Zappos’ culture coach: how ‘squishy’ stuff like culture took us to a billion dollars in revenue

A great company culture doesn't have to cost a lot of money -- it's not about masseuses and prime rib.

Filmmaker finds S.F. startup scene driven by passion, ego, and tunnel-vision

Australian entrepreneur journeys to San Francisco to separate myth from reality about the local startup scene.

Andreessen-Horowitz expands social by hiring Twitter vet

Looks like Andreessen-Horowitz is building out its social investments side of the business. It came out today that the venture firm hired Twitter culture guru Elizabeth Weil to help expand its social know-how.

The horrible reality of Link’s adventures (comic strip)

It’s the weekend and that means I get to post whatever I want [editor's note: this is false]. So I’m going to barrage GamesBeat with some of my various favorite gaming culture discoveries, starting with this delightfully morbid …

Photos show the cultural difference between Black Hat and Defcon hacker events

Thousands of security professionals, hackers, federal agents and media descended on Las Vegas this week to attend the Black Hat and Defcon conferences. The two conferences exhibit the extremes of hacker and security culture, with federal agents and major corporations …

The Taliban start to embrace Twitter

It was only a matter of time before the tools of technology fell into the hands of America’s enemies. The Taliban have begun to embrace the microblogging platform of Twitter, according to the Guardian.

That’s a big switch, considering most …

23 insights from the Netflix culture deck

(Editor’s note: Dharmesh Shah is a serial software entrepreneur and the founder and CTO of HubSpot, which provides marketing software for small businesses. This column originally appeared on his blog. )

If you have time to read one document on …