Canada’s startup visa program in ‘hyperdrive’ but U.S. is ‘dysfunctional’ (interview)

Give me your smart, your educated, your startup founders yearning to build companies?

Silicon Valley VC confidence up for third straight quarter — and angels are ‘filling the hole’

"That's the hope for the future, that Silicon Valley continues to attract many of the best and brightest of the entrepreneurs around the world."

What’s the best age to launch a startup? Founders young and old tell us

What's it like to start a company as a teen, a twentysomething, or much later in life? We spoke to founders of all ages at tech companies like Box, Poshmark, and Hubspot. Here's what they had to say.

Startup Act 3.0 would permit 75,000 immigrant founders to come to the U.S. for 3 years

Getting technical and entrepreneurial talent into the U.S. may be a lot easier very soon if a bipartisan group of senators manage to get the Startup Act 3.0 passed. Unfortunately, versions 1.0 and 2.0 died slow and silent deaths.

Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv, L.A., Seattle, and NYC lead top 20 tech hubs on the planet

The Startup Genome has analyzed 50,000 startups around the world to create what it is calling the first "data-driven ranking" of the top 20 tech hubs on the planet.

Anatomy of a Demo Day: FounderFuel’s fall 2012 cohort graduates (in pictures)

You've got five minutes -- the most important five minutes of your life. Everything comes down to this.

How three Dubliners created F.ounders, a ‘Davos for geeks’

How did F.ounder's organizers -- a self-described failed entrepreneur, freelance journalist and unemployed asset manager -- with no background in technology, convince some of the world's top entrepreneurs to come to an unknown event at the far edge of Europe?

‘Broforce’: 7 startup CEOs now working (out) at Salesforce.com (gallery)

Salesforce, the enterprise software giant, has been on a buying spree, and in recent years, it has welcomed almost a dozen dashing founders and CEOs into its corporate sanctuary in San Francisco. Here are seven of them.

Tech Hub Envy, or why you should stop trying to be Silicon Valley

Is Silicon Valley still the one tech hub to rule them all? And will it remain so in the future?

Techcrunch just posted some  new research from the Startup Compass on the world’s top tech hubs and their defining characteristics. …

Dublin: Europe's next startup petri dish?

Startup Bootcamp, a European startup accelerator network and Techstars affiliate, just added Dublin to its existing locations of Copenhagen and Madrid. London and Berlin will follow in 2012.

Ireland’s tech scene continues to expand in spite of the woeful state …