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  UK tech start-ups 'suck', Silicon investor says - Telegraph 

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/11/19/bcnsilicon11.xml

  A team of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capitalists jetted into Oxford today with the news that the UK's technology industry "absolutely sucks". Get a life, but make it a second life Admittedly ... unlike California's Silicon Valley, our own Thames Valley cannot claim to house the likes of Google, Facebook or Yahoo! But it does boast Oxford, which – if we are talking big names – is a "sufficiently famous and quaint" draw for some US hotshots. So says Paul Graham, the co-founder of Y Combinator, a seed-stage venture firm that runs a bootcamp in Silicon Valley for budding young tech entrepreneurs. Mr Graham, who sold his own start-up, Viaweb, to Yahoo! in 1998, joined a gaggle of tech founders – such as LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman, and industry experts, including Google's head of special initiatives Chris Sacca – at Oxford's Said Business School today. The school is hosting its annual 'Silicon Valley comes to Oxford' forum on entrepreneurship and innovation. Mr Graham made his first i   [More...] [Less...]

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  Dave Cheong: Engineer to Entrepreneur 

  http://www.davecheong.com/

  Wow! I can’t believe it has been so long since I last posted on this blog. Rest assured, dear readers, I have not abandoned you. I’m as energetic as ever, but unfortunately the commitments of work has ... again gotten in the way of everything else. Including this blog, but most notably fun and leisure! A couple of months ago, I started at a new client side. Because the client is new, environment is different, technology and type of work unfamiliar, I’ve had to work extra hard to get things done with my usual tenacity and productivity. Although the road has been bumpy and steep, I’ve kept my head up and have persevered through the tough times. That’s all good, but I miss the fun times! So how do we make work fun? Well, you can do it like my friend , who at this very moment is running rampant about Sydney doing a massive treasure hunt! From what I read on this blog , the folks at Atlassian are having a great time on their ‘Cutlassian Pirate’ day - having dressed up as pirates, kicked out   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 19 September 2007, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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  Scientists ponder next 50 years of space exploration - ZDNet 

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  Tags: Stefanie Olsen , Aerospace , Universe , , Scientist , Frontier , Computer , Productivity PASADENA, Calif.--In the next 50 years of space exploration, scientists are hopeful that we will find other ... life in the universe. Weeks away from the 50th anniversary of space flight, a group of aerospace engineers, space entrepreneurs and astronauts met here Thursday at the California Institute of Technology to reflect on the past and discuss the coming 50 years of space exploration. The two-day conference, called 50 Years in Space, is marked by the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik on October 4, 1957. Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, astronaut and former U.S. senator, called that event an "intellectual earthquake" for science and the first trigger of interest in space. To be sure, the United States formed NASA in November of the following year; and in 1961, President John F. Kennedy promised that Americans would land on the moon by the end of the decade. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed the firs   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 21 September 2007, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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