Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Uzi Shmilovici, CEO and founder of Future Simple , the company behind Base CRM . I used Path twice. None of the people that I know are using Path.

Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Derek Andersen , who is the founder of StartupGrind and Vaporware Labs , and is a former entertainment development manager at Electronic Arts.

Editor’s Note: Alexander Haislip is a marketing executive with cloud-based server automation startup ScaleXtreme and the author of Essentials of Venture Capital .

Editor’s Note: Markus Barnikel joined carpooling.com as CEO in 2011, in order to expand into new countries and make carpooling a convenient transportation option for all. Barnikel has also held various leadership positions at Yahoo, including as Chief Sales Officer in Australia and Global Director of Sales in the U.S.

Editor’s Note: Leonid (“Lenny”) Kravets is a patent attorney at Panitch, Schwarze, Belisario and Nadel , LLP in Philadelphia, PA. Lenny focuses his practice on patent prosecution and intellectual property transactions in computer-related technology areas. He specializes in developing IP strategy for young technology companies and blogs on this topic at StartupsIP

Editor’s Note: Alexey Komissarouk is a CS senior at the University of Pennsylvania and founder of the PennApps Hackathon . This article is based on an earlier talk to the Wharton MBA Entrepreneurship Club. “How many of you want to start a company?” David Tisch asked

Short Version Guys, this one’s such a no brainer that I shouldn’t even have to lay it all out. But I will.

Editor’s note: Jon Sterling has been in the real estate business since 2002. Follow him on Twitter @mistersterling . The residential real estate bubble isn’t the only real estate challenge facing startups in Silicon Valley

Eric Elia ( @ericelia ) is a member of the founding team at Brightcove, and is currently the vice president of TV solutions. Brightcove, a video and app solutions provider, went public on Feb. 17 on the NASDAQ and now trades with a market cap of $509.3 million.

Editor’s note: Aaron Levie is CEO of Box .