Next week a startup focused on “photos” that a great team of people that i’ve put together has been working on for quite some time will launch at Chris Shipley’s (of Demo fame), Innovate!Europe conference – selected as one of the few European startups getting the chance to demo. Really proud to launch at such a venue – but also humble of all the work we’ve got aheads of us.
Will blog when we launch our preview site…

Bayosphere. Dan Gillmor launches his grassroots media startup.

Bnoopy: Oh, the difference a decade makes
Joe Kraus, co-founder of Excite, gives some perspective on what has changed since he co-founded Excite about ten years ago.
Cost Difference #1. The tools to develop software cost nothing now.
Cost Difference #2. Hardware costs are approaching 0.
Cost Difference #3. Start-ups have access to global labor.

Blogger co-creator Meg Hourihan is turning from geek to chef
Follow your heart – amen.

myagent: Virk.dk skifter deres direktør ud [danish]
Lars has the breaking news – a change in management of the virk.dk portal only a couple of months after it was launched.

Sense Worldwide
Interesting network concept.

Those swedes, those swedes
Was at the opening of Minc – the Malmö Incubator – friday afternoon and evening. Once again the swedes are pulling ahead showing an almost scary professionalism in creating the right enviroment for innovation.
The Minc incubator is a very stylish 2,500 square meter renovated building in the harbour area – just at 4 minute walk away from Malmø central station.
Funded by the municipality of Malmø with 35 million swedish kr. the place offers working places plus consulting/coaching for a fee of 1,500 swedish kr. per month per …

Forbes Entrepreneurship: The Psychology Of Success

“Good ideas are a dime a dozen. Good people are rare”.
“If you’re interested in building a business to make money, forget it. You won’t. If you’re interested in building a business to make a contribution to society, then let’s talk.”
Arthur Rock. Co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and the first investor in Intel and Apple.

Guy Kawasaki interviewed by San Francisco Business Times
Interviewer: There’s a sense today that a few years ago all you had to do was sit down for a cup of coffee with a VC, jot down a business plan on the back of an envelope and you could walk out with a check for $30 million. Is that a myth?
Kawasaki: Well, it wasn’t that easy. You also had to boot PowerPoint, but that’s it. (laughs)
You gotta give it to the evangelist of evangelists…