Why You’re A Startup Founder: Nature And Nurture

Why You’re A Startup Founder: Nature And Nurture

This article has been syndicated from TechCrunch. By Pokin Yeung (Founder, Askomatics) Just over a month ago, a random conversation with another startup founder over lunch turned into a full-blown research project. “You and I are both first-born children,” I mused to...
The Women Of Y Combinator – And They Are Awesome

The Women Of Y Combinator – And They Are Awesome

This article has been syndicated from TechCrunch. By Kim-Mai Cutler (Writer, TechCrunch) I would normally rather have a root canal instead of write about the issue of women in technology. I just find most essays on this really tedious and obvious. (Sorry Alexia.) But...
Creating New Generation Of Hackers With CoderDojo, GitHub

Creating New Generation Of Hackers With CoderDojo, GitHub

By Susan Hobbs (Conference Program Chair, TechCrunch) On Saturday afternoon a group of 30 pint size wannabe hackers gathered at the GitHub offices in San Francisco for the first CoderDojo in the United States. Irish teen sensation, James Whelton had traveled to San...
Friday Roundup: For The Love Or The Money?

Friday Roundup: For The Love Or The Money?

By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, we learned that social networking site Pinterest reached record-breaking pageviews in an ungodly amount of time. Almost simultaneously, we heard that Pinterest has been generating revenue –...