On Monday, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced that 19 companies agreed to cease their practice of writing fake online reviews and pay hefty penalties for false advertising and deceptive b
I like working with grownups. Here's an example: When I was a wee little New Hire at my current employer, one of the things that came up a lot was the "15 minute rule." That is, if you're stuck on a p
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Ben Horowitz Download Photo Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The Hard Thing About Ha
When Twitter broke the news last week about its forthcoming IPO, I got a bit sentimental . In 2006, when Twitter was entering the world as a side project of the podcasting startup Odeo , I had just le
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There has never been a piece of press about our company that has been as personally rewarding as this story last week on Business Insider about the struggles and growing pains we’ve been going through lately. Since this article hit I have had dozens of startup founders reach out to me to talk about…
I'll never forget the first time I had to fire someone. I was a middle manager at a start-up in Minneapolis, ramping up a graphics, marketing, and writing department. I usually had a keen eye for tale
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Online Music Service Rdio in Deal With Cumulus The San Francisco offices of Rdio, founded by Skype. Cumulus, with its 525 stations, will give Rdio access to its programming. Credit... Jim Wilson/The N
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Ebay’s PayPal has acquired Chicago-based payments gateway Braintree , in an all-cash deal worth $800 million. We had originally reported that Braintree was on the block, with Square and PayPal both in
David Friedberg was driving home from his job at Google, stuck in traffic in the pouring rain. On the side of the road, he noticed a bike rental shop for tourists, shuttered early due to the weather.
Facebook made an announcement this week that I think went fairly unnoticed amidst all the Twitter IPO hoopla. For a while now Facebook has had the ability to drive installs via their mobile app ads. W
Dangerous Advice This essay is inspired by this week’s Startup Edition topic, “ Where do you get advice? ” Startup advice is everywhere. Books, blogs, podcasts, comment threads, and face-to-face conve
Alongside the introduction of Apple’s latest mobile operating system iOS 7, the company also rolled out its answer to the NFC technology it has gone out of its way to avoid in iPhones, iPads and iPod
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Google has updated its Glass wearable with public transit directions, with firmware XE10 turning the headset into a city navigator, though the much-anticipated local app support is still missing. The
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With over $1 billion in sales in only three days , Grand Theft Auto V is already most successful game in history. But its online multiplayer mode, which went live yesterday, may re-write the rules for
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Rational Consumer Sep 16, 2013 What about exit interviews while exiting an investment? Or is the exit event itself proxy to how the relationship turned out? fredwilson Sep 16, 2013 that’s a great sugg
The government shutdown has revealed the impressive skill of tea party Republicans to say untrue things with sincerity so convincing that they almost sound as if they believe what they are saying. Mic
Developers eagerly working on services for the Google Glass headset finally have a clear avenue for release, now that the Glassware Review Process is ready. By completing the steps listed, they can re
I read something on the Internet one recent evening that made a brief and tangential reference to a serial killer preying on Marines in Southern California in the 1970s and early ’80s. Having been sta
Upon hearing that Miley Cyrus had cited her as an influence, Sinead O’Connor was compelled to reach out to the younger pop star in an open letter. O’Connor, no stranger to controversy, the pitfalls of stardom, or the dark and manipulative side of the music industry, has taken the opportunity to warn…
Do you wish you could live the Silicon Valley VC lifestyle? The glamor? The apps? The yacht racing and indifference to humanity? Thanks to recent legislative changes, you can't actually have money to
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The ambitious -- some would say quixotic -- project is the latest chapter of McAfee's colorful life.
The anti-virus software pioneer's antics have included his widely publicized flight last year from Belize, where he remains wanted as a "person of interest" in the shooting…
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g and following. A lead investor sets the price and terms of the investment, takes a large part of the round, and usually agrees to represent the entire round on the board. Then everyone else gets to pile in behind them and piggyback on all of that work. And the entrepreneur and lead investor allow…
Like a lot of people, I’m excited about crowdfunding, and specifically the crowdfunding of startups now that’s it’s legal in the US. Based on my own experience investing in startups, here are some thoughts and issues that come to mind regarding startup crowdfunding. 1. Startup financings tend toward…
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Metropolitan Police A British codebreaker who died amysterious death in his flat two years ago had just returned from acomputer security conference in the United States before his death,according to information disclosed during an inquest this week. The body of Gareth Williams, a codebreaker with…
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Published in Bicycle for the Mind · 5 min read · Sep 17, 2013 -- I’m a long time Mac developer who started with Objective-C in 2000 on Mac OS X Public Beta (remember how slow that thing was!) and I’ve
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