links for 2007-09-29

• VentureBeat » Starting a company? Your value could be pretty high…

  If you’re starting a company and raising a first round of capital, you’re raising money on the most favorable terms since the end of the last bubble.

  (tags: VC venture funding startup)

• BeyondVC: Too many chiefs, not enough indians

  There are obviously all different types of companies with different funding needs but the ones that have stood out negatively for me are the startups that come in with a pre-baked senior management team and no product.

  (tags: startup employees structure)

• Organizing Principles by jb

  We are globally demolishing creativity according to Tony Buzan (father of mindmapping). According to him we are teaching uncreativity. We should be teaching ‘how to learn’ and not ‘what to learn’.

  (tags: learning creativity crisis video Tony Buzan mindmapping)

• Don’t Sell Without Reading This First

  According to the brokerage Charles Schwab, an investor who sells a stock with a short-term gain (a stock held less than 366 days) must find a new stock that outperforms the sold stock by 21.2% just to offset the taxes.

  (tags: stock selling taxes capitalgains)

• IPhone: Adobe Photoshop for iPhone Is as Stupid as It Sounds – Gizmodo

  This is hilarious and very well done.

  (tags: iPhone Adobe Photoshop CS3 JohnnyL)

• YouTube – Texas Legislation

  Amazing

  (tags: politics video corruption government ethics democracy hypocrisy Texas)