entrepreneurship

How to Avoid a VC Shotgun Wedding

Charles Moldow, general partner, Foundation Capital in Voices on December 13, 2011 at 1:43 pm PT

In venture capital — as in romance — playing it slow is the way to go.

Viral Video: An Interview With Andreessen Horowitz’s Jeff Jordan

Kara Swisher in News on November 3, 2011 at 5:35 am PT

Jeff Jordan: Unplugged.

Master of “Biz” Returns to School

Melissa Korn and Amir Efrati, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 1, 2011 at 7:36 am PT

Twitter Inc. co-founder Christopher “Biz” Stone dropped out of college — twice, from Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts, Boston — yet this fall he’ll be advising M.B.A. students at the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business on topics such as entrepreneurship and innovation.

Silicon Valley: The Next Decade (Part 1)

Sramana Mitra, Entrepreneur in Voices on June 15, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

Amid incessant talks of bubbles and baubles, it is clear that Silicon Valley is back. With a vengeance, no less.

Ten Entrepreneurship Rules for Building Massive Companies

Reid Hoffman, Co-founder and Chairman, LinkedIn; Partner, Greylock Partners in News on March 22, 2011 at 4:17 pm PT

Last week I gave a talk at South by Southwest, and in it I shared my top 10 rules for entrepreneurship. They are borne from my experiences starting companies and partnering with great entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley as an angel and a venture capitalist. I hope they prove to be useful to you. If you are an entrepreneur and have other rules you live by and want to share with others, please post your thoughts in the comments field.

Stanford Entrepreneurship Week: Little Fish, But in Big Pond

Joe Ciolli in News on February 27, 2011 at 9:00 am PT

Stanford University’s Entrepreneurship Week–E-Week, for short–continues this week, at the educational institution which has spawned a lot of Silicon Valley’s biggest tech companies.

Egypt.com: Is It Time to Invest in Egyptian Start-ups?

Seth Goldstein and Christopher M. Schroeder, Angel Investors and Entrepreneurs in News on January 25, 2011 at 3:35 pm PT

The current upheaval in Egypt reflects pent-up frustration with the regime across a wide swath of society. Among the discontent is a growing class of educated, tech-savvy entrepreneurs hoping for greater stability to attract and reassure foreign investors.

QOTD: Yeah, Just Like “Moby Dick” Was a Celebration of the Whaling Industry

“The true takeaway for me was that entrepreneurship and creativity, however complicated, difficult or tortured to execute, are perhaps the most important drivers of business today and the growth of our economy.”

– Eduardo Saverin, Facebook’s estranged co-founder, says he found inspiration in watching “The Social Network” (in which he is sympathetically portrayed as getting shafted by Mark Zuckerberg).

Meet the Two Grad Students Who Freaked Out the NYT–The Pulse iPad App Creators Speak!

Kara Swisher in News on June 8, 2010 at 6:17 pm PT

The first thing to strike you about the pair of Stanford University graduate students who made the banned and then unbanned news-reading iPad app, Pulse News Reader, is how they look like an advertisement for all that is good about entrepreneurship. Sweet-natured, slightly naive, energetic and very product focused, they are the last techies you’d choose to be the ones who got the New York Times in enough of a tizzy to force Apple to pull the news aggregator from its App Store. See for yourself in this video.

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