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...Entrepreneurs Allen's Blog www.allensblog.typepad.com Allen Morgan, managing director at Mayfield-a venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California-backer of Beatnik, PlanetOut, Tribe and Pluck -guides entrepreneurs on how to pitch ideas and get financing. The recent "10 Commandments" series on how to handle those critical meetings with VCs is a must-read...
...Technology Lifehacker www.lifehacker.com "Don't live to geek; geek to live." This site, one of the latest blogs from Gawker Media (backer of Wonkette, Fleshbot, Gizmodo and a slew of others, including our next pick), dispenses sound tech advice with the understanding that computers can be frustrating, time-sucking monsters that we can't do without. There's an invaluable set of links running down the right-hand side of the home page, covering spyware cleaners, spam filters, online photo sharing and more. For the fashion-tech report (Hello Kitty cell phones, desktop fondue) visit PopGadget...
...world's poorest countries, a deal worth more than $40 billion. At the summit in Gleneagles he will try to win other concessions. But why should the world help Africa at all? The simple answer, says Niall FitzGerald, chairman of British news agency Reuters and a passionate backer of a new deal for Africa, is morality. "The rich world has brought its gifts to Africa: first exploitation and then indifference," he said at the World Economic Forum's Africa summit in Cape Town earlier this month. "There is across the world a new awareness of the moral reprehensibility of what...
Summers has emerged as an outspoken backer of the officer training program since his arrival at Mass. Hall in 2001. But, last July, he said in a private meeting that he was “not prepared” to make the argument for ROTC space on campus, according to Baker...
Scientists, for their part, were singing a different tune. "It's a tremendous advance," says Paul Berg, a Nobel laureate from Stanford University and a major backer of California's independent stem-cell initiative. "The Koreans' work is incredibly impressive," says Stephen Minger, director of the stem-cell biology laboratory at King's College, London. "It is fantastic--a major, major breakthrough...