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How Startups Can Win Big With VCs
[qi:012] Startups looking for VC funding need to make two things crystal clear when pitching to investors: One, how your company plans to distribute your product or services to the masses; and two, why...
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An inside look at the high-tech awakening in Las Vegas
I live in Las Vegas, and have since 2006. I’ve seen the best of times here — the times that spurred the construction of the behemoth CityCenter on the Las Vegas Strip — and I’ve seen the worst of times...
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For startups, Las Vegas is a beautifully clean slate
Las Vegas might not be the ideal place to try and build a technology hotbed, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be done. As I reported previously, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is investing an impressive amount...
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How startup life is different when you’re building stuff, not apps
Walk into the offices of most technology startups, and you’ll see lots of open space, lots of desks and lots of programmers hacking away at code. Walk into the office of a startup that’s creating...
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Tony Hsieh outlines Zappos’ plans for the office of the future
If smarter, cheaper computers can take care of more and more routine tasks going forward, then the future of work is all about those most human of capabilities – caring interaction and creativity. And...
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From Apple Maps to Autonomy: Top tech blunders of 2012
In plenty of ways, 2012 was a great year for the tech world. Apple released the iPhone 5 and iPad Mini. Eleven Kickstarter projects raised more than $1 million. Marissa Mayer took the reins at Yahoo....
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Zappos CEO rethinks urban transportation in Vegas with 100 Tesla Model S cars
Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh has been spending hundreds of millions of dollars revitalizing downtown Las Vegas into a tech, startup and culture hub. And now the head of the online shoe retailer is ushering in...
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Startup site Tech Cocktail raises $2.5M from Tony Hsieh’s Downtown Project
Tech Cocktail, a site that covers startup news and also organizes community events, has raised $2.5 million from Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s Downtown Project. The Downtown Project aims to help revitalize...
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Amazon Buying Out Zappos.com For About $850 Million
Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) is acquiring online shoe retailer Zappos.com for $807 million in stock and $40 million in cash. The companies said Zappos will retain its brand, management team and Las Vegas...
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Defining work in the digital age: an analysis by GigaOM Pro
The future of work is already here. It is just already distributed, one might say. The freelance economy, microtasking, mobile workers, coworking spaces, crowdsourcing: All of these point to how work...
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Twitter Report Card: Tony Hsieh
Whether you like it or not, Twitter is changing the way people communicate, and digital media companies are eager to harness this new tool.… Twitter Report Card: Tony Hsieh originally published by...
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Why Las Vegas needed a lot more than Tony Hsieh’s cult of personality
News that Tony Hsieh's Downtown Project in Las Vegas is imploding was surprising, but not shocking. When you live in Sin City, a lot of the talk is about sweetheart deals and the cult of Zappos rather...
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5 questions for Tony Hsieh and the Downtown Project
News this week of layoffs at Tony Hsieh's much-ballyhooed Downtown Project led to lots of questions about the visionary effort's future. A lot has been written by the press and Hsieh himself about the...
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One of the things that I see happening is that 100’s of startups have applied...
One of the things that I see happening is that 100’s of startups have applied for The Downtown Project (and Vegas Tech Fund) and have never been responded to or never been given any reason for being...
View ArticleJennifer Magnolfi on Marrisa Mayer’s ‘no remote work’ edict
I was talking with Jennifer Magnolfi, a leading proponent of the new thinking behind workplace design and its impact on innovation, creativity, and work culture. Since I had her on the line, I thought...
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US Census data show that remote work has grown in the past decade
The Wall Street Journal crunched some census data, and learned that remote work has grown a bit over the past ten years, but in a non-uniform fashion. Neil Shah, More Americans Working Remotely More...
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