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Mike McCue

Longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur Mike McCue founded Flipboard in early 2010, with former Apple iPhone engineer Evan Doll. http://www.crunchbase.com/person/mike-mccue
http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/27/founder-stories-leto-bnter-texts-from-last-nigh/

(Founder Stories) Lauren Leto: Texts From Last Night Was A Million Dollar Idea, Bnter Is Next

As a law student, Lauren Leto and her friends started Texts From Last Night , a site where they could anonymously posts real text messages about their exploits going out at night. It turns out a lot of people could relate, and when they opened up the site to anyone to contribute, it became a Web sensation. Today, the site attracts 4 million people a month, 5,000 to 15,000 submissions a day, and the 99-cent iPhone app has been downloaded a million times.
Before all the buzz and acquisition offers , Foursquare was just an idea in Dennis Crowley’s head. He recently sat down with Chris Dixon to tape an episode of Founder Stories . http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/02/founder-stories-crowley-foursquare-origins/

(Founder Stories) Dennis Crowley On The Origins Of Foursquare

We’re on the verge of hearing how Microsoft performed in the last quarter of 2010 – the general consensus seems to be that the world’s largest software maker is set to report a dip in earnings. We’ll be covering the quarterly earnings release, which is scheduled for after the market closes, and we’ll be zooming in on Microsoft’s online businesses in particular. But before we do, I wanted to address something else. http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/27/why-microsoft-desperately-needs-to-become-more-acquisitive/

Why Microsoft Desperately Needs To Become More Acquisitive

by Ron Ashkenas | 2:05 PM January 25, 2011 When Google announced that co-founder Larry Page was replacing Eric Schmidt as CEO, the official reason was to "streamline decision making" at the top. http://blogs.hbr.org/ashkenas/2011/01/can-a-big-company-innovate-lik.html

Can a Big Company Innovate Like a Start-Up? - Ron Ashkenas

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/01/the_next_big_thing_in_managing.html

The Next Big Thing in Managing Innovation - Henry Chesbrough - The Conversation

by Henry Chesbrough | 11:33 AM January 18, 2011 The first decade of the 21st century brought about an incredible amount of technological advances — Facebook, Twitter, Android, iPod/iTunes/iPhone/iPad, and many other innovations transformed how we communicate, work, and live. But it is often the processes that helped create and manage these technologies that prove most enduring.