I had the chance to talk with another freelancer the other day: she’s been offered the opportunity to take on a six-month project where she’d essentially be working full-time for a single client. The money is good, but there’s a catch in the contract—a non-compete clause.
The Standard Non-Compete Clause
The idea behind non-compete clauses grew out of employers wanting to make sure that when an employee left the company, he didn’t take any clients with him. Most clauses are phrased so that the (...)
From AllThingsD:
Twitter CEO Evan Williams did not announce the new ad platform the company is working on today.
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Twitter founder Evan Williams was widely expected to announce an advertising platform at the SXSW conference yesterday, but while he announced something with dozens of major media partners, it wasn’t an ad platform — it was something called @anywhere. And what is @anywhere? Good question. In fact, that’s just one of the many good questions that attendees hoped in vain would be asked by Umair Haque of Harvard Business Review, whose interviewing skills received less than critical acclaim during (...)
I can’t see this on my own Facebook profile yet, but we’ve gotten a number of tips in our inbox in the past 10 minutes so it’s safe to assume it’s not a hoax or anything: Facebook appears to have started enabling users to generate custom two-dimensional QR codes.
From the looks of the screenshot embedded above, there are two types of QR codes: a personal barcode or a “status QR barcode”. This also seems to appear on Facebook Fan Pages.
Judging from the tweets about this, the QR codes don’t (...)
(Editor’s note: Don Rainey is a general partner at Grotech Ventures and author of the “VC in DC” blog. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.)
Throughout the financial crisis of 2008-09, most venture capitalists wisely advised startups to hunker down. The best bet, they said, was to lower expenses and, above all else, avoid fundraising in 2009, since all eyes were on 2010 as the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel.
The advice, as it turns out, was somewhat short-sighted.
We are now (...)
AOL (NYSE: AOL) has to prove its mettle this year in full public view, in more ways than one. And 2010 may not be a great year for compensation increase for the top execs. In line with that, the company has decided to not increase based salary this year, according to a SEC proxy filing this morning, same as 2009. However, as always, other perks more than make up for it. Interestingly, Ted Cahall, till recently the CTO of AOL, got a secondary retention payment 10 days before the company (...)
"I've decided to write a book," I told my wife over a year ago.
She gave me that what-the-bleep-are-you-talking-about look. You may be familiar with your spouse.
"You've what?"
"I've decided to write a book," I repeated, slightly less confidently.
"On what?"
"Venture capital and entreneurship."
"Why?"
"Well, when I was an entrepreneur, I couldn't find any good books on how this mysterious capital-raising process worked and how to harness the resources and knowledge of (...)
The upcoming radical reboot of the social news site will pull in data from Twitter, Facebook and other powerful tools to help connect users to the stories most relevant to them at any given time. Digg CEO Jay Edelson lays out the master plan.
Not long after I posted about Dave Jilk’s experience with the Pogoplug, he started using the phrase “Pogoplug Simple” to describe one of the goals of Standing Cloud. The idea is that technology products should be so easy to set up and use that the experience is vaguely unsatisfying – you feel like you didn’t do anything. Standing Cloud – a company we provided seed funding for last year - is launching publicly this week with its Trial Edition and I think they’ve managed to make cloud application (...)
