Forex to znane określenie , które używane jest odnośnie najważniejszego na chwilę obecną rynku pieniężnego na globie, który będzie miał międzynarodowy zakres. W minionym roku, jego obroty przekroczyły prawie 5bln $… w ciągu dwudziestu czterech godzin! Ewidentnie nie jest to ilość środków, które są rzeczywiście zaangażowane, przeciętnie są one kilkaset razy mniejsze, rynek ten i tak zarządzał będzie niebotycznymi pieniędzmi. Charakterystyczną cechą forexu jest fakt, że działa dwadzieścia cztery godziny na dobę i zamykany jest jedynie na weekend. Bardzo…
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Raising Money: What Not to Say and What Not to Believe #OfficeandGuyK
How to Change the World20 Jan 2012 | 10:46 amOver the past two weeks via my partnership with Microsoft and Office Web Apps, I’ve provided templates of models for you to create enchanting PowerPoint pitches, Word business plans, and Excel financial models. They are all available for you to download from my SkyDrive account. I hope these documents and blog posts help you save a boatload of time and increase the quality of your efforts.I leave you with two sets of top ten lies: one of entrepreneurs and one of investors so that you know what not to say and what not to believe. Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs “Our projections are… -
How do they know you're not a flake?
Seth's Blog8 Feb 2012 | 2:43 amBefore your link gets clicked or your proposal gets read, a busy person is going to triage it to find out if it's even worth glancing at. Since everyone is now connected, the new permeability has created a deluge of noise, and just about everyone worth contacting is taking defensive measures. Do I know this person? Did someone I trust send them over? Where does she work? (Ideo? the FDA? The New York Times?) Has she won an award? Is she famous? Are there typos and is the design sloppy? Are they pestering me? Do I already follow this person online? Does music play when I visit the website? Will… -
Hans Rosling: The Jedi Master of data visualization
Presentation Zen26 Jan 2012 | 11:31 pmDr. Hans Rosling is one of my presentation heroes; he's been featured or mentioned in all my books and several times on presentationzen.com over the years. If there is a Jedi Master of presenting data clearly, visually, and simply, then it is Hans. He proves time and time again, that data are not dull—and when you are trying to change the world, there is no excuse for boring presentations. Most people are aware of Dr. Rosling through his popular TED Talks, but just in case you've never seen him present, below is a nice 5-minute piece he did on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS. At TED.com you'll… -
New York City gets a Software Engineering High School
Joel on Software13 Jan 2012 | 11:56 amThis fall New York City will open The Academy for Software Engineering, the city’s first public high school that will actually train kids to develop software. The project has been a long time dream of Mike Zamansky, the highly-regarded CS teacher at New York’s elite Stuyvesant public high school. It was jump started when Fred Wilson, a VC at Union Square Ventures, promised to get the tech community to help with knowledge, advice, and money. I’m on the board of advisors of the new school, which plans to accept ninth graders for fall of 2012. Here’s why I’m excited about this new…
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8 Feb 2012 | 4:42 amForex to znane określenie , które używane jest odnośnie najważniejszego na chwilę obecną rynku pieniężnego na globie, który będzie miał międzynarodowy zakres. W minionym roku, jego obroty przekroczyły prawie 5bln $… w ciągu dwudziestu czterech godzin! Ewidentnie nie jest to ilość środków, które są rzeczywiście zaangażowane, przeciętnie są one kilkaset razy mniejsze, rynek ten i tak zarządzał będzie niebotycznymi pieniędzmi. Charakterystyczną cechą forexu jest fakt, że działa dwadzieścia cztery godziny na dobę i zamykany jest jedynie na weekend. Bardzo… -
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8 Feb 2012 | 3:12 amW nowoczesnym internecie coraz trudniej jest się wybić – potężna ilość stron internetowych sprawia, że wygranie sobie potężniejszej słway jest naprawdę trudne i bez posiadania stosownych umiejętności oraz wiedzy, będzie będzie graniczyło wręcz z cudem. Jeśli zależy Ci na odniesieniu sieciowego sukcesu, trafienia do jak największej cyfry możliwych klientów jak również zdobycia rzeczywistych zysków z powierzchni reklamowych, powinieneś postawić na optymalizację serwisów sieciowych pod wyszukiwarki! Kursy-seo jest stroną skierowaną właśnie do Ciebie –… -
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8 Feb 2012 | 2:28 amWitryna forex skierowana jest do każdych tych osób, które zainteresowane są funkcjonowaniem jak również najbardziej charakterystycznymi echami rynku walutowego forex. Dzięki dodawanym tutaj artykułom, będziesz cały czas na bieżąco, będziesz wiedział w co opłaca się w konkretnym momencie najbardziej i najagresywniej inwestować oraz jak rozwija się rynek forex w naszym państwie. Forex polska w naszym państwie daje coraz bardziej wartościowe sposobności udziałowcom oraz szanse na wygenerowanie realnych i stosownych zysków. Dzięki nam będziesz mógł rozpocząć… -
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7 Feb 2012 | 6:54 pmdifférence sac chan Le menu doit être soigneusement choisi et fait le vin. Si vous embauchez un planificateur de mariage, cela ne devrait pas être un problème, mais si vous n’êtes pas alors vous avez besoin de trouver un service différence sac chan de traiteur qui propose des plats savoureux à des prix bas. Vous pouvez les obtenir en ligne ou en différence sac chan visitant leurs bureaux et stores.Wedding planificateurs disposent de nombreuxdifférence sac chan moyens d’organiser une réception de mariage. Si vous choisissez de louer leurs services, vous n’aurez…
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How to Change the World
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Raising Money: What Not to Say and What Not to Believe #OfficeandGuyK
20 Jan 2012 | 10:46 amOver the past two weeks via my partnership with Microsoft and Office Web Apps, I’ve provided templates of models for you to create enchanting PowerPoint pitches, Word business plans, and Excel financial models. They are all available for you to download from my SkyDrive account. I hope these documents and blog posts help you save a boatload of time and increase the quality of your efforts.I leave you with two sets of top ten lies: one of entrepreneurs and one of investors so that you know what not to say and what not to believe. Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs “Our projections are… -
Design a Sam Adams beer
20 Jan 2012 | 8:24 amNow this is a fun project. I’m helping Sam Adams “tap” the knowledge of beer drinkers and crowd source its next brew. Join the party by getting the app and designing your beer: The final brew will be released in Austin in the first week of March. #sponsored -
How to Create an Enchanting Financial Forecast #OfficeandGuyK
17 Jan 2012 | 1:52 pmThis is the third post in my Microsoft partnership, and it’s all about numbers. The topic is crafting your financial forecast to include in your pitch. Bill Reichert, my partner at Garage Technology Ventures, created an Excel model and wrote this blog post. There’s a lesson in this too: Get the best person for the job. His grasp of financial models and how to present them exceeds mine by two orders of magnitude. The Purpose of Financial Projections When it comes to financial projections, there are two types of entrepreneurs: first, the “visionary entrepreneur” who… -
How to Create an Enchanting Business Plan #OfficeandGuyK
12 Jan 2012 | 8:16 amHere is the second post in my series about planning, pitching, and launching a new business venture. In partnership with Microsoft and Office Web Apps, I’ve created a Word document that outlines a good business plan. It’s saved to my SkyDrive folder here. Feel free to download it and use it as inspiration. And if you’re working with a partner, you can use the free Word Web App to stay in sync. I provided the PowerPoint document before the Word document because a good business plan is an elaboration of a good pitch as opposed to a good pitch being a distillation of good business plan. -
How to Create an Enchanting Pitch #OfficeandGuyK
9 Jan 2012 | 8:01 amWelcome to the first in a series of blog posts I’ll be doing as part of a partnership with Microsoft and Office Web Apps. Over the next two weeks, I’ll cover everything a budding entrepreneur needs to turn an idea into an enchanting investment opportunity—from the perfect pitch to a killer business plan to financial forecasts. I’m going to start with a little dissertation on creating effective PowerPoint pitches for your company. I embedded the sample deck for you to click through by using the PowerPoint Web App. When you’re ready to get started, you can download the…
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How do they know you're not a flake?
8 Feb 2012 | 2:43 amBefore your link gets clicked or your proposal gets read, a busy person is going to triage it to find out if it's even worth glancing at. Since everyone is now connected, the new permeability has created a deluge of noise, and just about everyone worth contacting is taking defensive measures. Do I know this person? Did someone I trust send them over? Where does she work? (Ideo? the FDA? The New York Times?) Has she won an award? Is she famous? Are there typos and is the design sloppy? Are they pestering me? Do I already follow this person online? Does music play when I visit the website? Will… -
Horizontal marketing isn't a new idea
7 Feb 2012 | 2:09 amBut it is the new reality for just about every organization. Vertical marketing means the marketer (the one with money) is in charge. Vertical marketing starts at the top and involves running ads, sending out direct mail and pushing hype through the media. Your money, your plans, your control. It might not work, but generally the worst outcome is that you will be ignored and need to spend more money. Horizonal marketing, on the other hand, means creating a remarkable product and story and setting it up to spread from person to person. It's out of your control, because all the interactions are… -
Who is your customer?
6 Feb 2012 | 2:26 amRule one: You can build a business on the foundation of great customer service. Rule two: The only way to do great customer service is to treat different customers differently. The question: Who is your customer? It's not obvious. Zappos is a classic customer service company, and their customer is the person who buys the shoes. Nike, on the other hand, doesn't care very much at all about the people who buy the shoes, or even the retailers. They care about the athletes (often famous) that wear the shoes, sometimes for money. They name buildings after these athletes, court them, erect… -
In search of a timid trapeze artist
5 Feb 2012 | 2:01 amGood luck with that, there aren't any. If you hesitate when leaping from rope to another, you're not going to last very long. And this is at the heart of what makes innovation work in organizations, why industries die, and how painful it is to try to maintain the status quo while also participating in a revolution. Gather up as much speed as you can, find a path and let go. You can't get to the next rope if you're still holding on to this one. -
Will energy consumption stay private?
4 Feb 2012 | 11:45 amIt's clear that the consumption of energy has external effects that impact more than just the person who is paying for it. Geopolitical, health and economic issues come to the neighbors and nearby citizens of entities that are using a lot of power. It was always straightforward to see who was burning a lot of wood or drove a huge car. It's easy to see when a company has a huge smokestake belching carbon. What happens when sensors make it easy to see how efficient a machine is, how much of a resource is being consumed and how much exhaust is being spewed? What happens when Google maps shows…
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Presentation Zen
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Hans Rosling: The Jedi Master of data visualization
26 Jan 2012 | 11:31 pmDr. Hans Rosling is one of my presentation heroes; he's been featured or mentioned in all my books and several times on presentationzen.com over the years. If there is a Jedi Master of presenting data clearly, visually, and simply, then it is Hans. He proves time and time again, that data are not dull—and when you are trying to change the world, there is no excuse for boring presentations. Most people are aware of Dr. Rosling through his popular TED Talks, but just in case you've never seen him present, below is a nice 5-minute piece he did on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS. At TED.com you'll… -
New: Presentation Zen (2nd Edition)
18 Jan 2012 | 10:36 pmFour years ago my first book Presentation Zen was published by Peachpit Press. Since then I wrote two other presentation books and a sketchbook/storyboard book and a DVD (plus an additional DVD/Book just for Japan). Although a lot of time had passed, I was still happy with the original Presentation Zen. And yet, the original Presentation Zen book could benefit from a little freshening up in the form of a 2nd edition for 2012. This 2nd edition of Presentation Zen has the same look and feel as the original book and I still did all the design and layout myself. The biggest difference is the book… -
10 great books to help you think, create, & communicate better in 2012
10 Jan 2012 | 4:54 amIn the spirit of personal kaizen, I have listed below a few books that I read (or reread) over the past year that you may want to read as part of your own continuous improvement journey. (Clicking on the book's icon takes you to Amazon.com.) (1) Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long. Over the last 10-20 years scientists have made many remarkable discoveries concerning the brain and how it works. David Rock is not a neuroscientist but he is a good "neurotranslator" of the scientific evidence and does a good job of… -
Progress and the intentional selection of less
30 Dec 2011 | 5:26 pmMany people today talk about presentation technology as if it were a panacea for boring lectures and ineffective presentations. Technologies such as our laptops, iPads, and cool software packages are wonderful tools that can, when used well, increase the quality of communication and engagement. This is especially true when we need to engage with people live on the other side of the planet via tools like video conferencing, webinars, Skype, and so on. However, while technology has evolved in dramatic ways over the last generation, our deep human need for visceral connections, and personal… -
Steve Jobs: "People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint"
20 Dec 2011 | 5:12 amOne thing we need to constantly remind ourselves is that slides and other forms of projected visualization—no matter how "cool" they may be—are not appropriate for every context. Multimedia is great for presentations before large groups such as keynote addresses or conference presentations, but in meetings where you want to actively discuss issues or go over details in depth, slides—especially the snooze-inducing bulletpoint variety, which are never a good idea—are almost always counter productive. I stressed early on in the first version of Presentation Zen four years ago—and ad…
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New York City gets a Software Engineering High School
13 Jan 2012 | 11:56 amThis fall New York City will open The Academy for Software Engineering, the city’s first public high school that will actually train kids to develop software. The project has been a long time dream of Mike Zamansky, the highly-regarded CS teacher at New York’s elite Stuyvesant public high school. It was jump started when Fred Wilson, a VC at Union Square Ventures, promised to get the tech community to help with knowledge, advice, and money. I’m on the board of advisors of the new school, which plans to accept ninth graders for fall of 2012. Here’s why I’m excited about this new… -
How Trello is different
6 Jan 2012 | 11:14 amJust a few months ago, we launched Trello, a super simple, web-based team coordination system. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and adoption has been very strong, even in its early, 1.0 state. Trello is new kind of development project for Fog Creek. It’s 100% hosted; there will never be an “installed software” version of Trello. That allowed us to modernize many aspects of our development process; I am happy to announce that there is absolutely no Visual Basic code involved in any part of Trello. What’s next, flying cars? The biggest difference you’ll notice (compared… -
Should you launch at a conference?
15 Sep 2011 | 8:28 pmShould you launch at Launch? (Or TechCrunch Disrupt? Or Demo? They’re all pretty similar). This year I launched two major new products at conferences: Careers 2.0 and Trello, and both times, it was totally worth it. First, a little background. There are three popular conferences where you can launch new products: Launch, TechCrunch Disrupt, and Demo. They all work the same way: You apply. If you have a half-decent product that is genuinely new, you’re likely to get a spot. That said, hundreds of companies apply for these conferences with unbearably awful products, so there’s always… -
Announcing Trello
13 Sep 2011 | 10:44 amAround the time of Fog Creek Software's ten year anniversary, I started thinking that if we want to keep our employees excited and motivated for another ten years, we were going to need some new things to work on. It occurred to me that we could easily afford to make four little two-person teams to launch four new products. That would give our developers more chances to move around from product to product when they got bored, which would make Fog Creek Software an even better place to work. Each team, we decided, would be guided by the spirit of lean startups. They would ship early and often. -
Stack Overflow DevDays is Back!
27 Jun 2011 | 12:51 pm[UPDATE - September 6th - Regrettably, DevDays had to be cancelled. See the announcement on the Stack Exchange Blog for details.] Stack Overflow DevDays, the universe's best conference series for coders, is back, and it's bigger than ever! Here's the idea behind DevDays. You're a developer. You'd love to learn all the latest hot new technologies. Things like DVCS, HTML 5, Node.js, CSS3, Hadoop, etc. The stuff the cool kids are all talking about on the playground while you're stuck in the basement somewhere grinding away on Java Enterprise Visual Basic. The idea behind DevDays is a fast,…
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Signal vs. Noise
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SaaS: Change starts easy and then gets really hard
7 Feb 2012 | 12:58 pmBasecamp just turned 8 years old. Here’s the launch announcement right here on this blog back on February 5, 2004. That’s a long time ago. We’ve learned a ton since then. One of the most interesting lessons has been the increasing degree to which time influences change. When we first launched Basecamp, we could iterate rapidly. We were incredibly prolific those first few months. We launched a bunch of new stuff and made rapid improvement every few weeks. Eventually it plateaued and slowed down. Why is that? Part of it is because many of the improvements we wanted to make… -
Lessons from Moneyball: don't get left behind
6 Feb 2012 | 7:32 amI recently read and watched “Moneyball”, and enjoyed both greatly. It’s a great story in and of itself, but I also found it to be an interesting parallel to the state of the “web software” industry today. Moneyball starts in the week before the 2002 baseball draft, with a set of meetings that pit Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane against his team of scouts. The scouts’ primary mechanism of evaluating players was visual – did the guy look, walk, and talk like a major league baseball player? On the other hand, Billy, with his assistant Paul… -
Customer support beyond email
3 Feb 2012 | 7:32 amWe’re seven members strong now and we’re able to add a lot of things our customers have been seeking. The bigger team also lets each of us work on support projects other than answering emails lightning fast. Since our sysops, developers and designers have been rightly bragging about the great things they’re doing, I thought I’d take the opportunity to tell you about what our amazing team has been doing to improve customer happiness. Basecamp 101 The mere whisper of the word ‘webinar’ used to make my blood run cold. The library and academic worlds (my old stomping grounds) are… -
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Developing for old browsers is (almost) a thing of the past
1 Feb 2012 | 7:11 amIt used to be one of the biggest pains of web development. Juggling different browser versions and wasting endless hours coming up with workarounds and hacks. Thankfully, those troubles are now largely optional for many developers of the web. Chrome ushered in a new era of the always updating browser and it’s been a monumental success. For Basecamp, just over 40% of our users are on Chrome and 97% of them are spread across three very recent versions: 16.0.912.75, 16.0.912.63, and 16.0.912.77. I doubt that many Chrome users even know what version they’re on — they just know…
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Three Magic Numbers
7 Feb 2012 | 5:51 amEvery company I’m involved in keeps track of numbers. Daily numbers, weekly numbers, monthly numbers. Ultimately, all the numbers translate into three financial statements – the P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement. While these numbers are sacrosanct in the accounting and finance professions, they are lagging indicators for most startup companies. Important, but they tell the story of the past, not what is going on right now. I’ve formed a view that every young company should be obsessed about three magic numbers. Not two, not five, but three. Before I explain… -
Grinfucking
4 Feb 2012 | 7:39 amI first heard the word “grinfucker” a decade or so ago from a close friend who was a former investment banker. He said, in response to a meeting we were in with a person who was very polite and charming “he’s such a grinfucker.” I loved the word and, as I found out later, it described the person perfectly. I had an encounter with someone on Friday that made me think to myself “that person is a grinfucker” and I vaguely remembered a post on the web from someone about grinfuckers. A quick Google search generated a post from Mark Suster titled… -
What Makes An Awesome Board Member?
2 Feb 2012 | 8:57 amOver the past two years I’ve been struggling mightily with the dynamics of “classical VC funded board of directors” and how these boards work. When I hear a VC say “I’m an active board member” it gives me the same nauseous feeling I get when someone says “I’m a value added investor.” I’ve been on some awesome boards, some terrible boards, and everything in between. Today, I refuse to be on a shitty or dysfunctional board and I’m proud that every board I’m on is one that I’d consider to be effective, although they… -
Starwood and AT&T #FAIL And Bless Me With $180.76 Of Phone Charges
1 Feb 2012 | 2:49 amPut this in the “every business traveller thinks this on a regular basis” rant category. Sure – I’m whining, but I imagine I’ll feel better after I get done. I doubt it has any impact on the universe, but hopefully it’ll be a story that rings true to some of you out there who travel as much as I do. And to my friends at Starwood and AT&T, you made my day yesterday, which was already intense, a lot harder than it needed to be. I just woke up, made some coffee, turned on my computer, and noticed that my hotel bill was shoved under my door. Last night… -
Reflections On CES From A Perspective Of The Future
31 Jan 2012 | 5:16 amI believe that science fiction is reality catching up to the future. Others say that science fact is the science fiction of the past. Regardless, the gap between science fact and science fiction is fascinating to me, especially as it applies to computers. My partners and I spend time at CES each year along with a bunch of the founders from different companies we’ve invested in due to our human computer interaction theme. In addition to a great way to start the year together, it gives us a chance to observe how the broad technology industry, especially on the consumer electronics side,…
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No-Cost Ways to Increase Your Sales This Year
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The Battle Against SOPA is Far From Over
8 Feb 2012 | 4:00 amEven though the anti-piracy bill has been sidelined, other proposed legislation still exist that pose equal threats to online businesses. -
Is Your Facebook Business Page Ready for 31,170 Visitors?
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When It Comes to Networking, Don't Try to Wing It
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Glassybaby Founder Lee Rhodes on Growth Mistakes (Video)
7 Feb 2012 | 8:05 amOur Entrepreneur of 2011 award winner shares the mistakes she made when growing her company -- and the lessons learned along the way.
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How I Find and Hire the World's Best Employees
8 Feb 2012 | 5:30 amIt's no secret that great people build great companies, so it's baffling that more companies don't treat recruiting as the most important job.A five-piece mariachi band, a cake with a hidden message, and more food than you'd believe, were all delivered to our office—resume in tow—in an attempt to help an applicant stand out from the other 2,000 monthly hopefuls who apply for a job here. People do crazy things like because they, with all their heart, want to work at Red Frog Events.It's no secret that great people build great companies, so it's baffling to me that more companies… -
The 9 Circles of Customer Service Hell
8 Feb 2012 | 5:00 amHow many are you putting your customers though?I'm sure you, like me, have spent too much time in customer service hell as a consumer. With apologies to Dante, it’s at least nine circles:The never-ending voice mail phone treeThe requirement to repeat your name, account number, etc., ad infinitumHold, hold, holdThe ominous sound, mid-conversation, of the dial toneThe disappearing clerkThe line that's always 20-people deepThe agent who doesn’t understand your questionThe “I’m sorry, but I don’t have the authority to do that” responseThe clerk who's busy… -
The 9 Most Common Start-up Mistakes
8 Feb 2012 | 4:30 amMistakes are a great way to learn. But why not skip the pain and suffering yourself -- at least on these 9 mistakes.Making mistakes is a great way to learn. Making mistakes is also not particularly fun.It's a lot more fun to avoid them entirely.Here are some of the most common mistakes entrepreneurs—and businesspeople in general—tend to make:1. Think of a plan as an end result. Say you’re agonizing over a business plan; somewhere along the way you've forgotten your goal is to actually start the business. Establish goals, create long-range plans, make to-do lists, and get… -
How I Built a Lifestyle Business I Love
8 Feb 2012 | 4:00 amMost people wish they could say they do what they love. Here's how one business owner actually made it happen.Like most platitudes, “do what you love” rings a little hollow… but not for everyone.Take Lauren Hefferon. She loves bicycles: from an early age she loved the outdoors, loved to ride, and loved cycling on an athletic and a personal level.“Starting when I was a kid,” she says, “I knew I didn’t just want to have time to ride. I wanted cycling to be at the center of whatever I did in my life.” Today Lauren owns Ciclismo Classico, an… -
What It Takes to Hire Top Ivy League Talent
8 Feb 2012 | 3:41 amWant to hire top-tier young talent for your lower-profile business? Don't think you can just show up on campus senior year and compete, warns one small company.Everyone knows the competition for top-tier tech and business talent is intense, with some companies going to extraordinary lengths to bring the brightest minds to their organizations. So if you're not as well known as marquee brands like Facebook and Google, do even have a hope of attracting the best Ivy League-caliber grads to your firm?Yes, answers one small, relatively unknown firm that's managed this feat. But there's one hitch:…
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The Curious Vaporization Of Jesta Labs, A $15 Million Startup Incubator
8 Feb 2012 | 6:45 amHere’s a puzzler. Back in September 2011, less than 6 months ago, Jesta Digital loudly committed $15 million to establish Jesta Labs, a New York-based mobile services startup incubator. Fast forward to today, and the incubator has vanished from the face of the planet. Their website has been taken down, and we hear pretty much everyone who had anything to do with Jesta Labs has moved on. For the record, I’m not the only one who caught on to the incubator’s curious disappearance – see Ben Yoskovitz’s report (Next Montreal). Here’s the full story from what… -
Akamai Acquires Website Performance Company Blaze Software
8 Feb 2012 | 6:12 amAfter scooping up rival Cotendo for $268 million recently, content delivery and web services giant Akamai is making another acquisition today—Blaze Software. Blaze’s technology helps accelerate speed of Websites, and optimizes load times while cutting bandwidth costs. Financial details of the dealn were not disclosed except that it was an all-cash transaction. As Akamai explains, there are more performance bottlenecks for website load and speed times, as richer web applications and mobile web sites become more popular. Blaze’s cloud-based service automatically optimizes the code… -
Boxee Stands With The CEA Against Cable Companies, Courts The FCC Chairman To Stop Proposed Ruling
8 Feb 2012 | 6:02 amAnti-consumer legislation SOPA and PIPA might be all but dead, but there isn’t time to rest. There is a seemingly never-ending flow of proposed legislation, statutes and bills queued up, ready to bust down doors and storm living rooms. One of the latest involves the forced transition from analog to digital cable — something I wrote about back in 2008. If the FCC caves to massive lobbying from the cable companies, the days of unencrypted cable stations in the US will be numbered. Cable subscribers would be required to have a cable box (which will likely cost money) or… -
Yep, People Research Movies On Their Phones — Especially On Apps
8 Feb 2012 | 6:01 amAdding to the stream of reports about how people do more and more on their mobile devices, mobile ad network Greystripe just released the results of a survey about the movie research process. The network says it recruited participants through, yes, a mobile ad in its network, ultimately surveying 248 smartphone users (including iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android) and 298 iPad users in November of 2011. It found that those smartphone and iPad owners are indeed movie goers, with 39 percent of smartphone respondents and 41 percent of iPad respondents watching movies more than four times a year. -
Crunchie-Winner Fotopedia Launches New App With World Bank
8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 amJust a week after winning Best Tablet Application at the Crunchies, Fotopedia is launching its latest iPad and iPhone app. The app lives up to its title Women of the World, showcasing photos of women in more than 75 countries. It was developed in partnership with the World Bank. All of Fotopedia’s apps employ a similar design, creating a beautiful, color-rich interface for browsing high-quality photos from around the world. This isn’t the first time Fotopedia has partnered with an international organization — its first app, Heritage, was developed with UNESCO and displays photos…
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DealBook: Yahoo Shakes Up Board
8 Feb 2012 | 5:40 amFour long-serving directors will leave, and two new members have been named, following the resignation of the co-founder Jerry Yang. -
For Multitaskers, Multiple Monitors Improve Office Efficiency
8 Feb 2012 | 5:26 amIn a new tactic for countering the data assault, offices are giving workers a second computer screen and sometimes a third. -
Sprint Posts Net Loss but Revenue Gain on iPhone
8 Feb 2012 | 5:25 amThe nation’s No. 3 cellphone carrier reported a fourth-quarter loss of $1.3 billion, or 43 cents a share, on revenue that climbed 5 percent to $8.7 billion. -
Nokia to Cut 4,000 Jobs at 3 Factories
8 Feb 2012 | 5:25 amThe reductions are the second wave of job cuts at Nokia under Steven Elop, a former Microsoft executive. -
Gadgetwise Blog: Tip of the Week: Customizing Folder Previews
8 Feb 2012 | 3:05 amIf you would prefer to give your desktop folders a more distinctive look so you can find certain ones more easily, you can choose a specific picture to peep out of each folder instead.
