UpstartToday: Branson on upstarts; Measuring Marissa Mayer; & Simpsons mortality

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July 26, 2013

Richard Branson on what upstarts need to win: Bravery The man behind the Virgin empire is full of wisdom. A look at some of his recent inspirational comments, especially one about our favorite breed of entrepreneur. Identity crisis for Zynga After a painful drop in revenue, and news that its gambling experiment was dead in the water, it looks Zynga might return to more of the same (in a totally different way). Measuring report-to-work success Research is piling up against the ban of work-from-home privileges for Yahoo employees. So how will Marissa Mayer measure and prove the success of her plan? Simpsons co-creator to leave fortune to charity, gets real about death The Simpsons co-creator Sam Simon is giving his fortune to charity, but it's not the only thing we can learn from him. MORE ON ENTREPRENEURS AND INNOVATION Damn the Series A crunch, full seed ahead How Retrace got its name and avoided sounding like a creepy government program SLIDESHOW: The most interesting VC investments of the week VIDEO: This family spent $100K on Beanie Babies. It didn't work out. LearnVest Planning gets Amex backing, plans to be everywhere Gin & Juice gave Dr. Dre his sound and Beats is amplifying it This company quit email and it's still in business Back 9 links: Apple should be very worried about Google Chromecast

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