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 person in the startup.
The VD/CEO is Anders Sjöstedt of old yalayala fame. Yalayala was involved in creating Unitedspaces which unfortunately didn’t do too well - but Anders has learned the lessons and created a magnificient place building on his experience.
Nice example of collaboration between the goverment and the private sector - is Copenhagen ever gonna wake up?
[Full coverage with 17 pictures on the mblog]
“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…