Silicon Alley Insider (Wednesday)

Before Amazon acquired online shoe retailer Zappos, CEO Tony Hsieh had one condition for Amazon to meet before talks even began – that Zappos would remain independent and be able to expand upon its own brand and culture.

Amazon agreed becau...

Silicon Alley Insider (Monday)

After he graduated from Harvard with a degree in Computer Science, Tony Hsieh landed what seemed like a dream job at Oracle. But he quickly realized however that the corporate environment wasn't for him and quit after just five months.

Hsieh and ...

Silicon Alley Insider (Thursday)

I recently had an article sent to be me about why Wesabe lost and a few people asked me for a response since I was #5 at Mint.

I initially saw Mint with Aaron Patzer and Dave McClure in November/December of 2006. Instantly, I was in love....

TechCrunch (Wednesday)
Parenting focused e-commerce site EcoMom, which provides a curated shopping experience for moms, has just received $1.1 million in Series A funding from angels and VCs alike. Investors in the round include Dan Gould (founder of Newroo and Namesake), Cyan ...

Techdirt (Monday)
I remember, years ago, when I was taking an organizational behavior class in college, being surprised to learn of a series of studies that suggested that happy workers were not more productive workers. The whole area of study seemed a bit questionable to ...

TechCrunch (Monday)
Just when the tech community wet its rap pallette with MC Hammer (backed by the notorious dance moves of TechCrunch editor Erick Schonfeld), Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh follows up with a ditty of his own (featuring the talents of Laura Lombardi). Hsieh has been ...