Nitasha Tiku


"The Worst Mancession in Recent History"

Atlantic: "Worst mancession in recent history." In nearly every age group, men are losing jobs at a faster rate than women. The male unemployment r...  Read story

Buffett Calls Obama's Stimulus Bill, "Half a Viagra"

The oracle from Omaha sees continued struggle in the future. Warren Buffett predicts rising unemployment and a possible second stimulus package in ...  Read story

Battle of the Browsers; Stick a Fork in Joost

Battle of the web browsers After its debut in 2004, non-profit run, open-source Web browser Firefox captured almost a quarter of the market with it...  Read story

Case Study: When Your Bank Stops Lending

When Able Planet's bank pulled his $2.5 million line of credit, founder Kevin Semcken had to think fast.  Read story

How to Manage Volunteer Software Developers

Companies like Etsy use developer tools such as APIs to entice developers to build mobile applications for free  Read story

The Way I Work: Dogfish Head's Sam Calagione

The founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery shares a typical work day -- answering e-mails, having laid-back meetings, and of course, sharing a few beers  Read story

Fabricated Facebook Scandals; LinkedIn’s New CEO

Facebook's creation myth through the Hollywood lens. The fact that former fiction writer Ben Mezrich sold his upcoming Facebook expose, The Acci...  Read story

How to Profit from Your Customers’ Gratitude

Insurers revoke policies to avoid paying high costs . A few days before a scheduled mastectomy, Robin Beaton's insurance company cancelled her polic...  Read story

Swapping Employees; The 10 Best Commencement Speeches

Swap 'em if you got 'em. Today's Chicago Tribune...  Read story

Orthodox Entrepreneurs; Vice Industries Feel the Pain

Zipcar Goes IPO . Zipcar, the car sharing service based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is going public next year, according to Read story

Twitter Asks Where; Hot New Sector: Food Trucks

A restaurant start-up for times like this... The Wall Street Journal takes a look today at the recent trend of intrepid gastronomers Read story

The End of Free; Fred Wilson Takes a Leap

Fred Wilson on Leaps of Faith . If you want to understand how your potential investors think, you should be reading Fred Wilson's blog. If you want ...  Read story

Horse Race: Branded Entertainment

Four start-ups vie for leadership in the lucrative new space of branded entertainment  Read story

AdWord Secrets; How Obama’s SCOTUS Pick Affects You

Googlenomics: breaking down the auction process in AdWords. Read story

Google’s Brain Drain; Small Banks Fail Stress Tests

The end goal of Google's newest algorithm? To find out which employees are most likely to quit. Brain drain doesn't only affect countries. Google i...  Read story

Advanta Cuts Its Credit Cards; A New Era in Antitrust

Europe fines Intel $1.45 billion in a record antitrust case. The EU released its scheduled verdict against Intel today and it was a resounding vict...  Read story

The Short URL Market Booms; Best iPhone Travel Apps

Teeny, tiny URL competition heats up. Of all the businesses to be booming right now, the URL shortener seems an unlikely one. Until recently, there...  Read story

E-Billers Dirty Tricks and Google’s Shaming Tactics

Google's shaming tactics for entitled employees . After a devastating wave of layoffs last week, Google has seen a rush of resumes from ex-Yahoo eng...  Read story

How To Raise Money Quickly; The Millionaires of the App World

The $100 million Facebook app . There's been much debate of late about business plans based on Read story

How to Check References and a $62,000 Wireless Bill

Man downloads movie in Mexico, gets a bill for $62,000 "If you're going out of the country for more than 15 seconds," advises Read story

How to: Trade Private Stock, Diversify, Save a Project

5 warning signs your project is in danger. Web Worker Daily<...  Read story

Your 6 Biggest Stimulus Questions; Tarp Banks Won’t Lend

Entrepreneurs six biggest questions on the stimulus bill answered The HR, benefits, and payroll experts from Paychex walk entrepreneurs through the...  Read story

CEOs Favorite Tax Write-offs and Underlings Seek Revenge

Facebook and Twitter rot your brain? From the annals of everything fun is bad for you, a new study conducted by a neuroscience group from the Unive...  Read story

An Industry Insider Makes a Film about the Beer Business

For her first documentary, Anat Baron focused on a subject she knew well: the craft beer business. In Beer Wars , Baron, who once worked as the gener...  Read story

How To Stop Procrastinating and Deliver a Perfect Pitch

Stop procrastinating. Now! Web Worker Daily shares its foolproof strat...  Read story

No More Military Contractors?; The Dwight Schrute Effect

Bad news about military contracts. The Washington Post and Read story

R&D in a Meltdown; Marketing that Taps into Obamamania

Don't hold back. Yes, the economy is in shambles, but be careful that you don't cut back too much--especially when it comes to developing new produ...  Read story

Google Eyes Twitter and Two Reasons to Hire Now

Twitter and Google in acquisition dance . That's t...  Read story

Reality TV for Entrepreneurs; SBA Lenders Say No to $15B

And you thought the competition for venture capital was fierce. Got a business plan and an appetite for televised humiliation? Good news: Survivor ...  Read story

Business For Sale Update: Baker Glass

After we profiled Baker Glass in our Read story

Revolutionary Roads: Mapping America's Innovation Capitals

30 tales of following where the spirit leads  Read story

Lessons in Generating Revenue and What Angels Want

Lessons in revenue generating from an unapologetic airline CEO. If you've seen the Spirit Airlines ad depicting a 30-something man in bed...  Read story

SBA Fraud; Facebook Surrenders; Obama, Obama, Obama

GAO alleges major fraud in SBA program. The Government Accountability Office says hundreds and possibly even thousands of businesses in the Histori...  Read story

Undo Button for Email and the Wisdom of Norm Brodsky

An undo button for email. You heard right. Those geniuses at Google have just released a feauture that allows you to take back an email after you'v...  Read story

How to: Monetize the Internet, File Taxes, Give Bonuses

Monetizing the internet. Any entrepreneur worth their bootstraps will tell you: revenue can't depend on web advertising alone. Acknowledg...  Read story

“Search Funds” and Google Voice’s One Phone for Life

Google muscles in on voice. "One phone number, for all your phones, for life." That's the promise from Google Voice, the company's game-c...  Read story

Lessons from a Target Vendor; An Investor Search Engine

Betting on green, even in this economy. Rob...  Read story

A Pill for Wannabe Entrepreneurs; LinkedIn Stimulus 2.0

A Prescribed Success. Fortune Small B...  Read story

Recording Employees’ Calls and Google’s Holy Grail

This call may be recorded. Read story

How to Switch Careers and End of Web 2.0

What comes after Web 2.0? Over at Wired, Bruce Sterling posts the full text of his speech, Read story