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As part of Facebook's IPO filing, founder Mark Zuckerberg praised the concept of the "hackathon." Could something similar benefit your company, even if you're not in tech? Welcome to 2012 , a time in which hacking is praised in S-1 filings .
Read More »Hack Days: Not Just for Facebookers
As part of Facebook's IPO filing, founder Mark Zuckerberg praised the concept of the "hackathon." Could something similar benefit your company, even if you're not in tech?
Read More »Founders: Are You Forgetting Something?
Don't be too focused on your product--because if you're not building a community for it, it may never get off the ground. When you are first starting your business, it can seem as if there are an infinite number of items on your to-do list and not enough hours in the day.
Read More »Founders: Are You Forgetting Something?
Don't be too focused on your product--because if you're not building a community for it, it may never get off the ground. When you are first starting your business, it can seem as if there are an infinite number of items on your to-do list and not enough hours in the day. While it's important to put in the necessary time to build out your product or service, there is a danger in being overly focused
Read More »Facebook IPO: 6 Smart Takeaways
Few IPOs will be of the size of Facebook's. But the company's path to going public can teach any entrepreneur how to better navigate her own road to getting funding.
Read More »Inside Facebook’s S-1: What Investors Are Saying
We dug into the IPO filing. Is Facebook really worth $100 billion? What does it mean for capital markets?
Read More »What Will Today’s Apple Earnings Call Reveal?
Today Apple has an earnings call for its first quarter results for the fiscal year. They'll cover the all-important holiday season sales window, and could be seen as the first real moment when new CEO Tim Cook expresses his leadership of the company that was Steve Jobs's baby until recently.
Read More »What Does The Perfect Mobile Interface Look Like? (Don’t Ask Siri)
Why we’re still waiting for the perfect mobile interface. Illustration by Robert Samuel Hanson Shortly after the iPhone 4S went on sale this fall, its marquee feature, the Siri voice assistant, sparked a heated debate in the tech world: Was Siri a great computing interface, or was it the greatest?
Read More »The Great Tech War In India
In our last India edition of The Great Tech War of 2012 , we noted how Facebook was emerging as a clear winner. Since then, things have gotten more competitive.
Read More »How to Bag a Hacker
The latest tactic in the tech talent hunt: Get your techies to blog about how smart they are. On July 21, Filip Mares sparked a small uproar in the blogosphere with the following posting: "In order to query the post from memory, we bind a click event function to retrieve the contents for the < l i > id in question," he asserted.
Read More »Goodbye Industrial Robotics; Hello Rock Stars
How one man went from chasing start-up and technology jobs in Silicon Valley to creating a thriving craftsman shop making custom ukeleles for the likes of Eddie Vedder. Gordon Mayer's first job out of college was working for a start-up company creating industrial robots.
Read More »Generation Flux: Raina Kumra
Raina Kumra is a former documentary filmmaker, digital strategy guru at Wieden+Kennedy, and founder of Light Up Malawi, but is now a federal contractor--the Codirector of Innovation at the federal agency, the Broadcasting Board of Governors. @font-face { font-family: 'FCKaiserCondWebRegular'; src: url('/sites/all/themes/fc_v1/scripts/mod2011/fckaiser-cond-web-regular-webfont.eot'); src: url('/sites/all/themes/fc_v1/scripts/mod2011/fckaiser-cond-web-regular-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), url('/sites/all/themes/fc_v1/scripts/mod2011/fckaiser-cond-web-regular-webfont.woff') format('woff'), url('/sites/all/themes/fc_v1/scripts/mod2011/fckaiser-cond-web-regular-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'), url('/sites/all/themes/fc_v1/scripts/mod2011/fckaiser-cond-web-regular-webfont.svg# FCKaiserCondWebRegular') format('svg'); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; } .kaiser, .kaiser a {font-family: 'FCKaiserCondWebRegular', Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height:1; font-size:40px!important;color:#333; text-decoration:underline;} .kaiser a:hover {color:#666;} .kaiser {text-decoration:none;font-size:30px!important;} .sidebox {float:right;border:1px solid #e6e6e6;background-color:#fafafa!important;width:200px;padding:5px;margin:0px 0px 10px 10px;} .sidebox a {color:#e80681;font-weight:bold;} .sidebox p {font-size:13px;} .bottombox {background:#f2f2f2;border:1px solid #d8d8d8;padding:15px;} .bottombox img {display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle;width:50px;height:50px;padding:6px;} .bottombox a {display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle;width:70px;font-size:12px;line-height:1.2em; color:#e8007e;font-weight:bold;} Photo by Brooke Nipar "Fear holds a lot of people back," says Raina Kumra, 34. "I'm skill hoarding
Read More »What a CES Booth Actually Costs
The exposure is tremendous: 140,000 attendees and 5,000 members of the press. But the costs are steep.
Read More »How India Conquered Silicon Valley
The Indians are Silicon Valley's most successful immigrants. What have they done right, and what can women and other races learn from them?
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