AngelList was founded back in 2010 as a community for startups — part social network, part communication tool — designed to connect first-time entrepreneurs with respected angel investors. At the time, veteran venture capitalist and angel investor Mark Suster said that it was one of the most important contributions by the Web to angel [...]
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January 30th 2012 | Posted by admin
AngelList was founded back in 2010 as a community for startups — part social network, part communication tool — designed to connect first-time entrepreneurs with respected angel investors. At the time, veteran venture capitalist and angel investor Mark Suster said that it was one of the most important contributions by the Web to angel [...]
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January 30th 2012 | Posted by admin
The local commerce industry as represented by daily deal sites like Groupon and LivingSocial is still barely learning to walk, even though Groupon has 10,000 employees and LivingSocial has 5,000. While the two companies look nearly identical today, don’t be surprised if they diverge.
LivingSocial CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy reminded me in a conversation last week [...]
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January 30th 2012 | Posted by admin
The local commerce industry as represented by daily deal sites like Groupon and LivingSocial is still barely learning to walk, even though Groupon has 10,000 employees and LivingSocial has 5,000. While the two companies look nearly identical today, don’t be surprised if they diverge.
LivingSocial CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy reminded me in a conversation last week [...]
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January 30th 2012 | Posted by admin
Remember the old Techmeme of a week ago, before the new design took effect? Sure, the new design is easy on the eyes. But is it better?
Personally, I’m already used to the new look, other than the sponsored posts stuck in your face in the new middle column (push those to the right, please, where [...]
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January 30th 2012 | Posted by admin
Remember the old Techmeme of a week ago, before the new design took effect? Sure, the new design is easy on the eyes. But is it better?
Personally, I’m already used to the new look, other than the sponsored posts stuck in your face in the new middle column (push those to the right, please, where [...]
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January 30th 2012 | Posted by admin
DreamHost has been having a rough couple weeks. The low-cost hosting provider and domain name registrar found some unauthorized activity in its databases back on January 20th, which they later admitted were a series of attacks that may have led to the theft of some of their customers’ FTP passwords. The company required mandatory password [...]
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January 30th 2012 | Posted by admin
In the market for a new point and shoot? Didn’t think so. Why don’t you take a gander at the new Sony shooters anyway?
You’ve basically got two models worth looking at. First is the rather expensive TX200V:
It’s expensive for a reason, though. They’ve made it look as much like an iPhone as possible, flat glass [...]
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January 30th 2012 | Posted by admin
The top executives in today’s largest corporations not only travel in style, but they have access to an absurd array of perks while they travel, from awards and complimentary products to discounts on just about everything. On the IPO “road show” for his company VarsityBooks (now part of eFollet.com), serial entrepreneur Eric Kuhn remembers being [...]
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January 30th 2012 | Posted by admin
Editor’s Note: Richard Fontaine, a Senior Advisor at the Center for a New American Security, is the co-author of Internet Freedom: A Foreign Policy Imperative in the Digital Age. Follow him @rhfontaine.
Twitter has taken fire in recent days from activists and bloggers who fear that the company’s new censorship policies will muffle online freedom. [...]