Venture Creators Blog

Reid Hoffman, founder of Linkedin, gives us a guided tour of the Linkedin HQ in Palo Alto. It’s an excellent glimpse at pure Silicon Valley culture, well-worth spending  its 5 minutes duration.
Courtesy of Loic Lemeur, at whose post you can also download the video and the sound.
Update: See what the blogosphere says about Reid Hoffman.
 

From SearchCRM.com:

[Michael Maoz, Research VP at Gardner Inc.,] cited the widely publicized example of an AOL customer who recorded every step of their painful process of trying to cancel their subscription from the Internet service provider. The experience was placed online, shared via Digg and eventually found its way onto MSNBC and The Wall Street […]

Don Dodge, an experienced startup veteran currently on Microsoft' Emergent Business Team, gives us an insight on how Microsoft chooses its acquisitions.
Don finishes with a piece of advice for entrepreneurs:
"Entrepreneurs should remember this. The "barriers to entry" are most often market position, not technical brilliance. I have heard start-ups say "we have a two year […]

Apparently, Google and Yahoo are getting attacked on their core business by a continuous increase in fake clicks on Online Ads. These two stand to lose the most if advertisers become increasingly disgruntled. Read more here.

Also from Bnoopy, another post worth reviving, this time about current requirements for hiring a software engineer. Engineer Interview Triage? is a post that advocates that any software engineer you hire should have a blog, should have a homepage and should contribute to an open source project. The fact that this is applicable to […]