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A recent transplant from Minneapolis dishes on what you need to know if you want to live in the start-up capital of the world. Moving your tech start-up to Silicon Valley makes sense on so many levels

Some of the start-ups that made the list are no-brainers. Others might have you scratching your head.

Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson is in a mixing room in Lower Manhattan--but instead of hawking headphones like he's scheduled to do, the Jamaica, Queens-bred rapper is hinting about investing in Spotify and all sorts of other Silicon Valley startups. Looks like G-Unit's getting a VC division. Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson should be hawking headphones.

You're far from VCs and surrounded by people who don't like risks. Then again, the potential to be a big fish in a small pond is huge. Launching a tech start-up outside the VC-obsessed Silicon Valley and New York City comes with a catch-22.

For a number of tech start-ups, its the Gallatin Valley--not the Silicon Valley--that offers the best environment for growth. Ask Jerry Nettuno why he didn’t found his startup Schedulicity in Silicon Valley and he’ll tell you he didn’t see the point. For one thing, he really likes where he lives.

Path steps away from the "photo-sharing" category and firmly joins the emerging rank of apps--from Facebook to Erly--that are devising ways to create digital scrapbooks of our lives. When Path launched a little over a year ago, many people were puzzled: Why would an app that was about sharing photos let you only share with 50 people

For the fourth year in a row, LinkedIn cofounder and Greylock partner Reid Hoffman is co-leading "Silicon Valley Comes To The UK"

If Startup America is to succeed, it needs start-ups to eschew the Bay Area. But there's no shortage of skeptics in the idea a "Silicon Prairie" will emerge

If you aren't learning enough from the conferences you attend, you're probably making the same mistake everyone else does. Don't. Business conferences often have more choirs than a church

The e-commerce giant secretly bought the Siri-like speech recognition start-up in September. Let the yapping begin: Amazon.com quietly has acquired a Siri-like speech recognition start-up called Yap. The e-commerce giant apparently bought the Charlotte-based company in September, but neither company made a public announcement–Amazon's foray into voice control a la Apple's Siri was uncovered by The Atlantic 's discovery of an SEC filing .

The e-commerce giant secretly bought the Siri-like speech recognition start-up in September. Let the yapping begin: Amazon.com quietly has acquired a Siri-like speech recognition start-up called Yap

It's going to be a wild ride on Friday when Groupon launches into the public markets. Here are three things to keep in mind as you watch the price race up and down.

Yahoo is known for acquiring startups and letting them languish. But IntoNow cranked out a whole new product--and a possible game-changer for the TV industry--in six months. Is this the beginning of something new?

How one young Bostonian became a networking king. Photo by David Yellen A pair of twentysomethings in Boston had a startup idea, so they did what just about everyone in their shoes does: They asked Jason Evanish for introductions to angel investors and VCs.

Imagine K12 is a new Palo Alto incubator birthing only education startups.