Last Week in Betabeat: Hangin’ on to Your Startup, Jellyfish With Too Much Cash and a Pivotal Labs Merger?

Ben Weitzenkorn — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:52:44 -0400

To busy to check your daily Betabeat? Here are the highlights from last week, as selected by the editors.

Required Reading: How to Avoid Being Pushed Out of the Company You Founded
Until recently, Foursquare cofounders Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai—let’s call them Denveen—were social media’s celebrity couple.

Required Reading: Sources Say Pivotal Labs Has Been Contemplating a Sale For Years, Wants To Scale to ‘Sapient-Levels of Huge’
“One of the smartest Web consulting firms" is in talks to be acquired by a large technology company.

Required Reading: Jellyfish Tanks, Funded 54 Times Over on Kickstarter, Turn Out to Be Jellyfish Death Traps
Maybe letting projects raise more money than they asked for isn't such a good idea.

Required Reading: Former Coworkers Dish on Sabu, the LulzSec Leader Turned FBI Snitch
Apparently he was “too busy to play video games” with his coworkers. :'(

VITAMINS:
-Meet Your Spring 2012 TechStars NYC Class: ‘They All Take Big Swings’
-In Counterclaim Against TV Networks, Aereo Compares Itself to the Advent of the VCR and DVD
-New Startup Incubator Soho TechLabs is Hiring

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