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July 22, 2015
Mythmakers have no place for modesty and nuance. They like firebrands. Mavericks. Lone wolves. It’s why Thomas Edison, who claimed to have invented practically everything, is a towering…
Read articleJuly 21, 2015
In my previous TechCrunch article you learned that I’m a big fan of the millennial generation. A really big fan. So much so, and as a result of…
Read articleJuly 19, 2015
My life changed when I got a job at a startup. I was 19 years old and had just finished my first year at the University of Michigan.…
Read articleJuly 18, 2015
It’s been over a year since we wrote our original post sharing our analysis of the last decade’s most successful U.S.-based, venture-backed tech companies. In that piece we…
Read articleJuly 18, 2015
“There are three types of people,” astronaut Chris Hadfield told me. “-1, 0, and +1.” When a business fails it feels like a -1. When a relationship fails,…
Read articleJuly 17, 2015
For most of us, and certainly for most of your team, meetings are the least productive part of our day. Yet too many brilliant people are stuck in…
Read articleJuly 14, 2015
Today, the technology industry is caught in a landslide of hype about “unicorns” — the term adopted by many to describe the rare class of startup that soars…
Read articleJuly 13, 2015
Only the most committed Luddites truly mourned the demise of the feature phone. Compare Nokia’s classic 3210 with the latest iPhone and you’d have to be metabolizing a…
Read articleJuly 13, 2015
June was an exciting month for Spark. At Hadoop Summit San Jose, it was a frequent topic of conversation, as well as the subject of many session presentations.…
Read articleJuly 12, 2015
It’s no secret that most startups fail. What’s a bit less obvious is that most startup accelerators also fail. While a few top-tier programs get the cream of…
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