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How to Build “Entertainment Tonight” for YouTube: Young Hollywood Learns on the Job

Peter Kafka in Media on October 6, 2012 at 4:00 am PT

An interview with R.J. Williams, whose production company got one of the YouTube “channel” deals a year ago. Important lesson: More Selena Gomez, less Joan Rivers.

Ten Things About Me

Ten Things About Spencer Rascoff

Beth Callaghan in Ten Things About Me on August 31, 2012 at 11:35 am PT

What do you get when you cross “Dukes of Hazzard” with “The Bachelorette”?

Ten Things About Me

Twenty Things About TaskRabbit Founder Leah Busque

Beth Callaghan in Ten Things About Me on May 23, 2012 at 3:19 pm PT

TaskRabbit founder and Chief Product Officer Leah Busque was a software engineer in Boston (with a well-documented B.S. in computer science) when the concept of “service networking” occurred to her.

Going to a Start-Up Accelerator Is Just Like Summer Camp, Right?

Liz Gannes in News on May 9, 2012 at 9:00 am PT

500 Startups’ new parody movie trailer is almost too true to life.