An early look at Super Bowl ads, Mark Cuban spouts off about college, big solutions to little problems, the New York Times launches an incubator, women execs show off, tech’s race for second place… This week’s notable news and tantalizing tibits for young treps:
1. Spoiler alert! Super Bowl ads: For those who don’t hold Super Bowl Sunday’s commercials sacrosanct, here’s an early look at the big ads that’ll play during the big game. (Business Insider)
2. Mark Cuban on college: Mark Cuban compares college to the newspaper industry, giving a prophetic description of why colleges will soon be going out of business if they don’t start acting like a business. (Blog Maverick)
3. Spinning gold: Just because people who are effortlessly successful are fascinating. Here’s the tale of Greg Chait, the 34-year-old designer behind the lofty knits at the Elder Statesman. (New York Times)
4. Fixing pesky problems: These crafty treps have found solutions to some of life’s most annoying issues. Separating yokes from egg whites confound anyone else? (Business Insider)
5. The Times‘ incubator: timeSpace, a new program from the Old Gray Lady will bring media focused entrepreneurs in-house to share their space and staffers in a revolutionary new co-work model. (Entrepreneur)
6. Teaching giants to act small: Startups stay lean in order to survive on a budget. This leads to hyper-efficiency, hard work and constant self-examination — lessons that could serve big government and big business alike. (Information Week)
7. Women on top: Although still sparse, women at the top are making big waves. There are more women in senior positions at successful startups than at unsuccessful ones, according to a VentureSource survey. (Bloomberg Businessweek)
8. The race for tech’s second place: When it comes to tech VC funding, New York and Massachusetts have been vying for the No. 2 slot for years. But with neither state able to brag a $5 billion-plus tech company in the last ten years the question has to be asked, why? (Fortune)
9. Picking your startup city: Evan Burfield, president of Startup D.C., talks about building an explosive entrepreneurial economy on Capitol Hill. His recipe? Focus on what the area already has to offer. (The Wall Street Journal)
10. California boom town USA? The Golden State reported that the rate of small business sales reached a four year high in 2012, while sales in San Francisco dropped 21 percent from last year. What gives? Maybe now’s the time to hold your cards.
