If you happened to pass through AOL’s offices in Palo Alto last November or December, you might have had your first run-in with the elusive creature “founder squatter.” Say what? Following in the ...

THE CLACO CONNECTION: Eric Simons has the true grit of an entrepreneur. He quit school to work on his original edtech idea, ClassConnect, and became part of the first cohort at Imagine K12.

Eric Simons won Web-wide notoriety in May, when officials at AOL’s Palo Alto campus discovered the young entrepreneur had been living there to save cash while getting his startup off the ground. But ...

Anuli is a writer and new-media enthusiast who dreams about becoming the sixth Spice Girl. Until then follow her on Google+ or Twitter: @akaanuli. This article is the second in a series of three ...

If ever there was someone with an entrepreneurial spirit, it's Eric Simons, known to many as the AOL squatter. As CNET was first to report, Simons spent two months last year living surreptitiously at ...