The startup graveyard is full of companies that enjoyed initial success -- call it beginner's luck. But often, good news can become the worst enemy of a growing company. We call this paradox "the plateau effect.“ Everything we do in life follows this familiar pattern -- love, playing music, learning how to swim. We succeed, then we get stuck. It's obvious to anyone who's sat through an economics c

Fans of Iron Man, take notice: A group of students at the Royal College of Art in London have created two masks that can give you superhuman sight and hearing. The first prototype covers the wearer's ears, mouth and nose and uses a directional microphone to give him the ability to hear an isolated sound in a noisy environment. For example, you could target a person in a crowd and clearly hear his

YouTube Launching Paid Subscriptions to Some Video Channels: Report YouTube is set to launch a paid subscription model for its specialist video channels as early as this week, according to a report. The move, which has been in development for months, aims to help channels finance a wider range of content such as television shows and films, and will serve as another source of revenue, according to

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Cracks Jokes During Commencement Speech "When I was your age we didn't have the Internet in our pants," Twitter CEO Dick Costolo joked, flaunting his phone, at his University of Michigan commencement speech. "We didn't even have the Internet not in our pants -- that's how bad it was." That was among Costolo's lines that incited UM's 2013 graduating class to break out in la