Arvin Ahmadi

Hip today, mainstream tomorrow

Tech companies can start out hipster but become part of pop culture in the blink of an eye.

Google yourself

Everyone can curate their own online brand.

Professional networking

LinkedIn is a useful resource for making connections that we often overlook.

Bigger is better

Entrepreneurs and tech developers should think big; there's plenty of room in both industries.

Wired classrooms

Siri-usly, classrooms need to be more technologically innovative.

The uninhibited entrepreneur

Programmers and founders of tech start-up companies have a bright future across the country.

Friend Facebook

Our lives are online now, and we should use social media to the fullest.

At second annual TEDx conference, 'ideas' is buzzword

“It’s important to make sure that people consider the mashup of possibilities,” Steve McGill, a second-year Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania, said. “Take something innovative from one area of science and engineering and apply it to something else.”

Columbia tops other Ivies in endowment gains for 2011

The University's $7.8 billion endowment has returned 23.6 percent for this fiscal year, surpassing gains made by Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.