Ready to kiss your start-up goodbye? VC principal Geoff Lewis offers four ways to tell if you're prime for the picking. Exit strategies are rarely mentioned by start-ups, yet they are something every business owner needs if they hope to be acquired, said Geoff Lewis, principal at Founders Fund, a venture capital firm. Show More Summary
Sleep Deprivation: Just as Bad for Work as Alcohol
Feel proud of your 70-hour weeks? You may as well boast about coming to work drunk. Just how deep does the lionization of long work hours run in the entrepreneurial community? Pretty deep, according to Forbes writer Michael Simmons. When he started asking around Silicon Valley if 70-hour work weeks were worth it, he noticed founders turned cagey. Show More Summary
It’s Not Creepy: Remotely Monitor Your Aging Parents
As our parents and grandparents get older, wouldn’t it be nice to have a way to unobtrusively monitor whether or not they’re eating, taking?
Report: Yahoo board agrees to snatch Tumblr for $1.1B
Yahoo's board of directors reportedly approved buying the Tumblr blogging site in a $1.1 billion cash deal. The Wall Street Journal reported the board's action on Sunday. This is the biggest deal yet for CEO Marissa Mayer, after a series...Show More Summary
Why Warby Parker Opened a Retail Store
The future of retail is at the intersection of e-commerce and bricks-and-mortars, says co-founder Neil Blumenthal. When Warby Parker opened a flagship in New York City, many people were shocked. No one expected the digital eyewear disruptor to expand their business to a bricks-and-mortar store. Show More Summary
What It Really Means to Put Your Best Foot Forward
Seva Call founder Manpreet Singh says what you do matters more than what you wear. In Silicon Valley, the classic suit and tie has long given way to hoodies and sweatpants. But Manpreet Singh says he's fine with that. The founder and...Show More Summary
How Mansa Systems Crossed $2M Leveraging Salesforce AppExchange
In 2006, the concept of cloud computing was just beginning to gain ground. Siva Devaki saw the Cloud as a means to achieve his longtime dream of building a full-service IT company. He decided to leave his secure career working for large companies such as Oracle and VeriSign. Show More Summary
IBM's Watson at your customer service
Would your life be easier if your human customer service rep were as quick to respond to your inquiries as the Watson supercomputer from Jeopardy? IBM thinks so, and today it introduced the IBM Watson Engagement Advisor, a technology...Show More Summary
Newsle's secret? Names make news—and get funding
Axel Hansen and Jonah Varon are building a startup based on who you know and who you want to know more about. The 22-year-olds landed $1.65 million in funding for Newsle this week from Advance Publications, which owns American City Business...Show More Summary
Get serious with your TV, bring Xbox One into your relationship
Video-game console? What video-game console? Microsoft revealed the newest version of what was once its video-game console. Now the Xbox has become an entertainment system that gives customers access to television, movies, games, video...Show More Summary
Past disasters inspire tech-based Oklahoma tornado relief
Technology is playing an increasingly important role in disaster relief, and has inspired even more sophisticated efforts in response to this week's horrific and deadly tornadoes in suburbs of Oklahoma City. In disasters like Monday's...Show More Summary
The Side Effects of funding
How meticulously should a entrepreneur define funding? That’s a question that came from a viewing of the Steven Soderburgh movie Side Effects, released earlier this year but is out today on DVD. The movie presents a thought-provoking...Show More Summary
Survivalist Bear Grylls' startup adventure
The survivalist Bear Grylls, who hosts the Discovery Channel’s Man vs. Wild, has a new stunt to perform: working for a startup. The British adventurer has joined San Francisco-based Zozi as its new celebrity spokesman and adviser, heading...Show More Summary
Tumblr provides a rich payday for VCs, founder Karp, early employees
New York City, which has been rising fast in the venture capital sweepstakes, has its first $1 billion-plus exit, a huge windfall for the venture capitalists and early employees who staked Tumblr, and a boon to the burgeoning tech scene...Show More Summary
VIDEO: Do not throw away your 20s, Millennials
VIDEO Sound advice for new college grads: Clinical psychologist Meg Jay, in a newly released TED Talk, says that our culture has wrongly trivialized those in their 20s as being in a throwaway decade. “Eighty percent of life’s most defining moments take place by age 35,” she says. Show More Summary
Yahoo won't make Tumblr throw out its porn says Marissa Mayer
Looks like vast swaths of the Tumblr universe will stay NSFW. Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer said that adult content will stay on Tumblr and that the site’s current guidelines will stand. Basically, users are barred from uploading...Show More Summary
Fab looks to join the $1 billion club
Fresh off its first $1 billion plus acquisition deal, the New York startup scene is about to have another member of the 10-figure club. Fab is raising a monster round of venture capital at a valuation north of $1 billion. The onlineShow More Summary
General Assembly Co-Founder: 'Your Education Is Always in Beta'
No matter what happens, you should never stop learning, says Matthew Brimer and a panel of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs should think of their education as always being in beta with room for growth and improvement, said Matthew Brimer, co-founder of General Assembly, a start-up academy. Show More Summary
The Biggest Threat to the Yahoo-Tumblr Combination
A recently-acquired founder has some advice on company culture for Marissa Mayer. So another young tech genius cashes out as Yahoo acquires Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Will Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer be able to turn it into a profitable venture? I'll leave that to the pundits. Show More Summary
Hangout Magix: New Tool Lets You Add Branding to Google Hangouts
A new tool is available to give users options when it comes to Google Hangout graphics. Hangout Magix was unveiled on May 4 by entrepreneurs Alex Kozak and Bertrand Diouly.
The app is intended to work alongside Hangout Toolbox, a Google+...Show More Summary
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