Twitter Co-Founder Confirms He's Working Full Time on New Startup

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Late last week, AllThingsD reported hearing that Twitter co-founder Biz Stone was close to launching a new mobile startup called Jelly. Stone confirmed Monday that he is working full time on the startup, but says that it won't be launching anytime soon.

"News of Jelly emerged unexpectedly early so I’ll wait a bit to share more about the team," Stone said in a blog post on the Jelly website. "In the meantime, I’ll say this. Jelly will be for everybody, it will be developed first and foremost for mobile devices, and it will be free. But, it won’t be ready for a while."

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YouTube Co-founder Prepping Possible Rival

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YouTube has had its share of competition over the years. Companies like Vimeo and DailyMotion (plus copyright lawsuits and crushing overhead costs) led Chad Hurley and the video-sharing site's co-founders to sell YouTube to Google. More recently Hulu and others have entered the fold. Soon Hurley, who left Google/YouTube in 2010, will launch a potential new rival.
"I wish [South by Southwest] was a month later because I could unveil the new product," Hurley said during a Q&A with Digg founder and Google Ventures partner Kevin Rose on Saturday afternoon. Without going into too much detail, he said the product is "primarily video-based...and gives flexibility for people to work together and create content."
Souunds like Hurley is talking about taking a second crack at creating a better YouTube. Rose asked whether that's indeed his intention. "We're not setting up to [kill YouTube]—now," Hurley said. He added, "there’s always going to be a place for YouTube." His intention, instead, is to create a platform better suited for collaboration.
Beyond hinting at his latest aspirations, Hurley used the interview session to shed some light on how YouTube found its current place within Google, recalling how some of the key deal discussions took place at Denny's, just as Yahoo was looking to squeeze in on the deal.

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Career Advice From LinkedIn's Billionaire Founder

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Reid Hoffman started his professional life with the intention of becoming an academic.

But then he realized: "in order to be a professional scholar, you have to dedicate a vast majority of your career to writing esoteric books that only 50 people will understand."

So instead, he got into the technology industry with a job at Apple, where he helped build eWorld, Apple's version of America Online.

Next, he started a company called SocialNet. It failed.

A friend of Hoffman's, Peter Thiel, recruited him to join a startup, PayPal. It sold to eBay in 2002.

Then Hoffman went on a long trip to Australia. There, he decided to create an Internet company.

It's still around.

It's LinkedIn.

Today, it's worth $19 billion – and Hoffman is its biggest shareholder.

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12 Business Lessons You Can Learn from Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos

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When current and aspiring tech entrepreneurs are asked who they look up to the most, they give the usual names: Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and maybe a few will mention Bill Gates. But, unfortunately, there aren’t many who mention Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.

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5 Success Secrets From The Co-Founder of Twitter

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Twitter co-founder Evan Williams has a new startup called Medium. It's a blogging platform that helps anyone with a good story get read by more people.

Today Williams wrote a post, "Formula for Entrepreneurial Success."

In it, he shares five secrets:

Surround yourself with great people

Try hard things

Say no to distractions

Remember to care for yourself

Family is more important than your startup

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Watch Reddit's Founders Describe How the Site Was Born

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These days Reddit is an internet behemoth that shapes opinion and rapidly spreads news, but sometimes it's easy to forget that it only started up in 2005. In this video, founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian explain how the site was born.

You might have heard snippets of the story before—like that fact that it was born out of a failed start-up idea, or that Huffman and Ohanian used fake accounts to fuel the site in the early days—but it's fascinating to listen to the pair talk about the history of the site. The story stretches from their first meeting at college right the way up to present day, and it's well worth ten minutes of your time.

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Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Talks about AWS, Innovation, Customer Service & Space Travel At Re: Invent

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Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and CEO, took the stage at the company’s re: Invent developer conference for a wide-ranging discussion with the company’s CTO Werner Vogels about Amazon’s web service and retail business, as well as his view about entrepreneurship and his personal projects, such as the 10,000 year clock and the Blue Origin space program.

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Startup Founders Share Their Inspirational Heroes

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Who's your hero? Who do you want to emulate, and why?

To find out who inspires startup founders to create and grow their companies, we asked eight successful young entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) about the individuals that they looked to emulate in their businesses and their lives.

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The Non-Technical Way Pinterest Grew From 3,000 Users To The Web's Third Largest Traffic Referrer

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While Pinterest is now the web's third-largest traffic referrer, the photo collection site wasn't always booming.

CEO Ben Silbermann told the latest Y Combinator class on Saturday that his site only had 3,000 users three months after its launch. A lot of people didn't understand Pinterest, and many VCs initially shot him down.

"There are lots of ways for investors to say no to you, and I’m pretty sure I’ve heard every single one,” AllThingsD's Liz Gannes quotes the young co-founder.

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7 Common Mistakes Young Startup Founders Make

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A lot of young people are starting companies.

But when you're young and inexperienced, you're more error prone.

Nick Tart spoke to many young founders while co-authoring a book, 50 Interviews: Young Entrepreneurs, What It Takes To Make More Than Your Parents.

He told us the most frequent business mistakes they made.

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Twitter Cofounders Unveil Their Newest Project, An Online Publishing Platform Called Medium

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Evan Williams and Biz Stone are looking to change the way we think of online publishing yet again.

On Tuesday, the Twitter cofounders lifted the curtain on their latest top secret project, a new online publishing tool called Medium. Williams tweeted out a "sneak peak" of the project and wrote that, "The @medium team is, pound for pound, the best I've ever worked with, bar none."

Medium provides users with beautifully designed platform for sharing and discovering blog posts and pictures. And yes, these posts can be longer than 140 characters.

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Pirate Bay Founder Submits Emotional Plea for Pardon

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After being convicted for his role in operating The Pirate Bay, site co-founder Peter Sunde should soon serve eight month jail sentence in a Swedish prison. Serving this sentence would be a disgrace to the justice system and a personal disaster, says Sunde, who submitted an emotional plea for pardon to the Swedish authorities this week.

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An Interview With Chris Coyier – Founder of CSS-Tricks

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Chris Coyier is a web designer and developer who not only builds websites, but also helps other people make their websites better. He’s the founder of CSS-Tricks and co-author of the famous book “Digging Into WordPress”. Chris is also involved in a few other projects, such as CodePen and ShopTalk Show.

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Skype founders new project is Vdio

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You've sold your company to Microsoft, now what? Build a content streaming platform apparently.

Online video steaming services are going through something akin to growing pains right now: Hulu’s sale was thwarted by lower prices than the company could accept, Netflix has been fumbling ever since it mumbled the phrase “Qwikster,” and YouTube has poured over $100+ million into becoming a viable content provider.

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