There’s a lot of talk about Silicon Valley vs Silicon Alley. Let’s be honest: New York startups head west for the Silicon Valley investors. Silicon Valley companies open offices here for the access to the wealth of established industries that only New York offers. As for the rivalry: enough already, although one thing that the […]
Stanford University
A Talk With Janusz Bryzek: The Father of Sensors
The verdict is in: we are moving toward an ever more connected, interactive, and intelligent world. At the front of that move is an accelerating sensor market that promises to fundamentally change the way we approach medicine, communications, renewable energy, and a great deal more. It was good fortune, then, that I was recently able […]
Where You Should Have Gone to College To Get Funding
Entrepreneur hopefuls need to take a close look at the university they chose to attend. The University Entrepreneurship Report by Accounting Degree compared funding and deals pulled in from the graduates from six universities. Combined, alumni from Stanford, Harvard, UC Berkeley, NYU, U Penn, and MIT raised $12.6 billion across 559 deals. While Stanford is […]
Working Remotely is Good for You and Good for Business
Marissa Mayer was five months pregnant when she began serving as the CEO of Yahoo!, and her employees expected their new boss would adopt a family-oriented approach to running the company. However, the charismatic corporate leader has been in the hot seat since announcing a ban on telecommuting for freelance writers, editors, and other members […]
A Chat with Super Angel Ron Conway
In 2011, Ron Conway was interviewed before an audience of graduate students at Stanford University to discuss investing in start-ups. Conway has been an angel investor for over 15 years and has had great success along the way. He spoke for almost an hour and offered up lot of valuable advice, conjured up from his […]
Marketing Gamification & Healthy Rewards; Learnings from Foursquare
I am not going to wax poetic on Zygna’s successes Farmville or Mafia Wars because they annoy me to no end and I wish people would stop herding sheep on Facebook because I think there are better ways to spend your time! As my Yelp profile says, “I have opinions,” and so I digress. What I […]