Following the exodus of Facebook LGBTQ members to Ello, Facebook's head of product published a post admitting to the company's mistakes and promising to rectify them.…
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Is the cloud unstable and what can we do about it?
The recent major reboots of cloud-based infrastructure by Amazon and Rackspace has resurfaced the question about cloud instability. Days before the reboot,…
Read More849 million reasons why Bebo was a mistake for AOL
Bebo co-founder and mega-millionaire Michael Birch today re-acquired the brand and the network for a million dollars. Like dance clubs, these faded (and forgotten) social network marquees are a rude reminder that social web is about people and people - especially young people are fickle.…
Read MoreTiger Woods, doublethink and failed startups
It's become a piece of widely-accepted startup lore to say that failure is an important part of success. But this trio of examples highlight the fact that entrepreneurs have as much in common with Tiger Woods as they do with each other.…
Read MoreSolar maker Evergreen Solar files for bankruptcy
It's not a startup, but it's the latest member of the cleantech graveyard. On Monday, Evergreen Solar filed for Chapter 11 and announced it will be selling its assets, laying off 65 people and suspending operation of its Midland, Mich. filament factory.…
Read MoreWhat happens if your web series doesn’t hit it big?
For Solo creator Jonathan Nail, producing his own web series was an opportunity to create a showcase for his acting. But after two years of hard work and thousands of dollars, he found that the rewards of independent production are not universal.…
Read MoreHow to Ensure Business Continuity in the Cloud
After years of hype, the IT industry finally had a rude awakening this spring that reminded us that cloud computing infrastructures are vulnerable to the same genetic IT flaw that plagues traditional data center operations: Everything fails sooner or later. Here's how to build around that.…
Read MoreHey Apple, Sony and Amazon: Crisis Response is Real Time Now Too
The reasons for the recent screwups by Apple, Sony and Amazon were different, but their reaction was remarkably similar: a conspicuous lack of timely response. Like many others, these tech giants don't seem to have realized that crisis response has to become real-time now too.…
Read MoreLessons in Failure: The Startup Post-Mortem
If you're looking for tips on what not to do with your startup, reading about the failure of someone else's company can be a good place to start. Today, it was entrepreneur Ben Yoskovitz's turn to write about the recent failure of his startup, Standout Jobs.…
Read MoreThe Moving To-Do List
At the end of the day, we look at our to-do list list, but there’s one item that didn’t get completed, so we move it to tomorrow’s list, but tomorrow, the same thing happens, and it keeps happening. I call these items a “moving to-do list"…
Read MoreAnatomy of a Failure: Lessons From the Death of NewsTilt
NewsTilt, a media startup that launched in April, shut down just two months later. Co-founder Paul Biggar has written an analysis of why it collapsed so quickly, and his post contains some useful lessons -- not just for media-related startups, but for startups of all kinds.…
Read MoreShouldn't We Be Celebrating Google's Failures?
Plenty of observers have been happily gloating about the failure of Google Wave, the real-time collaboration tool that the company has said it is shutting down due to lack of interest. But shouldn't we be celebrating the fact that Google is willing to try new things?…
Read MoreThe Pivotal Point: Not Giving Up Too Soon
You've come up with your big idea, and now comes the hard part: Getting the word out about your business and, more importantly, hanging in there while you get the word out about your business. The hard part now becomes not giving up too soon.…
Read MoreApple Admits MacBook Hard Drives Defective, Offers Free Repair Program
In a move reminiscent of the warranty extension Apple (s aapl) offered to MacBook Pro owners affected by NVIDIA-gate, the Mac maker…
Read MoreIn Business, It's All an Experiment
When you're trying to run your own business, you need time to experiment and try new methods and approaches to your systems and your work, but you also need time to reflect on what's working so that you can modify your direction as you go.…
Read MoreApple Ranks a Lackluster Fourth in Notebook Reliability Study
Apple (s aapl) is fairly reliable, but not the most reliable company of all when it comes to notebooks, according to a…
Read MorePlanning What's Realistic (and Doable)
Yesterday, I sat down with pen and paper and tried to make a decision about the projects I was going to be…
Read MoreA Love Letter to Internet James Franco
[show=jamesfranco size=large]I write today to profess a forbidden love. It has burned in me too long, and must be released… I’ve got…
Read MoreClearing The Cache – Success or Failure Edition
Like many of us, I spend quite a lot of time on the web and come across a staggering number of interesting…
Read MoreThought of the Day: Live in the Arena
A very thoughtful reader offered up an inspiring quotation in his comment yesterday to our recent post on AllPeers, Good Lessons in…
Read MoreThought of the Day: Failure, A Step Toward Success
We posted yesterday on the failure of AllPeers. This is an evergreen topic on founders’ sites like ours, failure being an experience…
Read MoreGood Lessons in One Graceful Failure
You may heave heard by now that the P2P startup AllPeers shut down yesterday, which cofounders Matthew Gertner and Cedric Maloux announced…
Read MoreThought of the Day: 'Yes, you can!'
Entrepreneurs often find inspiration in political leaders — as many of you did last week with our Churchill quotation. The effective ones…
Read MoreThought of the Day: Endurance
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill The man who won, lost and won…
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