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· Alan Van

Wikileaf is the Startup Stoners Everywhere Will Love

Money: It’s everything.

· Benny Luo

VICE: Why You Must Break Rules in Order to Innovate

You may or may not know DJ Vice, but in case you don’t, you might recognize his track “The World is Our Playground,” which has been featured in Bud Light’s latest “Up For Whatever” campaign videos. Vice, who recently dropped the “DJ” from his name, has been DJing professionally…

· Editorial Staff

We Dare You To Watch This Gripping Video of Traffic Without Smiling

Directed by Fernando Livschitz, “Rush Hour” is comprised of amazing footage manipulated to create a “traffic ballet” of all types of vehicles and the pedestrians that are just inches from being run over by them. If only all traffic was this seamless and smooth. Warning: This…

· Sarah Lesnar

Female Entrepreneur Propositioned for Sex by Investor Gives Startup Survival Tips

“Hey G. I will not leave Berlin until having sex with you. Deal?” That was the proposition sent to female tech entrepreneur Gesche Haas from an angel investor she had met at a tech networking event. The 10-word email also included a link to the investor’s professional details,…

· Benny Luo

Renowned Sex Therapist: Are Successful Men More Likely to Cheat?

If there is one thing we all need help with as entrepreneurs, it’s not growing businesses or marketing for success. It’s managing our personal lives with others. If our generation’s infamous hookup culture and worst Tinder fails are any indication, we don’t need business advice,…

· Max Chang

How a Butler Service Called Alfred Won $50,000 at This Year’s TechCrunch Disrupt

Another TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco has come and gone, and the results of the pitch competition have been decided. 26 companies, plus two Audience Choice winners, pitched their hearts out trying to impress the tech gods/ investors that made up the panel. This year’s…

· Benny Luo

Former Apple Employee Sam Sung Has Some Sage Advice For Setting Yourself Apart in Business

Sam Sung made headlines back in 2012 when his Apple business card went viral on the internet. People simply found it hilarious that an Apple employee could bear the name of the company’s biggest competitor.

· Editorial Staff

Here’s Everything We Know About the iPhone 6 So Far

This is what it will look like. There will be two versions of the iPhone 6. One is sized at 4.7 inches and the other at 5.5 inches.

· Max Chang

How a College Freshman Became a $1000/hr Tutor for the Wealthy Elite

Every college entrepreneur faces the same challenge- going through the rigorous process of trial and error while figuring out how to hit the market, identifying their customer base, and learning to manage their startup. It’s especially challenging when you are, admittedly, a…

· Sriram Krishnan

10 Things a Celebrity Can Do To Ensure They Never Get Hacked

You’re a celebrity and you’re worried about getting hacked – or worse – you’ve already been hacked and you’re unsure of how to use technology in a way that is safe. First, you deserve an apology from all of us who work in tech. This should be easier and more bullet-proof but it…

· Benji Hyam

Here’s Why You Can’t Find a Technical Co-Founder For Your Startup

For any non-technical entrepreneur, there’s a high probability that you’ve had a great idea that has fallen flat because you didn’t know where to get started. Chances are that when you had that great idea, you immediately thought to yourself “where am I going to find someone to…

· Waylae Gregoire

Rotten Tomatoes Founder: How His Startup Survived the Last Market Crash — Because It’s About to Happen Again

i Our generation’s entrepreneurs could really use some wisdom right about now. A financial crisis might be looming and young entrepreneurs today were probably in middle school when the last one hit — we grasshoppers clearly haven’t learned.

· Benny Luo

D.A. Wallach: Bringing An Artist’s Touch to Technology

It’s extremely rare to find people who seem to have an amazing balance of everything. D.A. Wallach is one of these people. For one, he’s an accomplished scholar who attended Harvard University and graduated with honors in African-American studies. Secondly, he’s a successful…

· Editorial Staff

Ferrari is Pissed Over Deadmau5’s “Purrari”

Sometimes when you buy something, you still don’t actually own it, even if you do pay over $300,000 for it. That’s what EDM artist Deadmau5 discovered during a row he had with Ferrari’s legal team over his customized Nyan cat themed 2013 Ferrari 458 Spider F1 Edition…

· Joe Vargas

10 Crucial Lessons I Learned About Business From the Nightlife Industry

First off, I never went to business school, no one taught me how to run a business and half of my adulthood, I was in the United States Navy working on the engine of a ship as a mechanic and became an Operations Specialist where I navigated the ship when we were out to sea. I…

· Editorial Staff

Malaysia Airlines is Currently Losing $1.6 Million a Day Because Flights Are Near Empty [PHOTOS]

In March, Malaysia Airline Flight 370, disappeared suddenly while traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Last month, Flight 17 was shot down while flying over Ukraine. With the two tragedies tied to them, Malaysian Airlines has not been the most popular kid in the block. Even…

· Editorial Staff

The Average Tech Worker Made $291,497 Here in 2013

If you are looking for a new job in tech, you may want to move to the Bay Area after reading how much the average worker makes there. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and commercial real estate firm JLL, high-tech workers in San Francisco made an average of…

· Benji Hyam

90 Percent of Startups Fail Because They Don’t Do This

Yesterday while on Growth Hackers, I came across an article by Pieter Levels AKA Levels.io titled “How I Got My Startup to #1 on Product Hunt and Hacker News by Accident.” (I highly recommend reading this) He’s challenging himself to build 12 startups in 12 months.

· Benny Luo

Jesse Waits: How a Shy Kid From Hawaii Became the Owner of One of the Hottest Clubs in Vegas.

The usual way entrepreneurs launch businesses today start with building a product, raising funds, and then scaling, or some other combination in that realm. It’s rare to find an entrepreneur who truly started from the bottom and worked their way up to the top. This is why I find…

· Sarah Lesnar

Angel Investor Makes Inappropriate Advance at Female Techie, Gets Exactly What He Deserves

Updated [8/20/2014 11:06 a.m. PST] Pavel Curda has confessed and released a formal apology via The Next Web. “I regret sending the messages while I was in Berlin in July, mentioned recently in the press. I apologise for them and I am ready to apologise again in person with a big…