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Is GitHub Selling Out or Moving Up?
After years of adamantly flying solo, one of the industry’s most prominent and successful bootstrappers just took $100 million from a prominent venture capital firm. Why did GitHub do it, and is the...
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Age Bias: Young Startup Founders Get More Investor Cash
Blame Mark Zuckerberg. Since he invented Facebook in the third grade (or so it seems) high-tech investors have been throwing more and more money at younger and younger whiz kids. Older entrepreneurs...
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Heart of Smartness: A Tech Accelerator for Africa
Africa has most of the elements required for technology innovation. What it doesn’t have is a startup culture where smart young entrepreneurs can grow their ideas into companies. So Mbwana Alliy is...
View ArticleFrom School to Startup: Bain’s StartUp Academy Matches College Students With...
Mitt Romney is growing his own. Well, sort of. His old firm, Bain Capital, is taking on the problem of hiring talented tech workers by training them itself. Bain’s StartUp Academy, launched by the...
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Why Hinterlands Startups Can’t Get Silicon Valley Funding
Silicon Forest, Silicon Prairie, Silicon Beach, Silicon Hills, Silicon Sandbar. Nice ideas, all of them. But let’s get real. Startups anywhere outside the two major tech hubs of Silicon Valley and...
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Why Venture Capital No Longer Defines Innovation
Today’s venture capital deal flow to innovative new companies looks a lot like a fat man trying to squeeze into a slim Italian suit. It just doesn’t fit. The new shape of innovation is a lot more...
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Why Eyeballs No Longer Matter For Startups
Need funding for your startup? Don’t load up your PowerPoint with nifty charts showing all the users your online service has grabbed. Venture capitalists are no longer impressed. These days, investors...
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TechCrunch Disrupt: Where Are They Now?
With TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 in full swing this week, it’s only a matter of days before a new winner is crowned. We decided to check in with previous Disrupt winners to see how they’ve fared since...
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Celebrities & Startups: That's So 5 Minutes Ago
Web groceries, sock puppets, podcasting - Internet trends come and go. The trick is to know when the end is near and avoid doing something foolish, like paying $580 million for MySpace. Today, that...
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Ecosystem + Incubator = Startup "Ecobator" NestGSV
Startup accelerators are great, as far as they go. The problem is that, after startups enjoy several months of pedal-to-the-metal support and mentorship, the vast majority of them exit the programs...
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6 Things That Can Kill Your City's Startup Community
Not every tech startup enjoys the luxury of launching in Silicon Valley — or Silicon Alley, or Austin, Texas, or another high-tech hotspot. What’s the solution? Instead of waiting for someone to offer...
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Executing On Mary Meeker’s Vision For America: USA Inc.
When “Queen of the Net” Mary Meeker landed at Kleiner Perkins she added a new initiative: Help people understand how certain trends were negatively impacting America. Her first report, USA Inc....
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One University To Rule Them All: Stanford Tops Startup List
Stanford University has a lot of smart people. But the school's nickname is dumb: the Stanford Cardinal. As in the color red. How unimaginative. Here's a better idea: the Stanford Entrepreneurs. Yes,...
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How To Be A Million-Dollar Entrepreneur - And Why It Matters
Guest author John Fearon is CEO of Dropmyemail.com, which backs up emails in the cloud. If you have a startup, ignore the business plan, financial projections, valuations and statistics for now....
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Can Venture Capital Fix Our Dysfunctional Educational System?
Venture capitalists are betting that technology will play a major role in fixing a broken U.S. educational system. Accel Partners, Spectrum Equity and Meritech Capital Partners put their chips down...
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10 Views On What To Look For In An Investor
Money - most startup founders need it at some point. But when you're raising outside capital, cash can come at a very high price if you're not on the same page as your investors. Where many startup...
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When - And Why - You Should Say "No" To $1 Million
Guest author John Fearon is CEO of Dropmyemail.com, which backs up emails in the cloud. As a CEO/Founder of a startup, you might very well find yourself seeking to raise $1 million. Imagine your...
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Bootstrapping Your Startup: 7 Hard-Earned Tips From Real Entrepreneurs
Everyone talks about the difficulty and importance of securing funding for your new startup. But that's not the only way to go. Plenty of startups intentionally avoid taking investor cash in an...
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Why Pinterest Could Be Worth Far More Than $2.5 Billion
Guest author Derek Brown is a technology executive and analyst who blogs at One Blind Squirrel. Pinterest is a three-year-old start-up with what is rumored to be no revenue to date. Zero. In fact, by...
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100 AngelList Startups To Watch In 2013: How Many Are New To You?
AngelList. It’s the place for startups to connect with funding and talent. Just this month, the site has helped raise $12 million in venture funding for a wide collection of startups. It may be the...
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