Toronto founders, angels, and VCs: We’re coming for you!
Junket alert! The Ontario ministry of economic development has invited VentureBeat to check out the center of the universe, AKA, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. And I’m the lucky guinea pig. We’ll be in...
View ArticleYCombinator’s Paul Graham now taking applications for Startup School 2013...
woodleywonderworksIf you want to start a startup, there’s a school for that. It’s called Startup School, and it was created by YCombinator’s Paul Graham, who is now taking applications for attendees....
View ArticleFacebook founder is now helping bring high-speed Internet to public schools
Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now Students require lightning fast Internet to take advantage of the best electronic learning tools, and schools are under mounting pressure to...
View ArticleHow do I figure out who my next important hire should be?
This is the perennial question for startups who have started to taste success, and are ready to invest in themselves in the form of new helping hands. The question is: How do you decide what role is...
View ArticleStarting and running a company are two completely different things…
So you’ve had a business idea, but where do you start? It is important to understand the basics of starting your own company, but beginning this new business venture and being able to keep it going are...
View ArticleWhy Hearsay Social’s Clara Shih pushes companies to think digitally
Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen once opined that “software is eating the world,” referring to the impact companies coming out of the technology industry are having on businesses that have...
View ArticleFounder Kevin Rose is so totally over Digg
It looks like Kevin Rose isn’t taking his departure from news aggregator Digg so badly. Rose said on Twitter Thursday that he doesn’t even use aggregators like Digg as part of his online reading...
View ArticleBlack Girls Hack creates #blackhack: a hackathon for black women programmers
What do you do when you can’t find a cofounder? Or, when not enough people in your demographic are programmers, much less startup founders? If you’re one of the young women entrepreneurs behind Black...
View Article7 startups step out of ‘entrepreneur clubhouse’ at Founders Den demo night
‘Clubhouse for entrepreneurs’ Founders Den held its Spring demo event today where seven startups presented their products to a room filled with the elite investors. Founders Den is a ‘selectively...
View ArticleStartups: how to avoid death by enthusiasm
GUEST: This is a guest post by Eran Laniado, the managing director of BMN! This is heartbreaking: An entrepreneur puts mind, time, and energy into founding and running a new venture, and then...
View ArticleStartup stories: What I learned in a year with WisePricer
GUEST: Roey Brecher is co-founder and CTO of pricing intelligence startup WisePricer. As I’m writing this post, I’m sitting in an apartment that our business development guy is renting in Oakland. I’m...
View ArticleTeen developer funds startup by auctioning 10% of her future income (interview)
Who wants to go to college if you can start earning money right away? That’s one of the questions that Sarah Hanson, a 19-year-old developer and entrepreneur, asked herself. Especially since she knows...
View ArticleFounders: Bid for pitch slots with Tim Draper, Kleiner Perkins, Khosla...
CharityBuzz has gotten a taste of the tech world’s power, and it wants more. Weeks after auctioning off coffee with Apple CEO Tim Cook for a staggering $610,000, CharityBuzz is starting a new auction,...
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