Vinod Khosla, founder of venture capital firm Khosla Ventures, spoke at Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Week Tuesday. He told entrepreneurs to break rules, not be afraid of being unreasonable and embrace failure.
Menlo Park did not renew the contract of a lobbyist representing the city’s interests the controversial high-speed rail debate at the state legislature. Officials have not named a replacement.
Silicon Valley wireless service provider iPass Inc. chalked up more losses in the fourth quarter than the third, due to a significant slowdown of active users on its new mobile devices during the holiday season in December.
When voters elected East Palo Alto’s first majority-Latino City Council in 2008, the political landscape finally caught up to a demographic shift that had happened a decade earlier. But those gains have yet to solidify.
Menlo Park is counting on a proposed hotel tax increase to fix the city budget, but opponents say it will only hurt the economy.