Saturday, July 31, 2010

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New EU Rules Could Kill Off VC, Screw Startups – Let’s Stop Them

The European Union’s proposed Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive sounds relatively innocuous. But its impact could have far reaching consequences for Europe's emerging startup tech scene, imposing higher costs, red tape and put off most institutional investors from investing in VC funds. Read more »

Santa Clara County Police Now Looking Into the Lost iPhone Prototype

About eighteen seconds after word got out that a prototype of Apple's next iPhone had been lost, found, and then subsequently sold to Gizmodo (for somewhere around $5,000), commenters and pundits everywhere started asking: is all this legal? Read more »

SupersonicAds Sets Out To Help European Publishers Monetize Virtual Currency

Arik Czerniak, founder and former CEO of social video sharing site Metacafe, has co-founded a new company with a couple of people he used to work with at Metacafe, namely former VP of Sales Gil Shoham and l Read more »

Time is Money: a review of the Meeting Cost Calculator and Clock

Many people lament about how unproductive the traditional "business meeting" is. One or more participants feel the need to assert their opinion at great length, or simply regurgitate the same information multiple times. Most of us sit passively through these time-wasting meetings because ... well ... I don't know! But now you can have the facts on your side when you want to remind people that any particular meeting is wasting time. Read more »