From Brad Feld comes a recommendation for a new book, “My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley,” which as we’ve been seeing speaks to an accelerating theme of younger and younger kids starting companies. Why? Because they can. This nineteen year-old kid, Ben Casnocha, was fourteen [...]
It seems there are more and more of these teenagers authoring hits, starting companies or otherwise taking matters into their own hands when they find things that don’t work for them. But this one is the best of all; a kid who took his frustration with chemistry class and turned it into a game that [...]
If you’re a political fanboy like me, it’s a helluva lot easier to obsess over the strategems of beltway game than search for evidence of actual leadership in candidates. This is particularly true at this stage in the election cycle when our electoral system focuses the national debate more on the reactions of corn [...]
I knew Flora when she was an unemployed dot com dropout.
Back in 2001 she was really struggling. Couldn’t figure out what she wanted to do next, whether it was another tech job or something she hadn’t thought of. You could tell she was something special, that the wheels were spinning in her head. But it [...]