Steve Jurvetson and the search for disruption
CNetNews.com has a great interview on “the constant search for disruption” with Steve Jurvetson, managing director of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson in Menlo Park, California. AP reports that [...]
Kauffman Foundation releases study on entrepreneurship
Inc.com points its readers to an interesting Kauffman Foundation study on entrepreneurship. The publication writes that “[a]mong more than 500 U.S. technology firms recently analyzed by [Kauffman], a Kansas City, [...]
LinkedIn hopes VCs will call
CNetNews.com writes that “[o]n Monday, reports surfaced that business social network LinkedIn is likely looking to raise a round of venture capital (rather than find a corporate parent). TechCrunch reports [...]
What is the cyber-security Manhattan project?
According to Wired, “[t]he government's new cyber-security ‘Manhattan Project’ is so secretive that a key Senate oversight panel has been reduced to writing a letter to beg for answers to [...]
London Calling – In English, French and German
The European Commission recently released figures on EU patent protection which show that 20 years’ protection in Europe is on average nearly nine times more expensive than in Japan or [...]
The fourth decade of spam begins on Saturday
AFP points out that “[t]his week, the world will mark an anniversary that has changed the face -- and other anatomical regions -- of email inboxes everywhere: the first known [...]