At the heart of every entrepreneurial endeavor are three words: “What if we…” (more…)

Skillshare founder Mike Karnjanaprakorn recently wrote a post titled, “Three Big Decisions Your Startup Will Make.” In his estimation, “what to build” is the first decision that has the capacity to fundamentally break your startup. He’s right, and that means it’s worth some serious mental cycles to figure out what type of company is going to be most fulfilling and…

History teaches us that social movements happen when people from different groups cease to see each other as fundamentally different and instead begin to include each other in their sense of shared experience and culture. As the Internet matures, it is developing its own shared culture, open to anyone, distinct from the analog world, and increasingly important…

There are currently 30 million African migrants who have left their home countries to find work elsewhere. They support more than 300 million people in their home countries, remitting essential food and goods, and in aggregate represent more than $10b in annual economic activity. This is an economy without an infrastructure, however, relying on informal channels and bribes to function....

In a blog post Tuesday, 3-year old venture firm Andreessen Horowitz announced its third fund, a $1.5 billion monster that brings the firm’s total capital under management to $2.7 billion. The news not only cements the firm’s place among the upper echelons of the Silicon Valley VC elite, but is one of the strongest indications yet of an ongoing…

You’re an aspiring entrepreneur. You’ve been working on your idea for a few months and released your first product which, however gnarly, is proving that you’re not crazy and there may be a there there. Now that the core of your team is established, your early product is humming along, and that all important validating user response is coming in,...

In the pantheon of “Apple” days, it is entirely possible that when we look back a decade from now, last week’s education-focused announcements will stand next to the first iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad as a day that the entire future of an industry was reoriented. Whether they’re successful or not, Apple has given the education technology space…

This morning, the lights went out on the internet. Around the web, sites from Google to Reddit to Wikipedia are turning off core services to dramatize and protest legislation working its way through the Senate and House that would give the government heretofore unheard of authority to deny access to and censor the internet in the name…