‘We’re no rock stars’: Meet Silicon Valley’s tech talent agents (interview)

A San Francisco-based agency called 10x Management is among the first to bring a Hollywood agency model to the tech industry.

At Change.org, entrepreneurs are building the tools for social activism

Step into the San Francisco offices of Change.org, the online petitioning site that is arming ordinary people with the tools to start revolutions, and you'll be swept up by the mission.

Survey reveals techies, not hippies, dominate Burning Man

Would you believe that your typical costume-wearing, drugged-out attendee at Burning Man, is almost as likely to vote Republican as Democratic or Independent? And probably works 9 to 5 in the computers or technology field, the most well-represented profession at the festival?

Sick of sitting, tech entrepreneurs hack and sell standing desks

Seeking relief from back pain, some of the most pragmatic solutions to hit the market were built by tech entrepreneurs in their spare time.

Nuggets of wisdom from Silicon Valley’s top teens in tech

Teens in Tech, an annual conference in Silicon Valley, celebrates the elite and high-powered designers and programmers in the industry that are too young to swig a beer.

Here’s what we REALLY thought about this week’s news (video)

Skyrim is awesome; Pinterest users need to calm the hell down; and Facebook users need to stay away from the gun cabinet.

In this week’s episode of VB Weekly, the VentureBeat writing staff takes a front seat, with a range …

Why grown women, not just girls, need more tech role models

This week, we had Meebo CTO and co-founder Sandy Jen come into the VentureBeat studio to talk about women and tech.

We’ve featured a few strong and opinionated women CEOs and CTOs in our videos lately, because we think it’s …

Why more women aren’t working in tech (hint: it’s not just education)

Even if women and men were graduating in equal numbers from technology and engineering degree programs, the technology industry would still favor men.

According to a new report from the Level Playing Field Institute, IT workplaces, including tech startups, can …

How to turn women philanthropists into tech investors (video)

We all know that tech investment needs more women, and Natalia Oberti Noguera thinks that female philanthropists are ripe for the training.

We recently had Noguera into the VentureBeat office to chat about overarching issues of women and technology. In …

Silicon Valley VC Tim Draper: “U.S. just dropped a notch”

The biggest question on every mind in Silicon Valley relates to our collective worst nightmare: Could a macroeconomic collapse trigger another dotcom-esque bust?

For at least one VC, Draper Fisher Jurvetson partner Tim Draper, the market for U.S. startups just …