How to Be an Effective CEO This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here . First-time entrepreneurs are usually also first-time CEOs. When you look at your first business card that says CEO, don't fo 07-22-2009 Tags business, google, startup 101
Dice Reports Murky Waters For Tech Jobs After months of dismal unemployment numbers, this morning’s continued growth in the unemployment rate from 9.4% in May to 9.5% for the month of June reinforces the fact that the U.S. is still very much in the midst of recession. Additionally, the U. 07-22-2009 Tags dice.com, google
Stealth Startup Udorse Raises $500k From Founders Fund Udorse , a New York-based startup currently in stealth, has raised a $500,000 round of seed funding from Founders Fund . Founders Fund’s Peter Thiel will be serving on the company’s board of directors. At this point we know very little about t 07-09-2009 Tags google, udorse
Nokia N97 Hands On Nokia is a in a really weird place right now. They’re the #1 handset manufacturer in the world, yet we’d all be lying if we said they didn’t have to work to stay there. RIM and Apple are the new wonder boys and they are steadily stealing 07-06-2009 Tags 5 megapixel, apple, bg's corner, edge, google, gprs, gsm, nokia, wi-fi, windows
How Mathew Ingram Manages a News Site That Gets 5,000 Comments a Day Mathew Ingram is the Communities Editor at the Toronto-based Globe And Mail , Canada's biggest newspaper. He's a traditionally-trained reporter, but he's got years of experience blogging and using experimental new services, so he has one foot planted f 07-05-2009 Tags google, technology, twitter
Google News May Add Wikipedia as a Source Some users are being shown links to Wikipedia articles about current events clustered in the lists of sources on Google News , Google confirmed today. Those collaboratively written and edited pages will now sit side by side with professional news reportin 07-04-2009 Tags google, professional news, wikipedia
Facebook is Getting Vanity URLs: Get Yours on Saturday at 12:01am EDT We heard rumors about this for at least the last couple of weeks, but today, Facebook finally announced that it will allow users to pick and choose their own vanity URLs. Instead of http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=432123451 , you will now be able t 07-02-2009 Tags facebook, google
CorpWatch Makes SEC Data Accessible with an API and the CrocTail Application With backing from the Sunlight Founation , non-profit CorpWatch launched CrocTail yesterday, an application to provide easy access to data from several hundred thousand publicly traded companies. We heard about it via Dion Hinchcliffe , a respected enterp 07-02-2009 Tags google, launch
A Recipe Site Goes IPO, In Japan (Cookpad) It seems that even in this downturn, there is still room for tech IPOs, at least in Japan. Cookpad , the nation’s biggest site for sharing recipes, today announced it will be listed in the “Mothers” section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange on 07-02-2009 Tags cookpad, google, launch
StumbleUpon Launches Su.pr URL Shortener, But Is It Good for the Magic? Social serendipity service StumbleUpon began opening up its new URL shortening service this morning and we have 250 invites included below. StumbleUpon is great for two things: discovering fabulous new websites and getting waves of traffic sent to sites y 06-26-2009 Tags google, launch, nyt, social
Is Zipcar planning an IPO? Depends who you ask A bit of a kerfluffle has sprung up around car-sharing service Zipcar , and whether Bloomberg misquoted chief executive Scott Griffith that he’s planning an initial public offering for 2010. You’d think it would be a relatively easy dispute to 06-16-2009 Tags google
Solazyme wins big with $57M for renewable oil Solazyme , producer of renewable oil derived from algae, just raised $57 million in third-round funding to bring its total capital to more than $76 million . In addition to producing so-called green fuels, the San Bruno, Calif. company is expanding its ec 06-13-2009 Tags business, google, mic
Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook Announced I think of this as a love story, began Chris Vander Mey, Senior Product Manager at Google, as he announced Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook , a plug-in that syncs Outlook with Apps, much like Outlook syncs with Exchange. But love? Not so much. Googl 06-10-2009 Tags apps, google, mic, microsoft
