It's Google's presidency. We're just watching it. Six Google executives, including CEO Eric Schmidt and cofounder Larry Page, have donated $25,000 apiece to fund President Barack Obama's swearing-in party. Taken as a whole, the Googlers' cash is one of the largest corporate donations to Obama's inau...

last year, i was honored to be asked by brad and david to be a mentor for the the first techstars "class." rick, dick, and i are all involved this year and plan on being in boulder a bit this summer. should be great... if you're interested in getting involved (i.,e applying), do it now...the apps ar...

[Updated with new details about deal, including who worked on it and info on a cash component.] About three weeks ago, Facebook and Twitter ended several weeks of serious talks, in which Facebook was offering to acquire Twitter for $500 million of its stock, which also included a cash component. Whi...

Book tours? So old media — or rather, not profitable enough for book publishers to conduct except for celebrity writers. Sarah Lacy, the author of Web 2.0 nonfiction chronicle Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good, plans to defy that wisdom and go on a 10-city tour herself. She's already includ...

On Thursday May 29, 2008 in Chicago we had an action packed day of TECH cocktail activities which included our first ever full day conference, TECH cocktail CONFERENCE, followed by our 8th Chicago mixer, TECH cocktail Chicago 8. It was a lot of fun as we were able to further our mission of better co...

FeedBurner founder and current Googler Dick Costolo used to be a stand-up comedian. Somebody isn't laughing....

newVideoPlayer("Feedburner_at_Google.flv", 475, 376); Dick Costolo used to be CEO of FeedBurner, a Chicago startup which publishes RSS feeds for websites. But then FeedBurner got acquired by Google. Now Costolo's got a "significant title" at Google, though, as he explains in this you video, "you can...

Quella di Costolo, che ha alle spalle l’acquisizione da parte di Google di Feedburner, è una delle sessioni più ricche dell’ultima giornata. Si chiude in bellezza. Ecco qualche appunto tratto dalla sua vulcanica (e concentrata!) presentazione. Nel fondare una azienda, meglio che tutti ...