Zappos: Our VCs Didn't Screw Us
Did the VCs Steamroll Zappos? In a word, no. $900 million dollars is not chump chang... Read story
Max Chafkin
Amazon Buys Zappos for More Than $900 Million
Tony Hsieh, CEO of online shoe retailer Zappos, announced on Twitter that he had agreed to sell the privately-held company to Amazon. Read story
CIT Gets a Reprieve; Guitar Hero Guys Strike Again
Who needs a government bail-out? One day before it planned to file for bankruptcy protection, the small business lender CIT Group received a $3 bil... Read story
A New Electric Motorcycle Hits the Road
A start-up company named Brammo introduces the Enertia, a battery-powered motorcycle Read story
Good Domain Names Grow Scarce
Most of the good, short words you would want for making a great domain name are already taken Read story
Turning Web Browsers Into Buyers
Strategies to reduce shopping-cart abandonment and keep prospective customers on your site longer Read story
Using an Innovative Communications Strategy to Fight the Taliban
Wexley School for Girls, an innovative ad agency that specializes in guerrilla marketing, is helping the Army's mission in Afghanistan Read story
What the Obama Plan Means for Business
Taking apart the new financial regulations. New York Times' columnist Joe Nocera Read story
How to Innovate and an E-Book Upstart Scores
If you're going to make a mess, make it a big one. That's the lesson Seattle entrepreneur and angel investor Read story
No Steve Jobs, Cheaper iPhone
The big Apple event wrapped up earlier today, and while we didn't get to see Steve Jobs, we did get some interesting stuff. There were some technical soft... Read story
Will Steve Jobs Take the Stage?
Apple to unveil a new iPhone . At least, we think that's what's going to happen today, as Apple throws its annual party for software developers in S... Read story
How to Reduce Email Clutter and Save on Travel
GM is bankrupt . Well, we saw this coming, but it's still depressing to wake up and discover that General Motors, once the world's largest company a... Read story
10 Questions for Paul Graham
1. What's your favorite part of a typical day? Walking to University Avenue in Palo Alto for breakfast and mulling over ideas. ... Read story
The Start-up Guru
Paul Graham's business school and investment fund, Y Combinator, has launched 145 companies -- for a lot less money than you would think Read story
Plastic Shows Off a Reader and a New Growth Industry
A Kindle Killer? Plastic Logic, a startup that is developing a reading device that could compete with Amazon.com's Kindle, Read story
Credit Cards Forced to Play Nice and the Facebook IPO
The government has your back (unless you're a credit card company). Serious talks are underway within the Obama administration to set up a Read story
Facebook Gets Into Payments and How to Use Social Media
A new growth strategy for Facebook? Facebook is gearing up to test a new payment platform, according to Read story
How to Turn a Brand Around and How to Retain Customers
Where we go from here. At the New York Times, former Inc. staff writer Darren Dahl has Read story
Jeff Bezos Announces New Kindle
The big Kindle. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is in New York right now, showing off his company's latest e-book gadget. The Kindle DX will cost $489, a... Read story
Jeff Bezos Announces New Kindle
The big Kindle. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is in New York right now, showing off his company's latest e-book gadget. The Kindle DX will cost $489, a... Read story
Facebook Valuation, Google Vanity, and Tesla on Letterman
What's Facebook worth? Facebook is negotiating with investors as it tries to raise additional capital, the New York Post Read story
10 Questions for Tony Hsieh
What's your favorite part of a typical day? Anytime I'm building something new. What's the least glamorous thing yo... Read story
The Zappos Way of Managing
How Tony Hsieh uses relentless innovation, stellar customer service, and a staff of believers to make Zappos.com an e-commerce juggernaut -- and one of the m... Read story
100 Days, An App Sells Out, and How to Give Feedback
Marking 100 Days . The big news: Today is the 100th day of the Obama presidency, and the Wall Street Journal tackles the milestone with Read story
Salary Cuts, Twitter, and RIP GeoCities
Take my salary, please. A growing number of entrepreneurs are cutting their own salaries to offset lagging sales, Read story
A Nation of Bloggers, Thought-Tweets, and Finding a Bank
Don't watch the stock market. Doomsaying economist Nouriel Roubini throws a bit of cold water on recent predictions of an imminent economic recover... Read story
Worst Customer Service, IPO Hope, and a Pizza Prank
Makings of a comeback? The Wall Street Journal has some good news this mornin... Read story
Skype Founders Mull Buy-Back and Digg on the Defensive
Skype founders may buy back the company . The New York Times reported Saturday that Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom have been trying to raise $1 bi... Read story
Twitter Founder Does Colbert
For your viewing pleasure this weekend: Twitter co-founder Biz Stone was on the Colbert Report yesterday evening. And if you need something a little more ... Read story
The Great Leaders Series: Marc Andreessen, Founder of Netscape Communications
He made the Internet popular, squared off against Microsoft, and then became one of the smartest chroniclers of his entrepreneurial era. Read story
10 Questions for Nolan Bushnell
1. What's your favorite part of a typical day? My shower in the early morning. It's this time of luxury and of solitude. It's whe... Read story
Nolan Bushnell is Back in the Game
Nolan Bushnell founded Atari, employed Steve Jobs, built a bunch of robots, and pretty much invented the whole cocky-young-entrepreneurial-genius pose. He's ... Read story
Update: A Shopping Site Scores
An appearance in Inc. produces a fortuitous phone call -- and a $1.3 million investment Read story
Raising Money Amid a Credit Crunch and Google Starts a VC
Could Google fund your next venture? Google already controls your ... Read story
To Twitter or to Tweet?
Magazine editors and writers often get caught up in the vagaries of grammar only to discover—after 15 minutes spent bickering over the Read story
A New Electric Ride and Raising Money Now
Tesla unveils new car. Elon Musk's electric car startup will show off it's latest model--a $50,000 sedan that the company hopes will take electric ... Read story
Getting a Fair Shake from VCs and Google Circa 2000
Term sheet red flags. When credit is scarce, investors are apt to get greedy, saddling startups with all sorts of onerous terms like liquidation pr... Read story
The Bonus Conundrum and Saving Money on Calls
Bad bonus? For a second day in a row, the business press is focusing on the $165 million in bonuses AIG paid to employees who helped bring the comp... Read story
How to Find Good People and Getting a Loan Gets Easier
How to find talent in unlikely places. What do people who make money by recruiting talented people do when the economy tanks? They keep recruiting,... Read story
Inside the Credit Crisis and Life after Google
How bad is the credit market? Really bad. New York Times columnist Joe Nocera heard again from one of his readers, a man referred to only... Read story
