Like you need another excuse to throw a regional foods party.
Launching a business is easy. But launching and committing to grow a business is also terrifying.
Who Wants to Be a Billionaire? Twice a year, close to 200 teams of aspiring tech entrepreneurs, most in their 20s, converge on Mountain View, in Si...
Founding companies is second only to, perhaps, sky diving when it comes to terror, which is why Michelle You, co-founder of Songkick, offers advice to those starting up that's also remarkably applicable to those jumping out of airplanes -- close your eyes and leap.
I was fortunate to be accepted to Startup School, an event sponsored by Stanford BASES and Y Combinator, where tech startup founders speak about how they built their business and give tips.
"Whiz kid" hardly describes young tech entrepreneur Connor Zwick. "Prodigy" would be a better word. At 19, Zwick and his business partner Colton Gyula...
By Major Tian It may not sound as flashy as social media, but healthcare is becoming a new star in Silicon Valley. Driven by the promis...
While startups require decisiveness, perseverance, and a host of other traits to start, they don't initially require ideas. Though it doesn't fit the rhetoric of the typical Silicon Valley story, this model is not new.
Over a dozen venture-backed peer-to-peer fashion marketplaces have launched in the last year. Re-commerce, it seems, is green in more ways than one.
Silicon Valley startup guru Paul Graham has issued a warning to entrepreneurs on the hunt for venture capital in the wake of Facebook's tumultuous pub...
That jacket right there. That's the one you wore right out of the store in Tuscany. And those funky sunglasses? Bought from a street vendor in Seoul. ...
Strategic questions need to be answered. Does a eBook publisher focus on marketing, or content creation, or formatting?
The first stage of a startup, what I call the Building Product stage, is management light. The team should be small.
Over the past few months, I've seen over 160 companies come through eight different accelerator programs. It's a skewed group, but it captures the zeitgeist of a certain segment of the tech industry.
Discovery has been a feature of the Internet for a long time, but there's an important difference between "today's most-emailed stories" and content that relates to the stories I've read, liked, or reviewed. This is discovery based on me.
Despite the fact that he has no relation to the country legend, Hank Williams was on some level destined for the music industry. Williams, an engineer...
I love tech startups. And the chance to use my rather specific focus to assist a selection of tech entrepreneurs in the middle of rebooting their entire nation was something I couldn't pass up.
Last week, 60 companies began a three month startup boot camp at Silicon Valley's Y Combinator. If all goes well, they should be worth millions by the...
On Tuesday, I checked out TechCrunch Disrupt, a startup conference hosted by Michael Arrington's popular blog TechCrunch. The day's events included Ch...
This is part of my ongoing Series on Mentorship. I've been doing a lot of thinking about mentorship and mentorship programs of late. In that I pro...
Ten days before my 20th birthday, I received a check for $750,000. On my 21st, I received a check for $4 million. As for my 22nd birthday, well ... that's a long ways away. Who knows what'll happen?
The idea for MessageParty, like most startups, came from a combination of personal frustration and curiosity. I was at a large music festival and ...
Filling out an online form can change your life. I filled out two such forms. One was a dating profile at Match.com. The second was the application to Y Combinator. Little did I know how these forms would conspire to change everything.
Hipmunk is not finding flights for you that no one else can but it is making the process of choosing a flight smarter, faster and easier by presenting an intuitive interface to visualize options ad-free.
This year, 1.5 million Facebook users will pass away but their Facebook profiles will live on. This is a growing problem and people are naturally asking: can major social media sites handle their dead?
