The Apple collection: Secret Stanford warehouse houses company history

The Apple collection: Secret Stanford warehouse houses company history

Thirty-five years of Apple memorabilia make up a museum-like collection of company archives that are hidden away in an off-campus Stanford University warehouse.

Stanford’s Apple Collection takes up more than 600 feet of shelf space in a climate-controlled facility at a location kept secret from the public, said the Associated Press, which paid a visit to the archives.

Should you ever be let in — and one can only dream at this point — you … Continue Reading

Salesforce.com promotes EVP George Hu to COO post

Salesforce.com promotes EVP George Hu to COO post

Salesforce.com has elevated Executive Vice President George Hu to the role of chief operating officer, the company announced today.

Salesforce.com did not have a COO (in name at least) previously, which is a little peculiar for such a high-profile company. Hu will still report directly to larger-than-life Salesforce CEO and chairman Marc Benioff. (On a related note, Salesforce.com’s general manager and executive vice president Byron Sebastian will be speaking at CloudBeat 2011, VentureBeat’s upcoming cloud … Continue Reading

Stellar students: Present at Stanford for a spot at DEMO

Stellar students: Present at Stanford for a spot at DEMO

You know how “whipper snappers” always tend to know how to use those “new fangled” devices? We think they are ahead of the curve as well. That is why DEMO created AlphaPitch for College and is extending its talent search to Stanford on July 20th.

We have teamed up with Stanford’s StartX, a heralded startup accelerator for Stanford student entrepreneurs to discover technologies that only still-growing brains can think up.

Students will have an opportunity … Continue Reading

Proposed: The boardroom for the 21st century

Proposed: The boardroom for the 21st century

(Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany. This story originally appeared on his blog.)

Last week, I made a call to entrepreneurs that it is time to change the boardroom structure. Startups, after all, have evolved over the past 20 years, but boardrooms haven’t.

Startups now understand what they should be doing in their early formative days is search for a business model. The … Continue Reading

Foursquare extends location-based check-ins to college campuses

Foursquare extends location-based check-ins to college campuses

In an effort to extend its reach to college students, burgeoning location check-in service Foursquare announced its “Foursquare for Universities” program today. The program looks to help students and staff connect with each other and explore their campus by offering its popular site-wide check-in, tips, and badges offering in a centralized, targeted way.

The startup has partnered with 20 universities for its launch, out of which it is launching pages for Harvard, Stanford, and Syracuse … Continue Reading

The perfect startup team? Grey hair and Mohawks

Foursquare extends location-based check-ins to college campuses

In an effort to extend its reach to college students, burgeoning location check-in service Foursquare announced its “Foursquare for Universities” program today. The program looks to help students and staff connect with each other and explore their campus by offering its popular site-wide check-in, tips, and badges offering in a centralized, targeted way.

The startup has partnered with 20 universities for its launch, out of which it is launching pages for Harvard, Stanford, and Syracuse … Continue Reading

Entrepreneur Idol competition shows digital media is hot — perhaps too hot

Foursquare extends location-based check-ins to college campuses

In an effort to extend its reach to college students, burgeoning location check-in service Foursquare announced its “Foursquare for Universities” program today. The program looks to help students and staff connect with each other and explore their campus by offering its popular site-wide check-in, tips, and badges offering in a centralized, targeted way.

The startup has partnered with 20 universities for its launch, out of which it is launching pages for Harvard, Stanford, and Syracuse … Continue Reading