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Sponsored stories will begin appearing in the Timeline. That was the intent behind removing the straight chronological river (newsfeed), to be able to place ads into your stream in…

I think the point is there is a romantic ideal of building product first, just make it cool, no ads, don't focus on revenue. If you need cash, raise a venture round. But that actua…

This list doesn't seem to be about sexiest at all. Just which companies are furthest along and might raise big rounds. Confused.

The story conflates the problems with walking dead VCs, many of which were formed during the dot-com bubble, with what is going on in the early stage startup world. There are more …

What is wrong with NYU or Columbia? Can they not attract top CS talent?

Actually, the point of the piece is he didn't violate policy, Fareed Zakaria changed the rules. But he did lie to the guy from Ignighter. Later, he apologized.

Can't you just find your own section of a co-working space and kind of make it the office? This advice doesn't help most startups, who haven't raised big funding.

I believe under the new law you would need to show you employed your invention as part of a business prior to their filing in order to have a case for prior art.

So there was no discussion with the startups at GA about the funding?

I heard from a few friends at google that there are pretty intense discussions going on right now about what they can demand from their partners. They had to bend over backwards fo…

The debate is very old. But the explosion of news coverage around the word hacker has happened in the last three years.

Wait, does Frommer have actual tech skills to build an app? Or this mysterious cooking project...

Exactly. The price is well above expert estimates. While these tech giants can afford that extra cost, the same tension is playing out for smaller startups that cannot.