Matt Harding’s Peripatetic Dance Videos Earn Him Internet Fame

A Private Dance? Four Million Web Fans Say No | NYTimes.com

"In many ways “Dancing” is an almost perfect piece of Internet art: it’s short, pleasingly weird and so minimal in its content that it’s open to a multitude of interpretations. It could be a little commercial for one-world feel-goodism. It could be an allegory of American foreign policy: a bumptious foreigner turning up all over the world and answering just to his own inner music. Or it could be about nothing at all — just a guy dancing."

Silicon Valley VC confidence index falls to new low

Mark Cannice | The Industry Standard

"It will come as no surprise to Industry Standard readers that VC confidence declined in Q2."

Venture capital remains dominated by white men

VALLEYWAG

"A National Venture Capital Association survey found that 88 percent of general partners — the people who can actually greenlight an investment at a firm — are white, and 86 percent are male."

The Economics of Software

Views on software from Bryan Cantrill's deck chair | The Observation Deck

"Software is like nothing else in the history of human endeavor:¹ unlike everything else we have ever built, software costs nothing to manufacture, and it never wears out. Yet these magical properties are arguably overshadowed by the ugly truth that software remains incredibly expensive to build"

Analyst predictions :)

Technobabble 2.0

Thinking Outside the Funding Box

Scott's Entrepreneurs Blog

By Scott Allen, About.com Guide to Entrepreneurs since 2002

"There are so many ways that you can get funding for your business. Explore all your options, and don't give up just because one or two approaches don't work."