Recently I’m involved in advising entrepreneurs how to prepare to get funding for their projects and business ideas. Well this is not a new subject at all. A lot has been written on it. Still – in order to get a clear idea of how you need to communicate your business idea I walk along the mindmap below. It serves like a breviary.

I found these lately:

• FuseCal – putting an end to syncing dilemmas?
  Tags:calendar productivity
• inline posts (in pages) 4 wordpress – very cool plugin!
  Tags:wordpress plugins
• Drop.io: Simple Private Exchange – really useful!
  Tags:storage filesharing
• Agree2 – audit trail for changes/edits during negotiating a contract or agreement.
  Tags:contract-management
• Issuu – You Publish –
  Tags:pdf
• GrandCentral About GrandCentral – “…

Please read the rest of that rant. It’s worth it!

2008: VCs and startups get real across Europe: [...]“Chatting to some frustrated startups in Barcelona and Berlin recently, one still got the impression that VC firms, even in some major European hubs, tend to think not in global, US or broad European terms, but in local terms.