Archive for April 2nd, 2012

Those who are Apple fans, or simply follow the tech industry, need no introduction when it comes to John Sculley, Apple’s former CEO who decided to come on-board as CEO and help the late Steve Jobs “change the world” instead of selling “sugar water” for the rest of his life while at PepsiCo.
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After eight technology startups, several books and a decade of teaching, some would say that Steve Blank has turned the art of creating a tech company into a science. Still, he never thought his skills would be desired by actual scientists.
That changed last summer when the 58-year-old received a call while driving to teach a class at Stanford University. It was from a member of the National Science Foundation, who had been following his blog and reading the course materials from his Lean LaunchPad class for aspiring entrepreneurs.Read more HERE
Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Nokia Oyj (NOK1V)’s proposals for smaller SIM cards face a second round of debate after talks stalled following the Finnish mobile-phone company’s threat to withhold its patents.
A two-day meeting in Sophia Antipolis, France, to adopt a standard from competing proposals by Apple and Nokia finished today without reaching a decision, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute said in an e-mailed statement.Read more HERE
Internet startups are notorious for calling themselves the (insert hot company here) for (insert sector of your startup here).
For example: the Facebook for students, the Groupon for travel, or the Twitter for businesses. Read more HERE
The investors assembled at Y Combinator’s Demo Day in Mountain View are no strangers to the challenges of finding top engineering talent in Silicon Valley. So the crowd was especially attuned to pitches from HireArt and Coderwall, which are working to make it easier for startups to staff up well.Read more HERE
Facebook Inc. (FB)’s implied valued rose 8.9 percent to $102.8 billion yesterday in what was expected to be the last auction of its stock on SharesPost Inc.’s exchange before the social-networking company’s initial public offering.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Twitter took its popular TweetDeck client offline Friday afternoon after a user announced that an apparent glitch allowed him to post from other users’ accounts.
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