Google hires a senior director at Apple for a top secret project (exclusive)
Google has pulled off a coup by hiring an Apple senior director of product integrity for a secret project, VentureBeat has learned.
The recruiting feat is historic since Google has never hired such a senior person away from Apple. The hiring is also interesting because the Department of Justice is investigating Google and Apple for allegedly working out a “no poach” agreement where the companies — along with Pixar, Lucasfilm, Intel and Intuit — allegedly … Continue Reading
Why women have a hard time raising money for startups, part 1 (video)
Every now and then, we hear from a female startup-founder who says she’s having a hard time raising money. She can’t quite figure out if it’s her idea or her slide deck or — and no one wants to think this — if it’s simply the fact that she’s a woman pitching an idea to a roomful of male investors.
Women 2.0 CEO and co-founder Shaherose Charania came into VentureBeat’s studio to chat about a … Continue Reading
How VCs can solve the woman problem, if there is one
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 great at seeing an opening market and jumping on it.
Second, women are not victims. Women are not powerless. If women wanted to do tech startups, they’d be doing them.
Women don’t want to do … Continue Reading
Four takeaways for startups from this week’s Adobe-Auditude acquisition
Adobe acquired Auditude, a platform for monetizing premium video content, on Tuesday.
Not many startups get to such a positive outcome, even after years of work. So how do you successfully navigate scaling up a company and interacting with potential acquirers?
The two of us were investors in Auditude, and we sat on its board for the past several years. We’re excited about this outcome, which reflects the hard work of the entire team at … Continue Reading
How one woman technologist single-handedly created thousands of jobs
Leah Busque, founder of TaskRabbit, is passionate about creating a community of “micro-entrepreneurs” — people who work autonomously on a part-time or full-time basis.
Her company, which only operates in a limited number of geographic areas so far, has already created several thousand opportunities for this kind of work. On the site, people list their needs for help with specific tasks, from running errands to moving furniture. Other people, called “taskrabbits,” get the job done … Continue Reading
How to know when to leave your startup
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 entry into the workforce would be a total shock to employers. I was labeled a heretic and a moron.
But pretty quickly, people started thinking I was right. And I started making $15,000 a speech … Continue Reading
Demo: Reid Hoffman gives advice for entrepreneurs (video)
LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman might be one of the most successful entrepreneurs to emerge from the post-dot-com era, and today he shared some of the secrets to his success.
Hoffman started LinkedIn on May 5, 2003 and took the company public on May 19, 2011, an exit that made him a billionaire. Today he’s an investor, an entrepreneur and knows how the system works.
“One of the things that makes entrepreneurship difficult is that there … Continue Reading
Vinod Khosla says get rid of experts and invent the future you want (video)
Vinod Khosla‘s advice for entrepreneurs is to ignore the experts and invent the future you want. That’s what he told the graduating class of Singularity University last week in a closing speech.
He said entrepreneurs will catch a lot of criticism for ignoring the experts and yet they should plow forward anyway. Khosla, founder of venture firm Khosla Ventures, is one of the most successful venture capitalists of our time, having invested in companies such … Continue Reading
Entrepreneur of the year finalists enter prestigious circle
This sponsored post is part of a series of profiles on Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” finalists. Click here to keep up with the rest of the series.
VentureBeat recently teamed up with Ernst & Young to profile a number of promising entrepreneurs.
These innovators, all from northern California, were finalists for prestigious E&Y’s Entrepreneur of the Year award, which is now in its 25th year.
The finalists are in company with … Continue Reading
Do teens make good founders? 6 teenage teams make their debut to find out
Teenage entrepreneurship gets a lot of press these days, and looking over the teams from the Teens In Tech incubator, it’s easy to see why.
These kids — nine out of thirteen founding team members are still in high school — are in many ways the opposite of their jaded, hoodie-clad SOMA counterparts, and they’re bringing great new ideas into the startup ecosystem. They’ve got unique approaches to problems most adults couldn’t even perceive, and … Continue Reading
Google Voice co-founder leaves for Google Ventures to do it all again
Craig Walker, a co-founder of Google Voice developer GrandCentral, has left the company to join Google Ventures as entrepreneur-in-residence and begin working on his next company.
The other co-founder of Google Voice, Vincent Paquet, will take the helm and lead the Google Voice project after Walker’s departure, Google Ventures partner David Krane confirmed to VentureBeat.
“We’re thrilled that Craig Walker will be (Google Venture’s) first EiR — he’s precisely the kind of passionate, talented, and … Continue Reading
Is it time to quit your day job?
Craig Walker, a co-founder of Google Voice developer GrandCentral, has left the company to join Google Ventures as entrepreneur-in-residence and begin working on his next company.
The other co-founder of Google Voice, Vincent Paquet, will take the helm and lead the Google Voice project after Walker’s departure, Google Ventures partner David Krane confirmed to VentureBeat.
“We’re thrilled that Craig Walker will be (Google Venture’s) first EiR — he’s precisely the kind of passionate, talented, and … Continue Reading
How to run a startup, Steve Newcomb-style: Naked Thursdays
Craig Walker, a co-founder of Google Voice developer GrandCentral, has left the company to join Google Ventures as entrepreneur-in-residence and begin working on his next company.
The other co-founder of Google Voice, Vincent Paquet, will take the helm and lead the Google Voice project after Walker’s departure, Google Ventures partner David Krane confirmed to VentureBeat.
“We’re thrilled that Craig Walker will be (Google Venture’s) first EiR — he’s precisely the kind of passionate, talented, and … Continue Reading
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