December17, 2013 7 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. We all have things that we want to achieve in our lives -- getting into the better shape, building a successful business, raising a wonderful family, writing a best-selling book, winning a championship, and so…

Revelations of N.S.A. Spying Cost U.S. Tech Companies IBM's display at a German trade fair. The company is spending $1.2 billion to build cloud computing centers around the world to lure foreign custo

TL;DR Raised $57 million in Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation by Benchmark Capital and Bain Capital Ventures. Triple digit year-over-year growth in annual revenue since launching

Do you love to program? Don't expect to ever become CEO unless you start your own company - but even then the needs of leadership will likely result in not writing any more code. In most jobs as long

Today, a Canary build of Google Chrome removed something kind of important from the browser: the URL. Of course it still supports them, but the time where users actually see URLs is ending. With Chrom

Square and Box would seem to be the very epitome of every startup founder’s dream of reaching the pinnacle of entrepreneurial success. Take a kernel of an idea and turn it into a massive, multi-billio

Published in I. M. H. O. · 6 min read · Aug 14, 2013 -- Update (Sept 2014): I gave a talk on this topic during lecture 1 of Stanford’s CS 183B course. Check out the video if you’d like to hear more ab

This is a story about two roads — Should and Must. It’s a pep talk for anyone who’s chosen Should for far too long — months, years, maybe a lifetime — and feels like it’s about time they gave Must a s

Is it possible to propose a software canon? To enumerate great works of software that are deeply influential—that changed the nature of the code that followed? Canons emerge over time, as certain works gain in critical appreciation. But software is mutable stuff, quick to obsolesce. Only banks,…

How a Florida kid's "stupid app” saved his family’s home and landed him on the main stage at Facebook Michael Sayman is not your average tech entrepreneur. For one thing, he’s 17 years old and started

(Photo: miroslavmisiura/Shutterstock) They called it the “Main Line Takeover Project”—a drug ring operating in schools and colleges up and down a moneyed corridor of the Philadelphia suburbs. A ventur

These were the days when everyone was still beautiful, and we were all still rich. The things big bubble-pop doomsayers kept predicting hadn't happened yet, and Facebook was on top of everything else.

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Today at f8, we announced Anonymous Login, a brand new way to log into apps without sharing any personal information from Facebook, along with a new version of Facebook Login with even better privacy

We've been trying to figure out the moment Twitter turned, retracing tweets to see whether there was something specific that soured the platform. Something is wrong on Twitter. And people are noticing

April 25, 2014 Replacing the PC When I first saw the iPad, I knew it was going to replace the personal computer for the vast majority of people. I was wrong. Yes, the iPad is easier, faster, and cheap

Patrick Moberg didn't set out to make the most addictive mobile game of 2013. He didn't set out to make a game at all. Moberg's goal was just to experiment with different user interaction designs for

“Here’s your ‘buzzword bingo’ card for the meeting,” Wally says to Dilbert, handing him a piece of paper. “If the boss uses a buzzword on your card, you check it off. The objective is to fill a row.”

Josh Miller: In response to @jennydeluxe's article about NYC tech, I wrote a quick post about why it might be the wrong framing: https://t.co/Y4ljGP0YjG

One of the most important characteristics of a successful start-up, and even many other companies, is that it’s growing . As long as your graph of revenue or users is moving up and to the right, thing

Ken Banks / Flickr Illiteracy isn't a major issue for much of the Western world, but it remains endemic in many developing countries, where incomes are low and books are scarce. That may be changing,

A modest proposal Published in The Message · 4 min read · Apr 29, 2014 -- The animated GIF is the Internet’s native art form. But 25 years later, we still haven’t decided how to pronounce it. We’ve sp

Apple's revenue has pretty much stopped growing. This chart shows the quarterly revenue the company has reported - a series of ever larger spikes upward around new product launches, but with a flatten

One day in July 2001, Larry Page decided to fire Google’s project managers. All of them. It was just five years since Page, then a 22-year-old graduate student at Stanford, was struck in the middle of the night with a vision. In it, he somehow managed to download the entire Web and by examining the…

In 2007, at a public forum at Coe College, in Iowa, Presidential candidate Barack Obama was asked about net neutrality. Specifically, “Would you make it a priority in your first year of office to rein

These Upworthy Titles Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity. But You Won’t Believe What Happens Next. Clickbait is bad. Clickbait is ruining journalism. Everyone knows this. Everyone hates the formulaic

As the number of Homebrew companies grow, some are preparing for a Series A in 2014 (we’ve backed more teams than are currently public on our website). While very few people start companies simply bec

Hey team, Our next team meeting is dedicated to Core Values, which are essential to building our culture. It occurred to me that before this meeting, I should write you a short letter on why culture i

The evolution of Buffer’s core scheduling Published in Buffer Stories · 6 min read · Mar 3, 2014 -- At the core of how Buffer schedules posts is one line of a cronjob configuration that hasn’t been to

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By the end of their dinner at a small Italian restaurant in New York’s West Village, Leah is getting antsy to part ways with her boyfriend Ryan, so that she can go meet up with her boyfriend Jim. It’s