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Attn Entrepreneurs: Mark Zuckerberg Isn’t the Role Model. Reid Hoffman Is.
Forty-plus weeks traveling the emerging world has taught me many things. Chief among them is that most entrepreneurs outside Silicon Valley learn the wrong lessons looking in. A lot of that is the fault of publications like TechCrunch: We get excited about new things.
They have put together a yet-to-be-matched team of engineers, and I enjoy using their search and Google Apps every day. Even our product, Teambox, is tightly integrated with Google Docs and their offerings.
Why Google’s hiring process is broken | Teambox Blog
Eric Stromberg — How to get a job at a startup if you aren’t a developer
Recently, I’ve received an increasing number of emails from “business people” looking for advice on how to get a job at a startup. Most have the same story, “I could go work at a big company, but want to join a startup.
Peter Thiel: We’re in a Bubble and It’s Not the Internet. It’s Higher Education.
Fair warning: This article will piss off a lot of you.One hundred students, hailing from 26 different universities, arrived on the Farm on Thursday to attend a four-day entrepreneurship conference called E-Bootcamp , which was organized through a partnership between student business associations at Stanford and Princeton. Throughout the conference, students attended talks from influential Silicon Valley power players like Google vice president Marissa Mayer ’97 M.S. ’99, TiVo co-founder Jim Barton and Elad Gil, director of corporate strategy for Twitter.
BASES hosts entrepreneurship conference for start-ups | Stanford Daily
Surfin’ ain’t easy, and right now, you’re lost at sea. But don’t worry; simply pick an option from the list below, and you’ll be back out riding the waves of the Internet in no time.
A Job Board of the best jobs in the technology industry | NextDigest
College Grads Looking for Work at a NYC Startup? Try the NYC Startup Job Fair
It's that time of year again, when college seniors start thinking about the next phase of their lives. In other words, that means it's time to start looking for a job, polishing up the resume, and hitting the campus career fairs. As we've discussed here before in relations to internship programs, many campus events and recruitment efforts still cater primarily to large, established companies.
Why I decided to work at a startup after graduating | VentureBeat
Two years ago, as a Harvard senior studying economics and math, I was faced with the inevitable decision — what to do after graduating. I was fortunate to have great options, including offers of direct admission to business school at Harvard and Stanford.
(Editor’s note: Doug Collom is vice dean and an adjunct lecturer on venture capital and entrepreneurship for Wharton|San Francisco . He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
3 tips every entrepreneur should know | VentureBeat
When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or cofounder of a startup I ask them to take a walk around the block and ask themselves: