More than twice as many small businesses are using cloud solutions now in comparison to the second half of 2010, and the numbers continue to increase. So why are so many SMBs turning to the cloud and why haven’t all businesses transitioned yet.

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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Text of Steve Jobs Commencement address (2005)

New Security Warning for Facebook

Posted on Mar 30, 2011 in Security, Security Alert, Social Media |

 

For information on how to secure your Facebook information, please read the full article.

Amplify’d from www.cio.com

Facebook Quick Tip: Enable Encryption to Avoid New Privacy Glitch Some Facebook traffic this week took a misguided trip from AT&T servers through China and South Korea, exposing some user data. To protect yourself against such glitches, here’s how to enable Facebook’s HTTPS feature. Read more at www.cio.com

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A Great Idea

Rainmaking in Denmark and Okuri Ventures in Spain are joining forces to create the first accelerator based in several European cities, empowering entrepreneurs to leverage on local resources to access larger markets. The 3 month program in Madrid (Summer 2011) and Copenhagen (Fall 2011) will soon be followed by Berlin (Winter 2012) and London (Spring 2012). And that is only the beginning.

Why are we aiming to succeed where even the mighty European Union has failed? To put it in simple terms, some things just need to be done.

We want Startupbootcamp teams from all over the world to choose to attend any of the cities we are in, experiencing a truly European network. We want entrepreneurs to think about Europe as a single market, not a fragmented ecosystem. We want Startupbootcamp mentors to collaborate with teams all around Europe. We want investors to meet and invest in any startup in the European Startupbootcamp constellation. In our vision, there are no more countries and ecosystems, but a single connected Europe entrepreneurship space.

The 3 month program, where teams will receive 4000€ per team member and work in the free office space at Startupbootcamp sites, is based on the support of over 150 mentors that share their experience buidling truly amazing businesses. Each city has its own batch of local mentors plus a batch of international shared mentors across all programs. We truly believe in one Europe and that means that our people will be everywhere. Startups will have access to not only the whole Europe team, but to all the mentors and investors in our network which covers the whole world, US, EMEA, Latam and Asia.

So:

• Want to kickstart your startup in a true international fashion?
• Want to meet peers from all over the world?
• Summer in partyland-sexy-Spain?
• Fall in beautiful-Copenhagen?

Stay tuned, Madrid applications open on February 2011 and the deadline is May 15th 2011. The Copenhagen edition closes applications July 15th 2011.

Are you an investor?

• Passionate about finding new startups?
• Want to help the rising European entrepreneur scene?
• Want to attend the Startup Bootcamp  investor day?

Related articles

• StartupBootcamp, the First true Europen Startup Accelerator is out (tetuanvalley.com)
• Startupbootcamp launches in Madrid. Next up: London and Berlin. (eu.techcrunch.com)
• Danish accelerator Startupbootcamp goes pan-European (theequitykicker.com)
• Accelerator and Seed Programs for Tech Startups in Europe 2011 (awassoc.com)

This article originally appeared on the new.startupfocus.eu

Tetuan Valley is devoted to create a true Entrepreneurial community in Spain with links to the rest of the World. Each year it hosts a Startup School, an accelerator program with Okuri Ventures and provides the Tetuan Valley University, a startup advisory through an array of international mentors.

The Tetuan Valley Startup School?

It’s an experience that tries to bring to life many of the values of our manifesto. The Tetuan Valley Startup school is a 6 week program for young wanna-be-entrepreneurs who want to experience what is it like to build a startup.

What is exactly this program about?

The course is a 6 week period of training and working on the implementation of an idea. Teams will choose an idea the first day and their goal will be to release a prototype by the end of the program. During each week, we will meet with all teams at our offices in what we like to call, the pizza night. During the weekly meetings, our staff will give a small lecture about how to build startups. These lectures WON’T be technical in nature, but philosophical. Our goal is to communicate principles, not technical knowledge. After the lectures each team will present their achievements of the week, to us and the rest of the teams. They will also review their pitch, to prioritize developments, focus and improve communication skills.

Finally each pizza night we’ll invite a mentor to give advice for 20min. Both, group and personal coaching will be available after that if desired. By the end of the 6 weeks we’ll do a big presentation day where everyone will show their final prototype. We will then choose the best teams and projects as winners and their project will be forwarded to international investors for analysis.

Who is this program for?

This program is oriented nearly exclusively to young people who haven’t experienced a startup. People who don’t know what a startup is, who don’t know that there is life beyond the consultant world or being a government employee. People that are ambitious but don’t know how to project those feelings.

Want to know more?

A few tales from Tetuan Valley

View more presentations from Luis Rivera Gurrea-Nozaleda.

The Deadline for the Tetuan Valley Startup School Spring 2011 in Madrid and Barcelona (April/May) is the 1st of April 2011. For further details visit http://tetuanvalley.com/

Related articles

• NDRC hosting Ireland’s 2nd Start-up Weekend between 25th – 27th February (new.startupfocus.eu)
• Start-Up 100: Could Europe build a Y Combinator? (telegraph.co.uk)
• StartupBootcamp, the First true Europen Startup Accelerator is out (tetuanvalley.com)
• Startupbootcamp launches in Madrid. Next up: London and Berlin. (eu.techcrunch.com)

This post originally appeared on the new.startupfocus.eu