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HackFwd Blog: Europe Embraces Entrepreneurship

Of all the factors mentioned here, labour market mobility seems to remain a major obstacle for Europe, ironically of course in the tech market with the much trumpeted advantages of remote working! The truth is though that whilst Skype is also great…co-working spaces are as popular and as effective as ever.

hackfwd:

Historically, Europe has been viewed as the quieter sibling in the international family of entrepreneurship. Commentators have pointed to a higher degree of risk aversion, the difficulties of raising finance, and even differences between European education systems and the education systems in the…

fred-wilson:

Joel Spolsky’s org chart from this guest post he did for me today. I love the marketing organization!

Perfect…but *everyone* is in marketing now…plus it’s missing the Chairman at the veeeerrrryyy bottom….and oh!…the VC’s below that! ;-)

fred-wilson:

Joel Spolsky’s org chart from this guest post he did for me today. I love the marketing organization!

Perfect…but *everyone* is in marketing now…plus it’s missing the Chairman at the veeeerrrryyy bottom….and oh!…the VC’s below that! ;-)

Payments companies go bananas

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jaymug:

Original Apple iPhone 1983 - designer Hartmut Esslinger, the same guy who made the Apple IIc computer, came up with this phone/tablet prototype.
More pictures of the original iPhone here.

jaymug:

Original Apple iPhone 1983 - designer Hartmut Esslinger, the same guy who made the Apple IIc computer, came up with this phone/tablet prototype.

More pictures of the original iPhone here.

(via richard)

What it takes

To make it big in technology…you got to pick the right partners, time the market…and get 1001 other things bang on right. Simples