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Start-Up 100: Why aren’t we teaching our kids how to code?
Guest columnist Joshua March is troubled by the lack of programming skills among young public

Start-Up 100: Why I ditched the US for Europe
Guest columnist Gabriel Ortiz responds to Loic Le Meur, drawing attention to Europe’s unique repayment – and problems

LawPivot Closes guardian angel Round For Quora-Like Startup Legal Advice
One thing’s for sure, there’s probably going to be a Quora for each possible niche eventually. The Q&A site meets social network thought is just a fantastic way to spur the creation of excellent quality content. A Quora for the enterprise, Opzi, did well at TechCrunch Disrupt: San Francisco this year, for example. And there are additional examples as well. We’ll see more soon. Starting now. LawPivot is a …

How much is that startup in the window
For many entrepreneurs, figuring out how much their high impact startup is worth that is, how much ownership do they have to offer for the amount of money they want to raise is one of the more obscure nooks of the startup/venture capital world. Nearly by definition, high impact startups are so risky in terms of team/execution, technology, market factors, timing, etc. that conventional…

Programming with Reason: The Startup
Isn’t this what’s in the back of each programmers mind?

Monday startup: Adioso
Adioso came into existence through a combination of persistence, willingness to abandon terrible thoughts, and naivete.

Google Buys Innovative Startup Angstro to Help Build GoogleMe
Angstro , an experimental social-graph and news-crunching startup, has been bought by Google to help lead the company’s charge against Facebook in social networking. The acquisition was first reported on by Jessica Guynn of the LA Times . Here’s how Angstro describes itself on its website : “Inspired by the angstrom unit of rate (0.1 nanometre) named after Swedish physicist Anders Jonas …

Dressing For the Startup Interview: In Defense of the Suit
If there’s a workplace environment that’s as casual as the tech world, it’s Hollywood. And in that informal setting, Paul Feig is an anachronism. Each day, the director of TV shows like Freaks and Geeks and The Office wears a suit and tie to work. Last week Place This On (“a Web series about dressing like a grownup”) interviewed Feig, and his answer to the question “Why a suit?” is applicable to …

Eric Ries (Lessons Learned), “The Lean Startup: Innovation Through Experimentation. Not Just for Startups Anymore.”

AppNexus CEO Brian O’Kelley charmingly and candidly describes his entrepreneurial exploits in this talk titled “Three Failures and a (Huge) Success: The Evolution of a Startup CEO.” From O’Kelley’s AppNexus bio: “Brian O’Kelley is best known for making the first successful online ad exchange as CTO of Right Media (bought by Yahoo for $850MM in July 2007). Brian’s entrepreneurial career started in high school selling computers out of a supporter’s garage. At Princeton, he started a web design firm, building an open-source e-commerce engine used by more than 100 companies. After graduating in 1999, Brian was CEO of Netamorphosis, an ahead of schedule social networking and e-commerce site for events and venues, and spent time at LogicSpan, Cetova, Poindexter Systems before joining Right Media in 2003.