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Your favorite food truck owner, small business owner, and enterprising girl scout now have a new option when it comes to taking your credit card payment: PayPal Here. Announced Thursday at an event in San Francisco, PayPal Here is set to go head-to-head against mobile payment pioneer Square for part of the small business pie.

One of the things I'm most excited about working at GitHub is the opportunity to take our time and think through organization and process problems from first principle instead of blindly copying other companies or adopting status quo approaches developed in the last century.

Steve Blank is a retired serial entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in high technology companies and management. He is a Consulting Professor at Stanford in the Graduate School of Engineering STVP Program. Steve has been a founder or participant in eight Silicon Valley startups since 1978.

As the very Apple-like video above explains, the Square Register app plus Square's quarter-sized reader lets you process payments via cash, credit card and even by customer name. The app also lets you add items easily and create a favorites page for popular products.

ALEXANDRE ORRICO DE SÃO PAULO A partir de hoje, portadores dos telefones celulares C7, N9 e 701, todos fabricados pela Nokia, podem usá-los como carteiras virtuais no Brasil. É possível pagar contas em bares, restaurantes ou até mesmo transferir dinheiro entre duas pessoas. As transações financeiras, por enquanto, só funcionam entre os modelos citados.

Last year, we covered an ambitious collaborative R&D project called "Startup Genome," created by three young entrepreneurs, Bjoern Herrmann, Max Marmer, and Ertan Dogrultan. The goal of the ongoing project was (and is) to take a comprehensive, data-driven dive into what makes tech startups successful - and not so successful.