Marissa Mayer is killing telecommuting, and that’s a good thing
Guest Post Thank goodness someone finally had the courage to stand up and say that telecommuting is officially banned.
Startup Clinic: Pinterest clones and the difficulty of getting timing right
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of VentureBeat columns by award-winning author and serial entrepreneur Penelope Trunk. She’s going to be our startup critic: She’ll review new companies, point out what they’re doing right, and give them …
Dylan’s Desk: On eve of Facebook IPO, Silicon Valley’s gap with the rest of America widens
May 15, 2012 1:02 PM
Dylan Tweney
People often say Silicon Valley is not like the rest of the world. We’re more tolerant of failure, embrace risk-taking more eagerly, get more enthusiastic about technical solutions, and have a huge, deep pool of engineering and marketing talent to …
Startup Clinic: Don’t write too much code before you have a customer
Guest Post This is the first in a series of VentureBeat columns by award-winning author and serial entrepreneur Penelope Trunk. She's going to be our startup critic: She'll review new companies, point out what they're doing right, and give them advice (which she's never shy about anyway) for how they can improve. Her first company is Browsemob.
Why smart authors are cutting Amazon out
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The recent anti-trust suit against the big five book publishers reminds me of the scene in the movie Titanic where the lifeboats are pulling away from the gasping survivors in the water. We all know what’s going to happen and …
How VCs can solve the woman problem, if there is one
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There’s a lack of women in the startup economy, but it’s not a problem.
First of all, if diversity was really a problem in the startup world, VCs would be solving it. Because VCs like making money, and VCs are …
How to know when to leave your startup
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My third startup is Brazen Careerist.
When I started building the brand of Brazen Careerist around the year 2000, I talked about ideas like job hopping as a way to build a solid career, and I warned that generation Y’s …
