Pioneering incubator TechStars rolls out its “microinternship” program in Boulder, CO. VentureWire spoke with TechStars’ David Cohen about his own formative experiences and early exposure to business and tech, why kids need role models beyond Beiber, and what TechStars CEOs get out of their time with tweens.
Category: Management
7 Things Highly Productive People Do LinkedIn
Ilya Pozin Ilya Pozin recently sat down with Tony Wong, a project management blackbelt and came up with these 7 Things Highly Productive People Do. Here are his tips for staying productive: Work backwards from goals to milestones to tasks. Stop multi-tasking. Be militant about eliminating distractions. Schedule your email. Use the phone. Work on…
Cloud Sprawl. How to deal with it.
Mike Vizard, talks with Kent Christensen of Datalink about Cloud Sprawl and what companies can do about it. Christensen’s recommendation is to start with a private cloud. One of the issues that many IT organizations are soon going to find themselves dealing with is “cloud sprawl.” Because it’s relatively easy to set up an account…
Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics
A straight forward view of analyzing data and making your findings visual. They didn’t mention the part about choosing only the statistics which support your position. Or the section on how to make the data look better or worse. Perhaps it would be a good idea for folks to stop doing that. Visualize This: The…
Mark Kvamme to Help Knock the Rust off Ohio
It was 1996 and the head of CKS Group was impressed enough with a young, brash guy from Los Angeles to give him a bit of Angel Funding. Eric Greenberg took that money, grabbed a few folks to get going, and put together a plan that attracted capital from Bill Davidow, Vinod Khosla, and Venetia…
Comcast and Level 3 Square Off Over Netflix and Regulation
Level 3 has decided to take it’s negotiations with Comcast to the masses and the federal government. The issue is about the cost of delivering content across each other’s networks, or is it? Comcast claims it is a Peering Issue and the Netflix agreement has caused Level 3 to outgrow the settle-free arrangement the two…