A few weeks ago, Eric Liu, founder of RocketLease, asked me if I would like to help him organize the Chicago Hacker News meetup. We wanted to class it up a bit over the traditional ?Meetup Pizza,? so I spent the morning at Whole Foods, trying to figure out how much cheese one buys to feed 100 people…

There?s been a lot of talk recently regarding the age old adage: the customer is always right.

An app for interested homebuyers (or nosy neighbors!) called

Products like the Oculus Rift and Project Morpheus have revolutionized the gaming landscape by making virtual reality headsets accessible to the average gamer, but they have a major drawback. Each are married to their platforms and only work with a relatively limited list of games.
To address that …

?Viral socializing,? or word of mouth, is how Slack founder and chief executive Stewart Butterfield described his startup?s marketing campaign.
No money spent on PR. Zero on advertising. No buses in San Francisco touting Slack banners. In other words, let the technology speak for itself, Butterfiel…