StartUp 101 How Not to Screw Up Your Startup Presentation It’s the moment every startup founder dreams about. You’ve spent countless days and nights, sacrificed your personal life and most likely tossed in your life savings - just for the chance to make this presentation. Whether it’s to a bank, potential investors or possible partners, it has to be pitch-perfect. You may not get a second chance… Rieva Lesonsky View comments
Web Culture A New Slew of Tech Layoffs Reminds Us that No Lead Is Ever Safe By many indications, things are going well for the tech industry. Mobile and cloud services are taking off. Apple, the comeback story of the century, is insanely profitable. Facebook is a public company, never mind its stock slide. So why the heck is HP slicing 27,000 jobs? Why are promising startups slashing headcount or going belly-up? That's… Dan Frommer View comments
Facebook Brands Step Up Open Graph Efforts on Facebook Brands are increasingly abandoning efforts to get users to “like” their Facebook pages and instead focusing their marketing efforts on Open Graph, the protocol Facebook uses to reflect third-party app use in a user's social activity. Social Dave Copeland View comments
Business Executives, not Employees, are Driving the Consumer Tech in the Enterprise Corporate IT is in turmoil as users shift from company-issue hardware and software to consumer offerings. Tech marketers like to think that employees are leading the way, but a pair of Forrester surveys reveal that executives are driving the change. And they're listening more to their customers than their employees. Enterprise Scott M. Fulton View comments
Facebook Facebook's Acquisition of Face.com Gives a New Look to Search With Facebook’s acquisition of Face.com reportedly a done deal, all of the focus is on what the merger will do for Facebook’s mobile efforts. But there may be more to the deal than just mobile. Social Dave Copeland View comments