Hiring by video: enRecruit aims to take the pain out of hiring

Hiring well is one of the most crucial things any company does. New start-up enRecruit is launching today to help recruiters and managers use video to hire better, smarter, faster.

The London and NY-based venture, founded by serial entrepreneur Martin …

A cure for your incubator fatigue: Meet nReduce, the open-source Y Combinator

Incubators are like belly buttons: Everybody’s got one.

Or so it seems from where we sit in San Francisco, where if one throws a rock in certain neighborhoods, one is sure to hit an incubator or accelerator or at least …

Entrepreneur “student fair on steroids” brings heavy hitter VCs to Stanford

Silicon Valley’s brightest young minds will vie for $150,000 in rewards as part of a full-day entrepreneurial challenge at Stanford University this Tuesday.

The Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES), the student-run organization behind the event, has birthed a …

Silicon Valley needs humanities students

Quit your technology job. Get a Ph.D in the humanities. That’s the way to get ahead in the technology sector. That, at least, is what philosopher Damon Horowitz told a crowd of attendees at the BiblioTech Conference at Stanford University …

Venture capital as we know it is history

New York venture capitalist Fred Wilson recently pointed out that the VC industry is at risk of being marginalized by the emerging crowdfunding industry. I agree that the provision of capital for entrepreneurs is about to change in a big …

Lenddo uses social networks to give loans and improve credit

Lenddo, which helps people build credit with small loans and a social-based Klout-like scoring system, raised an $8 million first round of funding Tuesday.

The brains behind Lenddo, co-founders Jeff Stewart and Richard Eldridge and chief scientist Dr. Naveen Agnihotri, …

11 productivity tips from successful entrepreneurs

When everything’s a priority, how do you maximize your productivity and continue getting things done? We asked eleven entrepreneurs about their strategies for staying on top of mounting piles of work, focusing on what’s important, and otherwise holding on to …