Vevo CEO Rio Caraeff's dad took that famous photo of Jimi Hendrix lighting his guitar on fire at the Monterey Pop Festival. So, yeah, he knows a thing or two about the visual component to music.
In his new book, Aisle50 cofounder Christopher Steiner counts the (many, many) ways digits have come to dominate. "If you look at who has the biggest opportunity in society right now," he says, "it’s developers."
Brothers Patrick and John Collison built their first startup at Y Combinator in 2007, and sold it for millions. Now, the YC alums have branched out on their own for white-hot payments startup Stripe.
In the investment world, brand is everything--and Y Combinator is the undisputed king of startup accelerators. But now they face stiff competition from a new breed of competitors.
That's not a sequel to "Escape From New York" (unfortunately!), that's what Debbie Landa, founder of Vancouver’s GrowConf, says investors and entrepreneurs need to do. Here's why the San Francisco resident believes that.