Chaque vendredi, dans sa revue de presse, Maddyness vous propose une sélection d’articles qui ont retenu l’attention de la rédaction. Cette semaine, la chute de la licorne Mode Media, l'investissement de Mark Zuckerberg pour éradiquer les maladies, l'incroyable histoire de Slack, et
Inside the catastrophe at Mode Media, the billion-dollar juggernaut that suddenly went bust
From the winding freeway that links Silicon Valley with San Francisco, the giant Mode Media sign gracing the company's headquarters was a hard-to-miss proclamation alerting passing drivers to an internet success story with a rich, $1 billion valuation.
But last week, on the 11th floor of the gleaming building, the mood among employees was sour.
Source : Business Insider
What I learned spending the summer with startups
One of the balancing acts of running an accelerator: Keeping Target’s big corporate machine from crushing seedling companies.
Source : Recode
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s $3 billion effort aims to rid world of major diseases by end of century
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, on Wednesday announced a $3 billion effort to accelerate scientific research with the wildly ambitious goal of “curing all disease in our children’s lifetime.”
Source : The Washington Post
How Slack's Founders Turned a Failed Video Game into a Multibillion-Dollar Startup
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield describes to Inc. San Francisco Bureau Chief Jeff Bercovici the unlikely origin story behind the fastest-growing business application in the world.
Source : Inc.
500 millions de comptes d’utilisateurs de Yahoo! ont été piratés
Le groupe Internet Yahoo! a annoncé, jeudi 22 septembre, que 500 millions de comptes de ses utilisateurs avaient été piratés à la « fin de 2014 » par une entité probablement liée à un Etat. Les hackeurs ont volé des informations personnelles comme des dates de naissance, des noms, des adresses électroniques, des numéros de téléphone ou des mots de passe, a fait savoir le groupe dans un communiqué.
Source : Le Monde
The 6 Main Reasons Businesses Fail and How to Avoid Each
Success and failure are intimately connected. As we pursue success, we are also avoiding failure; and whenever we fail, we also elude success. This relationship is important and must not be ignored.
Source : Entrepreneur.com
