Notes on Leadership: Be Like Steve Jobs, . . . And Bill Campbell, And Andy Grove

Editor’s note : When venture capitalists invest in early stage startups, more than anything else they are investing in the founders of the company and their ability to lead their employees through the most improbable set of circumstances to take an idea from a germ to a real and profitable business. In this guest post, Ben Horowitz of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz explains the leadership traits he and his co-founder Marc Andreessen look for before they invest in a startup

Lenovo’s G560 and G460 laptops now available to order

Good news, laptop hunters! No, not those laptop hunters ….

Europe’s Zappos.com Spartoo Raises $17.4 Million

Spartoo.com, the European version of Zappos.com, has closed a $17.4 million Series B round of funding round led by Highland Capital Partners and Endeavour Vision with A Plus Finance and CM-CIC Capital Privé participating. This brings the online shoe retailer’s total funding to $25.4 million.

Ultra-cheap Archos 1 Vision goes on sale across the pond

Need a relatively respectable DAP to shove in your next pair of gym shorts, huh? Yeah, we’ve all been there.

Microsoft group manager: Windows 7 borrowing ‘Mac look and feel’

We’ll be honest — before today, we had never heard of Simon Aldous, but it sure seems as if he’s trying hard to get his name out there. Mr. Aldous, a group manager at Microsoft, recently sat down for a rather lengthy talk with PCR .

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