If social media mattered in elections, Ron Paul would have a realistic shot at being the Republican nominee and Barack Obama would be on track to crush Mitt Romney in the biggest landslide in American history. Despite the hype over follower counts, a new study shows that there’s no credible evidence that Twitter can...
I had no idea that Mark Zuckerberg’s hoodie would be such a big deal. I bet you even he didn’t think it would be such a big deal. Now don’t get me wrong: thanks to Mark, coders/hackers all around the world have proudly incorporated hoodies into their uniform. Even wannaprenuers started toting hoodies to...
The names, at least, sound like a match made in heaven — BetaBait says it has acquired BetaNoodle. And actually, the products sound like a good fit, too. BetaBait connects startups with early users through its website and email newsletter. BetaNoodle hasn’t launched yet, but it’s supposed to be an app doing something similar, but...
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The Samwer brothers are notorious for cloning popular companies overseas and building a userbase, hoping to sell it back to the company that it cloned. Someone thought it would be funny if the infamous brothers were to set up their own version of Y Combinator, called “Z Kombinator” of course. This parody site is...
Remember that scraping sound floppy disk drives used to make looking for the right spot on the disk? That sound is the stuff of music. Who knew? MrSolidSnake745 has an entire channel featuring music-making drives. He’s done 44 floppy-drive videos, viewed almost 4 million times. But the YouTube video below is the best. It’s...
For all you Helvetica lovers out there (myself included, although we are taking a break), French design student and illustrator René Mambembe has managed to turn the Helvetica alphabet into iconic super heroes and villains, while still keeping with the original characters (pun intended). As you can see below, everything from the Hulk to Alien and Dr. Octopus...
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When a celebrity we have paid so much attention to for so long passes away, we tend to honor them in any way we see fit. Some of us tweet, some of us listen to their music or watch or their movies. According to personal social network app Path, the day that Beastie Boys...
When Steve Blank talks about entrepreneurship, people listen. When he writes a book on the subject, like his latest effort with co-author Bob Dorff titled The Startup Owner’s Manual, it’s a good bet it will be on many founders’ bookshelves. Blank co-founded the CRM software company E.piphany and the video game business Rocket Science....
As a first time CEO, there were times when I would sit at my desk and think, “What should I be doing today?” This feeling was especially strong after every financing round closed. After our seed round, we had defined the product and the engineers were coding it. I didn’t code. After I hired...