Maker culture started out as a DIY movement… By Renee DiResta (Associate, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures) Paul Graham wrote an interesting post today about the emergence of hardware companies in the Silicon Valley startup scene. It’s great to see an...
“Start with a high-level problem space that you’re passionate about, then narrow it down from there.” By Jessica Mah (Co-Founder & CEO, InDinero) Our friends at GiftRocket put together a very cool infographic on Paul Graham’s “Startup...
By Kapil Kale (Co-Founder, GiftRocket) I first came across Paul Graham’s article, Startup Ideas We’d Like To Fund, in a Google search in mid-2010. Though published two years earlier, I thought the article was the most thorough compilation of problem spaces for...
By Eric Ries (Contributing Writer, TechCrunch) Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you can’t have missed the recent dust-up over race and Silicon Valley. Like almost every discussion of diversity and meritocracy in this town, it turned ugly fast. One side says:...
By Swathy Prithivi (Head of Corporate Development, Sonim Technologies) In “Who Will Be the Next Steve Jobs?” in the Wall Street Journal, Vinod Khosla, entrepreneur and venture capitalist extraordinaire, lists two key characteristics of “would-be...