If you're planning on joining a startup, start smart. Venture financing in tech is at a fever pitch -- 3,700 companies received financing in 2011 alone, and all of them were issuers of stock options. This begs the questi…

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Bill Harris

So you want to start a company--but you know it will grow so much faster if you start it out with someone else. But whom? Your college friends seem to still be in the beer-guzzling phase, and networking events haven't re…

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Erica Douglass, Parnell Springmeyer

In the span of about 4 months, I had the opportunity to start my own local business, was offered a modeling contract, got my foot in the door on an excellent marketing team at a B2B software company, and was offered a he…

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Lisa Messelt

The human brain is a funny thing: frankly, in terms of how it operates it hasn’t changed much since our Cro-Magnon days. We’re social animals designed to live 10,000 years ago in small tribes, totally dependent on the re…

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Janet Crawford, Lisa Kavanaugh

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

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There was once a widespread fear of hackers due to their deep understanding of digital and technology, and their power to evoke chaos. In a twist of events, some of the world’s most notable brands, businesses and causes…

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Casey Caplowe, Joshua Teixeira

In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg said: “There is going to be an opportunity over the next five years or so to pick any industry and rethink it in a social way.” His prediction has come true. New profession-based social network…

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Calen Holbrooks, Jay Hallberg, Kirk Simpson, Rebecca Lieb

The Allen Curve, a theory developed by MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Tom Allen in the 1970's, asserts that the physical distance between individuals directly affects their levels of collaboration. This belief …

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Bill Aulet, Sanjay Sarma

Why try to replicate the success, scale or legacy of Silicon Valley in any meaningful way? Why compete with New York, London or Berlin, when talent will always be attracted to capitals of commerce and culture? Martin Bry…

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Martin Bryant, Paul Smith

At your first job, you filled your shelves with obscure books to impress your colleagues. As a first-time manager, you probably tried to be a super hero to save a project but were confused when your team seemed unhappy a…

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Elaine Wherry

With the technology to support mobile workstyles and a remote workforce, why are any of us still caught in the quagmire of the daily commute to our deadly desks, and will we ever see the day where big business decides to…

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Cali Williams Yost, Jon Froda, Kate Lister, Richard Leyland

Let's get out of the echo chamber of everyone telling each other how important social media is for a little bit and talk about the problems with social. If we're honest, it's hard to tell what actually works and what doe…

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Frank Burns, Jason Ford

Here comes another problem All wrapped up in solution It's ugly as it's strapped on And twice as hard to get behind Another sieve-fisted find ~ Fugazi Once companies to get to a size where you can't all have lunch togeth…

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Ryan McMinn

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

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Tech innovation is a pervasive theme at SXSW, and people are key to innovation. An ongoing challenge for our industry is how to keep working parents in, instead of dropping out, as they give birth to the next generation …

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Lisa Belkin, Sara DeWitt

It's no secret that increased access to digital distribution has dramatically changed the book publishing industry. For years anyone could be an author. Today, anyone can be a publisher. Self-publishing was once seen as …

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Erin Brown, Hugh Howey, Kirby Kim, Rachel Deahl

How global is creativity? We decided to swap one of Mason Zimbler’s US art directors with their UK office counterpart to find out and to answer a few other questions we had, like: Do their ideas translate? Do we approach…

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James Trezona, Kevin Kerner

eatPGH is a blog about Pittsburgh food started by four ladies in 2009. Delicious food and fresh, fun perspective was the name of the game for three years. The gals blogged with the burgeoning Pittsburgh food community an…

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Julia Gongaware, Laura Zorch, Mandy McFadden, Sarah Sudar

By 2014, Millennials (born between 1980-1995) will make up 36% of the workforce. This new group of workers, raised with technology and praise, brings a new set of expectations and demands. They were parented by overachie…

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Jennifer Selke, Tim Street

The world isn’t flat yet. But as it gets flatter, distributed teams are appearing in nearly every industry from clothing to customer service & from technology to teaching. This threatening reality gets even more complex …

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Dan Chuparkoff

The past few years have seen the emergence of a new trend in government. Where once government IT projects were characterised by large out-sourced projects, the skunkworks philosophy has begun to infect. Where once there…

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James Stewart, Matt Burton

Professional designers and developers like us are paid to create smart, badass work for our clients. All too often, however, our hard work fails to get approved simply because we didn’t present it effectively. In short, …

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Megan Mead, Michael Gibson

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

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After last year's SXSW I decided to quit my job. It was the first thing I did after coming back from Austin. Even though it was my second SXSW I couldn't find anything resembling the vibes, content, and people at my job …

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Jeroen van Eck

The media is flooded with stories of this new generation of workers, their need for constant praise, and perceived sense of entitlement. Millennials are described as arrogant, needy, and lacking in the work ethic found i…

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Amy Mixa, Betsy Flanagan, Jay Adelson, Luke Davids

The new economy has changed everything, allowing – or forcing – workers to leave their (un)comfortable 9-to-5 day jobs in order to pursue their passion in a freelance career that provides freedom, fulfillment, and locati…

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Jim Hopkinson

Anne-Marie Slaughter writes an open letter stating she never felt she could manage her job and have a healthy family life. Marissa Mayer becomes CEO of Yahoo! and announces she's pregnant and working through maternity l…

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Caroline Howard, Jesse Draper, Kate Brodock, Nicole Glaros

The dreaded résumé. How can one love something meant to condense and cram a person’s life and career into a handful of pages? We as job hunters hate them because they never seem to sufficiently convey what we do or how w…

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Mike Dunn

We’ve all digitally stalked hiring managers before: followed them on Twitter, sent a Facebook friend request, liked their Instagram photos, Highlighted them, sent an InMail. But, does it actually work, and how do hiring …

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Jocelyn Lai, Justin Gignac

A recent Slashdot.org post, “Modest Proposal for Stopping Hackers: Get Them Girlfriends,” had more than 500 comments within days. One issue that struck home with the audience was not that hackers need better social lives…

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Izzy Johnston, Jennifer Bensko Ha, Peter Vesterbacka

It’s downright insane how people communicate in the business world. We’re told to “ease users into the monetization channel” and to “create social-local campaigns to increase the optimization levels of our consumer-centr…

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Carla Borsoi, Grant Shellen

A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great …

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Survey after survey shows that strong organizational culture and philanthropic focus hold an increasing amount of weight for prospective employees when choosing a job. Yet, too often, employees are asked to check the oth…

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Dan Graham

“The place we choose to live affects every aspect of our being. It can determine the income we earn, the people we meet, the friends we make, the partners we choose, and the options available to our children”. Given the…

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Erica Swallow, Florent Peyre, Jeremy Fisher, Sean Ogle

The sad part about happiness: it doesn’t always come easy. In fact it’s often quite a challenge. We want to fix that. Delivering Happiness is a company dedicated to finding what makes you happy—and they aren’t messing ar…

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James Key Lim, Jenn Lim, Karen Zuckerman, Kevin Kubasik

Have you thought about what happens to your online life after you die? Should we tweet after death because we can? So much of our lives are now online, our art, accounts, social networks and photos, how do we manage this…

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Chanel Reynolds

If we're all working so hard in the pursuit of happiness why are so many of us unhappy at work. As work and play blend together in our mobile lives, happiness in the workplace has never been more important. Collaborati…

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Brian Welle, Chris Schultz, Jenn Lim

Luke Iseman quit his day job in 2008, tired of a cubicle and without a plan. He liked to make things, but can you really turn your hobby into a full-fledged business? And where do you even begin? Luke Iseman, founder of …

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Luke Iseman