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Top 10 Best Companies to Work For

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Need a job? Whether you’re looking for your first career or a much needed change, it’s hard to know which jobs are good and which will make you feel like Peter Gibbons in Office Space. Lucky for you, we’ve compiled a list of some of the best places to work. You’re welcome.

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Mobile Tech in Africa: An Interview with the Praekelt Foundation

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The Praekelt Foundation is the non-profit arm of successful Johannesburg technology consulting company Praekelt Consulting. Founded by Endeavor-sponsored “high-impact entrepreneur” Gustav Praekelt, this non-profit organization is focused on using its for-profit expertise, especially mobile-based technology, to raise awareness about issues [...]

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Startup Profile: Q+A with Udemy.com Co-Founder Gagan Biyani

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Is there something you’ve always wanted to learn?  I’m sure many of us have something we’d like to know more about, a skill we’d like to master, or maybe even just a curiosity we’d like to explore. Enter Udemy. Udemy’s [...]

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Micromidas: an Innovative Approach to Plastic

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We all know that haste makes waste. But what if waste could make…plastic? Micromidas, a biotech startup based in Sacramento, is working on a way to do just that. Micromidas does work with creating bioplastics using human waste. The process [...]

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Headlines You Don’t Want to Miss

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1. Google’s Andy Rubin Announces Honeycomb coming ‘next year’, flashes Motorola Android tablet prototype at D: Dive Into Mobile

2. iPad 2 coming by the end of February 2011

3. Google introduces Nexus S with Gingerbread

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Pitching: The Importance of Telling a Story

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After almost 2 years and roughly different 2,000 company pitches, I have some initial observations about successfully pitching for a fund raise that I’ve enumerated below. 1. Every business is different but all great pitches have stories that play to [...]

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The Valley Girl Shares With ShareThis!

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“Everyone shares,” says Tim Schigel, CEO of ShareThis.  And its true! Sharing is a new phenomenon people would never have recognized in years past. Who knew that every single time someone shared something with a friend would be valuable? Well, it [...]

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The Valley Girl Meets SimpleGeo

Location-based services are the biggest trend since social media, and Bay Area startup SimpleGeo is trying to cash in. Joe Stump, founder and CTO of SimpleGeo says, “It’s a gold rush and we’re selling the shovels.” What began as an idea for a [...]

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The Valley Girl Meets Dropbox, A Startup Going Head-To-Head With Google

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Dropbox is a “hard drive in the clouds,” says the hot Silicon Valley startup’s very humble founder and CEO, an MIT grad named Drew Houston. Drew came up with the idea upon having forgotten his USB drive on a trip [...]

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Q+A with Vinod Khosla

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Jesse Draper interviewed Vinod Khosla, one of the founders of SUN Microsystems and founder of Khosla Ventures on The Valley Girl Show. In this Q+A, they talk about the origin of SUN Microsystems, what it means to be an entrepreneur, and the future of clean tech.

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