Starting Up Lessons Learned from Bill Gross' 35 IPOs/Exits and 40 Failures The Idealab Founder talks about the importance of diversity of thought and fast decision making to startup success.
Management Keith Rabois on the Role of a COO, How to Hire and Why Transparency Matters The two most important things a COO needs to do, from the man who helped build LinkedIn, PayPal and Square.
Engineering Why Every Startup Should Pair Program Pair programming does a lot more than speed things up. It also deeply influences culture, says Pivotal Labs COO Edward Hieatt.
People & Culture The Inside Story of How 382 Recruiters Pursued an Imaginary Engineer Meebo Co-founder Elaine Wherry set up a scheme to test industry demand for engineers. Her experiment yielded crazy results.
Design How Old Magazines and Lamborghinis Inform Flipboard’s Design Process and Approach Flipboard's Didier Hilhorst on the best places to look for design inspiration and effective ways to channel it into your work.
Management Why Yammer Believes the Traditional Engineering Organizational Structure is Dead Yammer VP of Engineering Kris Gale explains why organizational norms are holding us back and what to do about it.
Engineering Why Firing Brilliant Assholes Is Required to Build a Great Engineering Culture SimpleGeo Co-founder Joe Stump on the challenges of engineering leadership and why attitude trumps talent more often than not.
People & Culture How Stripe Built One of Silicon Valley’s Best Engineering Teams Greg Brockman, the founding engineer at Stripe, talks about how to construct your hiring pipeline to maximize talent.
People & Culture How Etsy Grew their Number of Female Engineers by Almost 500% in One Year CTO Kellan Elliott-McCrea shares the strategy Etsy used to get more female engineers interested in joining the company.
People & Culture Kawasaki on Why Your Startup is Dead if You Can’t Enchant Entrepreneur and investor Guy Kawasaki on the importance of making your product approachable, surprising and delightful.
Management How to Win as a First-Time Founder, a Drew Houston Manifesto Dropbox CEO Drew Houston shares his strategy for getting up to speed fast to succeed as a novice founder.
Management Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees Evernote's CTO David Engberg goes in-depth on all the security threats you'll face as your startup grows and how to combat them.
