Startups Should Startups Pitch Associates For Funding? As an entrepreneur raising funding, it's easy to get into the mentality of pitching to anyone who will listen, but an active discussion amongst the investment community has sparked considerable debate on whether or not entrepreneurs should be more respectful of the chain of command. Should startups be pitching associates directly or should they… Dana Oshiro View comments
Twitter Twitter's Open Engineering Initiative Gets Official Launch For the past couple weeks, we've been following some interesting developments with Twitter - things that most end users probably would not know or care about. As we suspected, the quickly growing company is putting more emphasis on engineering, taking "steps... to make our engineering division more open and transparent," according to the team's… Social Jolie O'Dell View comments
Tips Hunch's Caterina Fake On Fusing Ideas With Teams In our recent discussions of branding for startups and entrepreneurs, we've mentioned that marketing and branding is always harder to do when what you're trying to sell isn't a quality product. Successful startup products tend to fit into an equation involving the ideas and the people who are executing those ideas. Caterina Fake, co-founder of… Chris Cameron View comments
Trends Spot.Us: Lend Journalism a Helping Hand All across the country, newspapers are shuttering and those that remain are closing down bureaus and pulling correspondents left and right. More and more, media outlets are relying on fewer sources for their information because of a lack of funding, but a number of websites have appeared to solve this problem. One such crowd-funded website… Mike Melanson View comments
Browsers YouTube Puts Another Nail in the IE6 Coffin We have to say that you know the end is near when entire countries advise their citizens to move on, but the final kicker comes when Google says that it will no longer support the browser that's been with us for nearly a decade. Google-owned YouTube will end support for Internet Explorer 6 on March 13, just two weeks after ending support on Google… Mike Melanson View comments