Just Say No: VC terms that can really hurt - Venture Hacks
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Thanks to Atlas Venture for supporting Venture Hacks this month. This post is by Fred Destin, one of Atlas’ general partners. If you like it, check out Fred’s blog and tweets @fdestin
“focus on a few of the clauses that entrepreneurs should absolutely avoid; the wrong tradeoffs which later expose them to really “losing” their company.”
Video: Jack Dorsey Talks Square And I Buy Him Coffee With It
by MG Siegler |TechCrunch
“As first reported over the summer, Twitter creator Jack Dorsey has a new project…Square, a hardware/software combination for mobile devices (launching first for the iPhone/iPod touch) that allows vendors to easily accept and process credit card payments.”
Jonathan Zittrain: “Minds for Sale” | The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
A new range of projects is making the application of human brainpower as purchasable over the cloud as additional server rackspace. Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, dives into the ethics and issues surrounding cloud labor in this talk
Identifying Anticancer Immune Cells | Technology Review
By Lauren Gravitz
A new biosensor can spot potent cancer-killing immune cells.
The Open Source House Project, Sharing Eco-Affordable Housing Solutions | TreeHugger
architect Vincent van der Meulen together with Enviu, the Dutch organisation behind the Sustainable Dance Club and the Hybrid Tuk Tuk project, have just launched the Open Source House project
The Happy Planet Charter sets out the principles and targets we need to achieve sustainable well-being.
Read the new report, presenting the results from the second global compilation of the Happy Planet Index.
A Virtual Stonehenge Landscape on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
This short film shows the landscape around Stonehenge as recorded by LIDAR survey (airborne 3D scanning). Millions of measurements were taken across the landscape, and here they have been turned into a ‘solid’ computer model to show how well the archaeology is recorded by this method
The Lean Startup Circle is a Google discussion group (anyone can join) centered on Customer Development/Lean Startup strategy, tactics and implementation.
Click here for the slides to follow with the video.
Inside Fermi’s graphics architecture | The Tech Report
Insider info and careful speculation take us deep into Nvidia’s next GPU
“This industry is now mostly up and walking, after being born little more than a few years ago. We’ve seen GPU computing shed tears, start teething, and take its first baby steps”
Top 10 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Writing a Business Plan
Published on Inc.com (http://www2.inc.com)
There are currently 3 major players in the space: Zong, Boku and Obopay. Each works with many carriers across the globe, have millions of users, and constantly integrate with more games, stores, and social networks to offer users an alternative to credit cards and PayPal.
Old Strategies No Longer Work! | AlwaysOn
This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series Social Media Directions
“Markets have dramatically changed and thus old strategic thinking and related methods are no longer relevant to the market. They simply don’t work anymore.”
