A couple of weeks ago I had a great discussion with Renat from elastic.io about the characteristics of the self serve model for SaaS startups and more specifically about the role that marketing / branding have in it when you are at early stage.

The ?unbundling? of mobile applications is emerging as the trend du jour for large tech companies. Google, Facebook and Foursquare have all recently made headlines for dismantling some of their mobile software to create and launch multiple apps.

In August, a widely reported report from comScore, a measurement firm, concluded that the majority of smartphone users in the United States download precisely zero apps in any given month.

Attorney Mary Russell, Stock Option Counsel, counsels individual employees and founders to negotiate, maximize and monetize their stock options and other startup stock. You are invited to contact Stock Option Counsel for help in negotiating and evaluating your job offers and post-acquisition employment agreements, making stock option exercise and tax decisions and identifying your rights and opportunities to sell startup stock.

What?s the number one thing that holds most people back from success?

It?s not intelligence or hard work.

It?s your attitude.

Open Payments (commonly known as the Sunshine Act) requires applicable manufacturers and applicable group purchasing organizations (GPOs) to report certain payments and other transfers of value given to physicians and teaching hospitals, and any ownership or investment interest physicians, or their immediate family members, have in their company.

In a filing with regulators this morning, HubSpot set expectations for its long-anticipated IPO. The Cambridge, Mass., marketing SaaS company expects its IPO to price between $19 and $21 a share and trade on the NYSE under the ticker, “HUBS.”

Doctors and nurses are finally volunteering to fight the Ebola virus in West Africa after a long period of paralyzing fear in which almost none stepped forward.

Facebook has failed repeatedly to get us to use complicated lists and privacy settings to share intimate moments with just our closest friends and family. It?s clumsy and confusing doing that with the same composer for blasting News Feed updates to everyone. But now Facebook is polishing off a new app codenamed ?Moments? designed to make this micro-sharing much simpler, multiple sources tell TechCrunch, including one who has seen a live internal version of the app.

A few weeks ago I had coffee with an experienced product designer. Let?s call him Carl. He?d been working at a respected San Francisco startup for five years, but he was getting restless. Carl had excellent experience and skills.