Tips Can Entrepreneurs Go It Alone Without Co-Founders? We've been talking a lot about founders and co-founders here on ReadWriteStart over the last week. We discussed the advantages of having a non-technical co-founder on your team, and noted ways these types of partners can best fit in with the code monkeys. But today, Geoff Lewis, founder of Topguest, has written a piece on Business Insider about how… Chris Cameron View comments
Product Reviews Why Does LinkedIn Keep Doing Things That Don't Make Sense? Professional social LinkedIn launched a new feature today that has tons of promise: the ability to follow new hires, departures, job postings and more at particular companies. It's pretty awesome to have a newsfeed of company updates across your sector of interest, as an employment-o-phile (I love hearing about people's jobs) this seems like a… Social Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Tips For the Long Haul: Do Founders Make Better CEOs? Ben Horowitz of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz wrote an interesting piece Wednesday on why he and partner Marc Andreessen look for strong founding CEOs when investing in companies. Founding CEOs are the kind of entrepreneurs that run their companies from the early development stages and are not replaced by a professional CEO as the… Chris Cameron View comments
Google Google Search Gets Virtual Keyboards for 35 Languages A little over a week and a half ago, a number of bloggers spotted a new feature in Google search for languages that use non-Latin scripts: virtual keyboards that make typing search queries in these languages easier. Today, Google officially announced that it will make virtual keyboards a default feature on Google search for 35 languages… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Product Reviews Tal.ki: Embeddable Forums In Seconds It used to be that every company out there, in trying to get visitors to stay on its website and make repeated visits, would have a forum. The traditional wisdom was that you needed to find a way to draw your users into a community to really interact with them. And so many websites, from magazines to consumer blogs to corporate sites, had… Mike Melanson View comments