“How do you make lightning strike four times?” That’s the question that I asked filmmaker Sally Nellson/Barrett on day 1 of Big Omaha. I had the pleasure of meeting Sally at last year’s event, and she walked up and hugged me like an old friend. It’s still the most important conference you’ve never attended, and...
Startups can often barely afford proper office space, marketing budgets or, according to Mark Zuckerberg, even the time to write a business plan. In an always-be-shipping environment, it’s challenging enough to manage the traditional bottom line of profits, let alone the “triple bottom line” of social and environmental impacts. But increasingly, tech startups and...
Right now, it feels like more people want to learn to code than ever before. This may be due to the drought of talented developers and all the available jobs, or the allure of working in the startup scene. These reasons are probably relevant, but I believe the most important driving factor is a...
Editor’s note: Andy Hickl is the co-founder and CEO of A.R.O., a stealth mode Seattle startup. He previously served as CEO and chief scientist of Language Computer Corporation and as co-founder and CEO of Swingly. Follow him on Twitter @andyhickl. Did you hear that 2012 is the year of the assistant? It’s clear: Siri...
A raft of startups have built their businesses around tracking pay-as-you-go cloud costs for customers. Amazon, king of the cloud, has been paying attention. The company just added alerting capabilities that will flag unexpectedly heavy usage of Amazon Web Services. For customers that enable them, that could mean avoiding unpleasant surprises when the bill comes due. The...
Editor’s note: Sunil Rajaraman is the co-founder and CEO of Scripted.com, a marketplace for businesses to hire freelance writers. Follow him on Twitter @subes01. When I talk to my friends who are not currently at startups, or the Silicon Valley, the perception is that VCs and individual investors are throwing around investment dollars like...
Yodel Anecdotal Finally, a new Yahoo. See Also New Yahoo CEO: “Embrace Change” THOMPSON STEPS DOWN AS YAHOO CEO Meet Ross Levinsohn, Yahoo’s Sixth CEO In Five Years Today’s events at Yahoo have the potential to be a major positive turning point for the company. First, Yahoo’s dysfunctional board actually moved relatively quickly to...
Over the weekend, Yahoo!’s embattled CEO Scott Thompson finally did the honorable thing and stood down. Ex-President of News Corp’s Fox Interactive Media division, Ross Levinsohn, has been named interim Chief Executive Officer. Hedge fund shareholder Daniel Loeb – whose firm Third Point owned 5.8% of Yahoo – and his three cronies have effectively...
Editor’s note: Scott Edward Walker is the founder and CEO of Walker Corporate Law Group, a boutique corporate law firm specializing in the representation of entrepreneurs. Check out his blog or follow him on Twitter as @ScottEdWalker. This post is the third part of a three-part primer on convertible note seed financings. Part 1, entitled...
See Also THOMPSON STEPS DOWN AS YAHOO CEO Meet Ross Levinsohn, Yahoo’s Sixth CEO In Five Years These Execs Are Running Yahoo While They Look For A New CEO Yahoo’s interim CEO, Ross Levinsohn, just sent a memo to the company. Of course, it was immediately leaked to AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher. The key points:...