Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner.
Here's why you should block Facebook and Twitter at your office – Social networks are a lot of fun, but they can be corporate nightmares. Forget the lost productivity time, attorney Curtis Smolar gives five examples of updates and Tweets that might sound innocuous, but can cause major legal headaches.
5 reasons working from home (or Starbucks) is a bad idea – Calling a spare bedroom or the local coffee shop your office seems like one of the draws of the bootstrap life – but serial entrepreneur and co-founder of thredUP James Reinhart says that’s the great lie, offering five reasons that the office-less startup is no way to run a business.
Your checklist for chaos – While chaos and disorder are common at startups, there’s still a lot of value in checklists and discussion. Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank talks about how this unusual approach led E.piphany to sales of $125 million in three years.
Are we nearing the end of the VC dog days? – The days since the market crash of 2008 haven’t been good for the venture capital world, as investments have slowed. But David Millard, Chair of the Business Department of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, says there are signs of a thaw, which could give hope to the startup world.
Hseieh: Corporate culture should be a top priority – How many new employees at your company would turn down an offer of $3,000 to quit just weeks after starting? At Zappos, which makes this offer to every employee, it’s a miniscule number. Tony Hseieh explains why in this entrepreneur thought leader lecture given last month at Stanford University.