Posted by Pat May on February 27th, 2009 at 11:07 am | Categorized as Silicon Beat | Tagged as entrepreneur, Jobs, Layoffs, San Jose, Silicon Valley, startups
Anu Basu, a professor of entrepreneurship at San Jose State University, spotted our Pink Slip 2.0 project and wondered whether it might dove-tail with her own academic interest - the relationship between job loss and entrepreneurship. “In other words,” she told me, “under what circumstances does job loss push someone into entrepreneurship?” Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by admin on February 19th, 2009 at 1:07 pm | Categorized as venture capital | Tagged as Care.com, Quantcast.com, Reply.com, SlideShare, startups, venture capital, YouNoodle
In this age of disintermediation, when middle men of all kinds are rendered increasingly irrelevant by online technology, it seems only fair that the same force takes aim at the people who helped finance the Internet’s spread: venture capitalists.
YouNoodle, the San Francisco startup that last year launched an online crystal ball of sorts that uses Read the rest of this entry »
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