The investors assembled at Y Combinator’s Demo Day in Mountain View are no strangers to the challenges of finding top engineering talent in Silicon Valley. So the crowd was especially attuned to pitches from HireArt and Coderwall, which are working to...

Internet startups are notorious for calling themselves the (insert hot company here) for (insert sector of your startup here). For example: the Facebook for students, the Groupon for travel, or the Twitter for businesses. But the companies presenting at Y...

It’s a reversal of roles in Silicon Valley’s startup scene: Investors are clamoring for face time with entrepreneurs. Hundreds of tech’s most prominent backers packed into an auditorium at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, today to hear two-minute...

Broad shifts in the technology landscape and the large cash positions of some of its biggest players drove an increase in the amount spent on acquisitions last year, PricewaterhouseCoopers said in a study released today. Technology companies spent $125 billion...

After eight technology startups, several books and a decade of teaching, some would say that Steve Blank has turned the art of creating a tech company into a science. Still, he never thought his skills would be desired by actual...

T. Rowe Price is bolstering its bet on technology startups, and no longer just the ones that get all the headlines. Following investments in Facebook, Twitter, Zynga and Angie’s List among others, the mutual fund company today led a $15...

For venture capital funds not focused on social networking, mobile apps or e-commerce, there’s still hope when it comes to fundraising. OpenView Venture Partners took less than three months to raise its latest $200 million fund, and all of that...

The best way for a venture capital firm to make a splash in Silicon Valley is to turn a signature investment into a big time profit. It looks like Bain Capital Ventures has arrived, thanks to Amazon.com’s $775 million acquisition...

Steve Jobs didn’t spend much time worrying about shareholders’ complaints. I recall talking with him in 2008 about some mini-crisis that had caused Apple’s stock to dip. “Who gives a s– about the stock price,” he let slip before getting...

Kevin Rose likes four-letter words, and he’s about to learn a new one: GOOG. The search giant is hiring Rose, whose social media endeavors have included founding crowd-source news site Digg; Milk, which made the now-defunct Oink app; and Revision3,...