News
- GoodData, a Czech-founded business metrics company, closed a third round of funding, collecting $25 million to accelerate growth. Read on Venture Beat
- SellBox, a startup from the Poznan incubator Huge Thing, has launched its service, a way to sell your digital content through simple link-sharing, even though they are still “in incubation”. Read on Accelerator Gazette
- The Founder Institute, a US-based startup accelerator, has set its sights on Europe. Read on TNW
- GameFounders, an Estonian accelerator specifically for games, received 122 applications for the first round of the program. Read on Venture Beat
- GameFounders’ creative idea didn’t stay alone for too long. A new game accelerator just got announced in Berlin by the game company Hitfox. Read on Venture Village
- A new Bulgarian accelerator, LaunchHub, announced 9 teams for its first season. Read on Netocratic
Media Love
- My French is only good enough to tell that this article is about CEE startups. Hopefully they said nice things. Read on Le Journal du Net
- Venture Village put together a little hall of
f(sh)ame of Russian websites flattering German startups with imitation. Read on Venture Village
Beach Reading
- If you’re Euro enough to be enjoying a nice long vacation, perhaps you need something longer to read. The Atlantic has put together a list of top 50 technology reads, collecting some of the greatest works from fields like science & technology, media studies, sociology, and more. My favorites on the list are Edward Tufte’s Envisioning Information, Don Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things, Eric Raymond’s The Cathedral and The Bazaar, Fred Turner’s From Counterculture to Cyberculture, and anything by Edward Burtynsky. Okay, and Snowcrash, too. I know what I’m reading for the rest of the summer… Check out the rest of The Atlantic Tech Canon.