There’s been a lot of talk lately about all kinds of accelerators and Y Combinator like set-ups in the Nordic and Baltic countries. Most recently Aalto Entrepreneurship Society announced that they are in the process of building their own ‘Y Combinator’, although this would be directed only to Aalto University, which really makes it a university incubator. Just as much there has been discussion on whether Seedcamp model or Y Combinator like model is the better one (Y Combinator leading th
In the wake of the Guardian's article on whether California is a failed state we're seeing a lot of other publications take up the same question, with varying results. Perhaps one of the most ridiculous and absurd attempts to discuss the issue was in TIME Magazine last week . The author, Michael Grunwald, claims California is thriving, that the California Dream is still alive, and that we should stop our whinery. The nut of the piece: Ignore the California whinery. It's still a drea
It isn’t often we make predictions at BlackBerry Cool but when we do, they generally come true . With the BlackBerry Storm2 on the way, we’ve been getting a lot of tips about content available for the device. It’s highly possible that the launch of themes in App World will coincide with the Storm2 launch, and users will be able to download a wide variety of themes, games and apps for the new device. The reason for opening themes to App World is probably due to the fact that RIM is banking
Someone recently asked me if I had a chapter in my book about hipsters and sports. I don’t, but I think a chapter could definitely be written about it. And I think it would be interesting. Hipsters like a lot of good things: good food, drink, clothes, music, movies, books, etc. By and large, they have fantastic taste. But for some reason, hipsters aren’t that wild about sports. It’s unclear exactly why sports (and I’m mainly talking about popular American sports) are so anathema to
Bleeding Cool has received a copy of the filed lawsuit against Jim Shooter by Valiant Entertainment, the company currently publishing hardcover collections of early Valiant Universe titles which have featured new stories written by Shooter. But his role in the company went a lot deeper, as the suit reveals. We discover that, unbenownst to the industry at large, Jim Shooter was Editor-In-Chief of Valiant Enterprises and an officer in the company from December 2008 until July 2009, with an out t
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