On 19 April, over 650 tech entrepreneurs and students attended the fourth annual free Startup School, held at Stanford University in California. The event, organised by seed venture fund YCombinator, has become a fixture in the West Coast US tech entrepreneur’s calendar. This year’s world-class speakers included Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Marc Andreessen (Netscape/Ning), Greg McAdoo…
If you’ve ever seen the movie American Psycho (based on Brett Easton Ellis’s extremely dark novel), you will surely remember the “business card” scene in which Manhattan investment banker and surreptitious serial killer Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) engages in a business-card-off with colleagues. (Scene embedded below.) While Bateman’s taste was decidedly minimalist, many people go…
There are few things more embarrassing than a public dummy-spit. We all have our moments of weakness, when our blood-sugar levels get low, when the traffic has been rotten, when the kids are acting up, when your boss just doesn’t ‘get it’, when your new employee just won’t follow through, when it all suddenly seems…
There are few things more embarrassing than a public dummy-spit. We all have our moments of weakness, when our blood-sugar levels get low, when the traffic has been rotten, when the kids are acting up, when your boss just doesn’t ‘get it’, when your new employee just won’t follow through, when it all suddenly seems…
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