Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Uzi Shmilovici, CEO and founder of Future Simple , the company behind Base CRM . In 1919, Walter Gropius founded in Germany the Bauhaus , a school for engineering and design, and gave birth to one of the most important and influential design movements in history: Modernism.

The dawn of subscription commerce has spawned a number of startups in technology including BirchBox, Kiwi Crate, Babbaco and many others.

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Tyler Rooney , a co-founder of online portfolio startup, 4ormat . It’s not every day that you start a business and quickly decide to say “no” to 70 percent of your potential customers.

Let’s face it — there are too many camera and photo sharing apps out there, and not enough time in the day to give each one of them a try. If you’ve been mulling over which camera app deserves your love and affection, or just have no earthly idea where to start, take a gander below at some of your best options for shooting and sharing your life on the go.

Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Doug Pepper , who is a General Partner at InterWest Partners where he invests in SaaS, mobile, consumer internet and digital media companies.

Happy April 1st, Everybody! It’s that very special time of year — the day when tech companies break out their clown shoes to make their annual attempt at being funny.

Editor’s Note: Richard Fontaine , a Senior Advisor at the Center for a New American Security, is the co-author of Internet Freedom: A Foreign Policy Imperative in the Digital Age . Follow him @rhfontaine .

Editor’s Note: Alexander Haislip is a marketing executive with cloud-based server automation startup ScaleXtreme and the author of Essentials of Venture Capital . Follow him on Twitter @ahaislip . “Portfolio” is a word that Silicon Valley loves.

Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Nir Eyal , a founder of two acquired startups and an advisor to several Bay Area companies and incubators. Nir blogs at NirAndFar.com It’s time to abolish the reference check. The unpleasant process of calling up a job applicant’s former boss to gab about the candidate’s pluses and “deltas” is just silly.

After a highly visible meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook, Foxconn’s founder Terry Gou announced plans to open a sprawling Foxconn factory in Guthrie Center , Iowa, essentially replacing the approximately 2,000 residents of that small town with workers from in and around Iowa.