Most users of popular photo-sharing sites like Instagram, Flickr and Pinterest know that anyone can view their vacation pictures if shared publicly.

The computer and the Internet are among the most important inventions of our era, but few people know who created them.

Successful strategy is about surprise. Running straight at a problem when it?s well established is suicide. Throughout military history frontal assaults against prepared defenses have failed.

Boston?s Innovation District is pricey. Construction cranes are everywhere, parking is scarce, and lunch options plentiful. Here in Holyoke?s newly-christened Innovation District, there are beautiful brick mill buildings, cheap hydroelectric power, and a new walkway alongside the canals ? but almost no people.

The role is often more on the nebulous side, especially at a fast-growing company. The result is a shifting set of responsibilities as the needs of the company change.

The traditionally secretive culture of old-school venture capital may be changing.

Overstock.com is building software, based on the bitcoin digital currency, that could allow the big-name etailer to issue corporate stock over the internet, sidestepping traditional stock exchanges such as the NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange.

Entrepreneurs who tell stories well can explain complex ideas, attract amazing talent, close customers, create partners, and raise financing with relative ease.

?First of all, don?t do it alone. When you?re alone, you have no one to bounce ideas off of; you don?t have someone to tell you you?re wrong.

Early-stage investment firm Y Combinator, probably the most famous and most successful seed-stage startup accelerator on the planet, currently doesn?t have any partners on the ground in Europe (or anywhere outside the United States for that matter).