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flavorpill - nice example of a weekly email cityguide format.

Scott Kirsner: Silence is a virtue - Tech start-ups of the late ’90s couldn’t make enough noise about how wonderful their technology was. Now they can’t stay quiet enough. “You want to build a company quietly and in a focused manner. That way, when customers start buying technology again, you’re there, and you’re there without six other copycats along with you.”

BusinessWeek: What’s the Buzz at the Innovation Factory? - Walter Bender, executive director of MIT’s Media Lab, discusses how the demands on research change during tough economic times

Danish venture capital posterboy’s 2M goes down. An amazing learning in what happens when you start believing your own hype, you get stuck in a severe reality distortion field, nepotism and incompetent management, why venture capitalists never should be publicly traded and most of all amazingly bad management.
Once upon a time this was a company i respected for their technology focused investments and amazing performance - before they came out as the biggest clueless dotcom’s of this decade in Denmark…
When their story one day gets written up it’ll be a textbook on what not to do for all entrepreneurs…

Scott Heifermann’s new startup MEETUP has just launched. Interesting concept - if only they would make it more viral by making it easier to create local meeting venues. User Interface and Communication Design by the always great 37Signals.

:: Innovation Lab - Preben Mejer’s pet project of a small-scale mit media lab.

Allegro Ventures - new seed fund co-founded by Pattie Maes of MIT Medialab, Firefly, etc. fame.

Managing Information Warfare with The WarRoom - mission: all the companies that i’m involved in should have a war/operations room…

HBS Working Knowledge: A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

Lead User Research