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BusinessWeek
February 24, 2011
Brad Stone |
Paul Graham's Search for the Next Facebook Graham's Y Combinator is an early-stage investment firm and boot camp for entrepreneurs that uses "mass production techniques" in its search for and development of promising startups.   |
Fast Company
April 2009
Kate Bonamici Flaim |
Startup School Trains Early-Stage Tech Companies Jessica Livingston, along with Trevor Blackwell, Paul Graham, and Robert Morris, cofounded Y Combinator, which trains early-stage tech startups for a "semester" to help them navigate companyhood. Alumni include leaders of social news site Reddit, acquired by Conde Nast in 2006. |
Entrepreneur
February 2009
Sara Wilson |
Tech Hotbed: NYC Even before the financial mess, New York City's tech startup culture had been gaining ground as a growing number of tech startups started choosing the Big Apple as their city of residence. |
Entrepreneur
November 2007
Sara Wilson |
Win Your Startup Capital A business contest lets wannabe tech entrepreneurs get in the startup game. |
BusinessWeek
December 31, 2008 |
How to Refurbish the U.S. Tech Industry A prescription for fixing the country's technology innovation machine. |
Fast Company
Max Chafkin |
This Prosthetics Startup Shows How Software is Eating the World At Y Combinator there are more than a dozen startups developing sophisticated hardware products, biotech technologies, and even medical devices. |
Fast Company
February 2015
Butler & Tischler |
The Startup Revolution Is About To Surge Again What would it look like if big companies opened up their assets -- their brands, relationships, and distribution channels -- and partnered with founders to monetize them in new ways? |
Fast Company
June 2014
Max Chafkin |
The Ugly Truth About Silicon Valley's Diversity Problem Study after study has shown that startups with diverse teams fail less often and generate higher rates of return than companies managed by men alone. |
Global Services
June 14, 2007
Adyasha Sinha |
Immigrant Entrepreneurs: What's their Education Quotient? A recent report tracks the educational backgrounds of immigrant entrepreneurs and found a strong correlation between educational attainment (particularly in the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and entrepreneurship. |
BusinessWeek
March 11, 2010
Douglas MacMillan |
Visas for Foreign Entrepreneurs The proposed StartUp Visa Act would open the door to foreign entrepreneurs who create jobs. |
CIO
September 1, 2011
Kristin Burnham |
LinkedIn Deciphers the Entrepreneur What sets entrepreneurs apart and where do they come from? LinkedIn scoured more than 120 million profiles to paint the picture of today's entrepreneur. Here's what they found. |
BusinessWeek
January 8, 2007
Spencer E. Ante |
The Return Of The Tech IPO Silicon Valley pundits are predicting 2007 will be the biggest year since 2000. |
BusinessWeek
August 16, 2004
Robert D. Hof |
"Please God, Just One More Bubble" Too many tech investors, from Wall Street to Sand Hill Road, seem to be ignoring why they crashed after the 1990s hit a dead end. Venture capitalists are pouring money into look-alike startups in nascent sectors and dot-com stocks look pricey. |
Fast Company
May 1, 2007
Ellen McGirt |
Hacker. Dropout. CEO. When Mark Zuckerberg showed up in Palo Alto three years ago, he had no car, no house, and no job. Today, he's at the helm of a smokin'-hot social-networking site, Facebook, and turning down billion-dollar offers. Can this kid be for real? |
Wired
April 2001 |
The Disposable Corporation Tech startups' life cycles get even shorter. As the pace of innovation increases, the useful life span of a given new product or service often decreases - and so does that of the company that makes it. Startups are still good business, but fewer will be built to last... |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 7, 2011
Carmen Nobel |
Creating the Founders' Dilemmas Course Students study the quandaries that virtually all entrepreneurs will face when trying to realize the dream of launching a start-up -- from deciding when to start the company to learning how to make a graceful exit. |
InternetNews
January 11, 2008
Mike Elgan |
Where Annoying Tech Buzzwords Come From What do you do when you want to emphasize the cool newness of something that's not really new? Make a buzzword! |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 21, 2012
Garry Emmons |
How to Sink a Startup Noam Wasserman, author of the recently released book "The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup," discusses ill-advised entrepreneurial behavior. |
CIO
August 15, 2005
Eric Knorr |
Don't Debate: Innovate! Companies in China, India, Korea, and Taiwan are courting offshoring work and buying failing companies with solid technology. To remain on top in the tech industry, it is necessary for American companies to be bold and innovative. |
BusinessWeek
April 14, 2011
Ashlee Vance |
This Tech Bubble Is Different Tech bubbles happen, but we usually gain from the innovation left behind. This one -- driven by social networking -- could leave us empty-handed |
The Motley Fool
October 28, 2008
Tim Beyers |
Where the Multibaggers Are Silicon Valley, which Google, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems call home, is now ground zero for healthcare and energy-related innovative companies. |
BusinessWeek
October 20, 2003
Kerstetter & Coy |
High Tech: A Little Help Wanted With startups and small companies -- the likes of Salesforce Inc. and RightNow -- beginning to recruit again, and layoffs coming at a far slower rate than earlier this year, some economists are starting to venture that the long slide in tech employment finally seems to be leveling off. |
InternetNews
February 19, 2009
David Needle |
Rocky Times Ahead for Silicon Valley Don't bet on green tech to lead a turnaround, experts warn. Instead, count on "creative destruction" and "Moore's Second Law." |
The Motley Fool
August 12, 2008
Mac Greer |
Fool Video: 3 Tech Stocks for Now Is it time for investors to buy tech? This question is discussed in this video. |
InternetNews
December 4, 2008
David Needle |
Can Clean Tech Beget Greenbacks? If you thought the PC revolution was big, just wait till clean tech hits its stride. At least, that's the hope of investment firms. |
The Motley Fool
December 15, 2008
Tim Beyers |
Silicon Valley Isn't Safe Tech investing is risky. Just ask any investor who survived the dot-com bust. Is it possible to invest in tech and not get burned? |
Inc.
June 2009
Max Chafkin |
The Start-up Guru: Y Combinator's Paul Graham Paul Graham's business school and investment fund, Y Combinator, has launched 145 companies -- for a lot less money than you would think. |
Inc.
March 2007
Amy Feldman |
Putting Founders First How one VC Firm coddles its CEOs. |
Fast Company
Jul/Aug 2014
Carr & Wilson |
Facebook's Plan To Own Your Phone To make Facebook more relevant than ever, the company has targeted the very core of the app economy to fulfill its vision for the next half-decade. |
BusinessWeek
October 22, 2007
Bruce Nussbaum |
America's Fleeting Edge in Innovation "Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back" is an insightful, and scary, account of the innovation challenges faced by the U.S. |
Entrepreneur
August 2005
Mark Henricks |
Future's So Bright Book reviews: Five Regions of the Future fractures technology into major subsystems... The Design of Things to Come shows entrepreneurs how to come up with redefining innovation... |
CIO
September 15, 2002
Gary Beach |
A New Pitch Startup tech CEOs may know technology, but they are clueless about marketing. |
Bank Systems & Technology
March 29, 2006
Katherine Burger |
You're Wearing That? Innovation is not just about new products and services, but also encompasses business model innovation, process innovation, culture innovation and management system innovation. |
Entrepreneur
December 2007
Rosalind Resnick |
Two's Company If you're willing to put in the hours, maybe a partner will fork over the dough. |
Fast Company
November 2006
Anya Kamenetz |
Pop! Till You Drop For a decade, Pop!Tech has brought together luminaries, wizards, writers, entrepreneurs, and other brainiacs to try to out-think the world's problems. This year's no different. |
InternetNews
November 25, 2008
David Needle |
Merrill Lynch Goes Ga Ga for Green Will "clean tech" displace IT as the darling of the next technology revolution? |
Wired
June 2003
Po Bronson |
Life in the Bust Belt Boom space: what's left after the thrill is gone? That's what they're asking in Silicon Valley. |
BusinessWeek
October 22, 2007
Robert D. Hof |
What in the Web Are They Thinking? Believe it or not, the crazy sums tech and media giants are paying for startups may ultimately make sense. |
Fast Company
January 2003
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Back to the Garage Silicon Valley optimists say that now is a great time to start a new business. Everything's cheap, there's surplus talent, and as the veterans will tell you, "The tourists have all gone home." |
BusinessWeek
April 3, 2006 |
Innovation: The View From The Top IBM Chairman Samuel J. Palmisano on what CEOs can do to lay the groundwork for real breakthroughs. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 4, 2012 |
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors In his new book, The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup, HBS Associate Professor Noam Wasserman tells readers how to anticipate, avoid, and, if necessary, recover from the landmines that can destroy a nascent company before it has the chance to thrive. |
Fast Company
Matt Haber |
The Geniuses Behind All Those San Francisco Startups? They're Not Who You Think They Are San Francisco. It's gotten that you can't swing a corporate-logo-splashed swag bag in this town without hitting someone working on a startup. |
Inc.
February 2007
Mike Hofman |
Reading, Writing, Running a Company This month, a program called EntrepreneurshipWeek USA will extol the virtues of business ownership in schools across the country. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 15, 2005
Mike Roberts |
The Founding CEO's Dilemma: Stay or Go? Professor Noam Wasserman discusses research about founder-CEO succession. |
