Web 2.0 Summit: MadeIt, Nokia’s new phone, and Zennstrom’s disappearance
Web 2.0 Summit, co-hosted by O’Reilly Media and CMP, kicks off this Wednesday at San Francisco’s Palace Hotel. A who’s who list of Web 2.0 digerati will converge for three days of deal making, partying and more deal making.
If you didn’t have the budget to nab one of the $3,595 tickets for the event, fret not – VentureBeat reporters will be on hand to bring you frontline dispatches.
In preparation for the event, here’s a quick… Continue Reading
Start-up advice for entrepreneurs, from Y Combinator Startup School
Here’s a summary of the more compelling tips given by several tech industry luminaries — including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Gmail creator Paul Buchheit, Sequoia Capital venture capitalist Greg McAdoo — at the Y Combinator Startup School event at Stanford this weekend.
The event attracted more than 650 aspiring entrepreneurs. Mark Coker, a VentureBeat contributing writer, was on hand and here are his notes.
FaceBook’s Mark Zuckerberg: Hire only young technical people
FaceBook’s founder and CEO, 22-year old… Continue Reading
Facebook opens to the masses
Facebook, the social networking site that until now has been reserved mostly for college and high-school students, is preparing to throw open its gates to the great unwashed, the hoi polloi.
We’ve been briefed on the move. Facebook is saying in its briefing — sent earlier in the form of a statement to a few people, and followed up with a phone call — that the move will also keep Facebook’s network closed: “Closed Network Structure… Continue Reading