Because We’ve Always Done It This Way The combination of Venture Capital and technology startups is only about 50 years old. Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. Yet boards of large companies exist to monitor efficient strategy and execution of...
Daily Archives: June 13, 2011
The New Notifications On iPhone Are A Boon To Foursquare (AAPL)
Image: Dan Frommer, Business Insider The latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 5, is a boon to Foursquare because it will drive up usage heavily. How do we know this? First, let’s backtrack and look at what made Foursquare so successful. The idea of some sort of mobile/location-based social network has been...
Meet Sung-Bong Choi: South Korea’s Susan Boyle
This is one of the most amazing and touching videos we’ve seen in a while, and we’re not going to spoil it by telling you much instead of to watch it. It also shows how amazing the internet is because it lets things like this cross borders to us. (Via Chris Dixon Hunch) Don’t...
The 9 Most Important Things to Remember If You Want to Sell Your Startup
Don’t BS me. Everyone wants to sell their startup. We all pay lip service to building a billion dollar Groupon but in general that’s a lie. Even Larry Page and Sergey Brin wanted to sell Google to Yahoo for $1 million within ten seconds of starting their company. And Yahoo said, “No”. As soon...