What Startups Can Learn From LearnVest’s $250 Million Acquisition

Editor’s note: Joe Polverari is chief strategy and development officer of  Yodlee . When LearnVest , one of the hottest startups in f...

Should You Build Or Acquire?

Editor’s note:  Austin McChord is the founder of Datto , a backup and disaster recovery and business continuity company based in Norwalk,...

The Ultimate Interface Is Your Brain

Editor’s note:   Ramez Naam is the author of five books, including the  Nexus trilogy of sci-fi novels. The final frontier of the digita...

A Secular Shift To Online Food Ordering

Editor’s note: Eric Kim is co-founder and CEO of RushOrder , an L.A.-based mobile food ordering startup.  To say that recent capital inf...

Building A Moat In A Bubble: Navigating Today’s Financing Environment

Editor’s note:  Pravin Vazirani is a Managing Director at Menlo Ventures and focuses on investments in the cloud, SaaS, and E-commerce se...

The Business Economics And Opportunity Of Open-Source Data Science

Editor’s note: David Smith leads the open source solutions group at Revolution Analytics (a subsidiary of Microsoft). He writes daily ab...

Xiaomi On Its 5th Birthday

Editor’s note:   Hans Tung is a Managing Partner at   GGV Capital   and an early investor in   Xiaomi   Technology. GGV Capital recently ...

The Upcoming Shakeout In Travel Tech

Editor’s note: Warren Lee is a general partner at Canaan Partners where he invests in travel , enterprise software, and marketplace star...

10 Rules Successful Startups Should Follow

Editor’s note: Carol Broadbent and Tom Hogan are the founders and principals of Crowded Ocean , a Silicon Valley marketing agency that ha...

The Big Reverse Of The Web

Editor’s note:   Dries Buytaert is the co-founder and CTO of Acquia and the inventor of Drupal. Here is one idea that arrived before it...

Rise Of The Quants — Again

Editor’s note:  Robin Vasan is a managing director of Mayfield , a global early-stage venture capital firm. He previously founded or work...

Death To C

Ladies and gentlemen, the C programming language . It’s a classic. It is sleek, and spartan, and elegant. (Especially compared to its seque...