Archive for October 28th, 2010
Startup School Inspires Budding Entrepreneurs
The annual Startup School, put on by the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students and Y-Combinator, featured founders and investors in Dinkelspiel Auditorium. More than 800 prospective entrepreneurs attended reports The Stanford Daily. The day’s list of speakers included Silicon Valley heavyweights such as Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, Reid Hoffman ‘89, founder [...]
Journey From Prostitute To Entrepreneur, Author
The first thing that Cathrine Ann admits is that, “I’m totally phony.” From hair extensions to plastic surgery, there isn’t much left that you could call authentic. The one thing that is not fake? Her new book, Beautiful Buttons: A Memoir of Survival and Triumph. She has no real secrets there reports The Globe and [...]
Work from Anywhere: Handy Portable Offices
IKEA PS Laptop Workstation Louis Vuitton Suitcase Armoire Box Office Cart Desk Via: Mashable Photos by Ikea/Reghardware/Bornrich/Comforthouse.
Students Flock To Entrepreneurship Courses
Fairfield County might soon become the new home of the entrepreneur reports ctpost.com. In response to interest from their students, Fairfield University’s Charles F. Dolan School of Business has launched a new concentration in entrepreneurship. “When we’d make presentations to students on management, we would get inquiries into whether we had courses on entrepreneurialism,” said [...]
“I’ll have a Big Mac, French fries, Coke and a wedding for 50, please.” Yes, fast-food giant McDonald’s is getting into the weddings business – initially, only at three restaurants in Hong Kong – with “McWeddings,” Reuters recently reported. Sure, McDonald’s move doesn’t have immediate implications for hotels; initially, McWeddings will most likely lure couples [...]
If you’re looking for a way to stop your kids from losing their straws, one mom-owned company has “the strawlution”. Unlike most straws that will slip out just as easily as they slip in, Straw-lution straws are made to stay where you put them. They have little hooks, much like a fishing hook but not [...]
10,000 Websites Integrate With Facebook Every Day
Mashable reports that Facebook Chief Operations Officer Sheryl Sandberg made a “surprise” appearance at Pal’s Innovate Developer Conference to announce its new integration with PayPal. During her short speech, she dropped a few interesting tidbits of information related to Facebook’s growth. The first interesting stat surrounded social games. According to Sandberg, more people play games [...]
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