When you think of someone hustling to build a better life in New York City, do you think of a small business owner getting up in the wee hours of the morning t...

One key point about entrepreneurship (which I covered in my lengthy piece yesterday) is worth amplifying because society is often being lied to about what a...

[This piece was originally written for CNN on the occasion of Twitter’s IPO.] The Internet is buzzing with news of Twitter’s initial public offering on Thu...

Having had the good fortune to work with a broad range of entrepreneurs and get a front-row seat to the foundations of their success, I thought it’d be good to...

Much of the conversation about the shortage of technology talent in the United States focuses on how we can encourage more young people to go to college to bec...

Jen Bekman is the founder and CEO of 20×200, a marketplace helping artists make a living by turning everyone into an art collector. The Details Jen Bekman...

Evan Ratliff is a Wired journalist who became a startup founder, creating The Atavist to help longform writers profit from their own work instead of selling it...

Chad Dickerson is the CEO and former CTO of Etsy, the world’s largest marketplace of handmade art and vintage finds. The Details Chad Dickerson Com...

Matt Haughey’s the founder of MetaFilter, one of the web’s longest-running and most respected web communities, and its popular Q&A section, Ask MetaFilter....

If there were one lesson I’d want to impress upon people who are interested in succeeding in the technology industry, it would be, as I’ve said before, know y...

For a few months, those of us who care passionately about the New York City tech community have been debating the City’s Applied Sciences NYC plan, which wil...

I love entrepreneurship, and I love tech startups, but sometimes I’m struck by the lack of perspective that many tech entrepreneurs have about creating a start...

One of the first questions venture capital investors ask people who make tech products and tech startups is if the entrepreneurs behind them are just trying to...

Recently, I’ve had the chance to talk to a lot of talented people who are working on new projects or new startups, most of which aren’t really companies yet,...

Last week, Twitter announced its new advertising system , called promoted tweets. I was at Twitter’s Chirp conference as a speaker, so I got an up-close loo...

Today’s Blog of the Year Picks: Ask the Wizard and Fortuitous . Between these two blogs, there have barely been twenty posts this year. Yet either o...

One of the nice things about independent web entrepreneurs is that they (we?) can draw contrasts against those who are giant publicly-traded faceless corporati...

A couple of months ago, I got to talk to Lynne about business blogging for Fast Company’s podcasts series . I’m pretty happy with how it turned out, though...

One of the goals a lot of people have when they become entrepreneurs is to have “fuck you” money: Enough personal wealth to be able to say “fuck you” to whomev...

There weren’t a whole lot of really new things announced at the Web 2.0 conference, mostly large companies saying what you’d expect. But one of the launches...

Hmm, much as I love Valleywag, there’s some factual inaccuracies in the loving tribute posted about me today. It asserts that a Vault.com story says that I w...

Best post I’ve seen today: Ari Paparo talks about the differences between del.icio.us and Blink . Blink was Ari’s startup during the bubble, which raised $13...

I love magazines. Love, love, love. They’re full of short, frequently-updated content and they make good use of layout and pictures: that’s what I love in a me...

Congratulations to Andre for doing something fun and new and slightly risky. I’d already had a good opinion of FMPub based on John Battelle’s reputation, b...

I talk to a lot of consultants, freelancers, and small businesses who do web work, and I used to be a freelancer myself, so sometimes I get asked for advice on...

I’m moving to San Francisco. That probably bears some explanation. As I’m sure all of you know, I work for Six Apart, which is based in the Bay Area, and the...

Liz nails one of my recurrent peeves about people who consider themselves entrepreneurs these days: It amazes me that people have such short memories. Th...

I’m only going to repeat this once more: It doesn’t matter if you thought of it first, or if your idea is better. If you didn’t do anything with it, if you did...

Fast Company covers RCB ‘s book. The medium couldn’t have a better ambassador....

So, let’s say you’re at the top of your field. You might say you’re at the Apex. And, since you’re the best, you might want to instill in others in your organi...

Lane (as in "Congratulations, Lane!") goes more into depth on the comments about starting a business that he made at the panel Peter was talking ab...

Okay, let’s try that again… Peter has semi-announced the company that he and a few others are working on. It looks like a great team, and I wish them all the...

I didn’t lose my job, it’s right where I left it. It’s just that it’s not mine anymore…...

So I’ve been reading what Brig and Ariana have written over the past few weeks, and I’m struck because they seem to be pondering the same question as me:...

I want to start my own company again. Ironic, since I started my last company in the same kind of precession economy that we’re in right now. But it’ll be cool...

Dammit, she stole my idea !...

More proof that the DeepLeap crew is one of the coolest groups of folks on the web. Now I don’t know whether my dream job is with them or Pyra ....