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Another bunch of great startup and venture capital articles found around the web..

• Working with VCs part 1 : its not summer camp (nor should it be)

on Leaving The Flock

• The Capital Raising Ladder

on Read Write Start

• 14 startup pitfalls to avoid
• Shocker: Study shows VCs plan to invest in fewer companies

on Venture Beat

• The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online

on Wired

• The Five Most promising Dutch Startups

on Tiburon TV

• There is only one currency: it’s called value

on Khuram

• Ten Commandments from Entrepreneurial ‘Evangelist’ Guy Kawasaki

on Knowledge@Wharton

• The Start-up Guru: Y Combinator’s Paul Graham

on Inc.

Bonus: List of Entrepreneurs on Twitter

Bonus video: The real time investor

Italian startup Passpack is an online password manager. A web application to securely store your passwords.
With the release of Passpack 7 they introduced a lot of new cool features such as automatic saving, search, tags & filter. But the most important has surely been secure password sharing: you can now send your passwords to other passpack users without having to email or IM them.
A few days ago another great feature was released: bulk actions. You can now delete or share multiple entries with one click, awesome. But not enough..

At TechGarage I met Francesco Sullo, the founder of Passpack and he gave me a scoop: get ready for Minipacks.
As of now you can share passwords only with passpack users, so if they are not registered you actually have to call, email, IM them and get them to sign up. But what if someone is using other softwares?
With this release (due in one week approximately) you will be able to send out minipacks, completely secure and encrypted files containing your passwords, if the person you are sending the minipack to is not registered on passpack he will be able to import the file in any software after having inserted a password (you will have to call or email for this).
I think this is such a huge feature, it definitely needed a post. Can’t wait to see it live.

Here is a video if you’ve never heard of passpack

High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) has invested EUR 500,000 into software prototyping company RapidRabb GmbH in a first round of financing.

The startup, a finalist at the Red Herring 100 Europe Award, provides an interesting product that gives business and developers the tools for rapid prototyping of software interfaces and easy-to-lear graphic specifications, early-stage testing and efficient communication.

RapidRabb was founded in 2008 by a young group of designers, developers and economists. It is based in Berlin, Germany.

The High-Tech Gruunderfonds invests venture capital in young and promising technology companies who turn scientific results into economic success, they have a volume of about 272 Milion Euros available. Investors of this Public Private Partnership are the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology of Germany, the KfW Bankengruppe, as well as the combinations BASF, Deutsche Telekom, Siemens, Robert Bosch, Daimler, and Carl Zeiss.

Starting today each week you will find this post: Startup Weekend Reading. Every friday I will post links to the best articles on entrepreneurship and startups that I found during the week, so you don’t have to smuggle around hundreds of twitter feeds and guess all the tinyurls.

Here we go.

• What Venture Capital Can Learn from Private Equity

on BusinessWeek

• Customer Development Process & Sales Learning Cycle ( SLC )

on Nrao

• Advertising Yourself: Building a Personal Brand through Social Networks

on Knowledge@Wharton

• Why Iteration is a Powerful Way to Build a Startup
• Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup?

on The Netsetter

• Startups: Check Your Leadership Style

on Startup Professionals

• Top Quotes To Inspire Entrepreneurs

on IncomeDiary

Plus: McKinsey & Co. Report: Clearing the Air on Cloud Computing PDF. (Right Click, Save as).

Feel free to share links in the comments.

Here is a summary of the most important upcoming events in Europe.
We will try to cover as much of them as possibile.

• April 20th: Mini Seedcamp London.

http://seedcamp.com/pages/london09


• April 21st: Geek’n'Rolla London.

http://www.amiando.com/geeknrolla.html


• April 24th: Nonic Bilbao.

http://nonickconference.com/


• April 28th: Amazon Web Services Startup-Tour London.

http://aws.amazon.com/startupproject/


• April 28th-30th: Internet World London.

http://www.internetworld.co.uk/


• April 29th: Working Capital Camp Catania.

http://www.workingcapitalcamp.com/catania


• May 5th: Next09 Hamburg.

http://www.next-conference.com/next09/


• May 19th – 20th: European Venture Market Berlin.

http://www.europeanventuremarket.com/


• May 22nd: TechGarage Rome.

http://www.techgarage.eu/


• May 27th: TechCrunch Nordic Talk Stockholm.

http://www.amiando.com/tcstockholm.html


• June 23rd: Fuel09 London.

http://events.carsonified.com/fuel/2009/london/

This is E, an Amsterdam startup that launched today at The Next Web. The company promises to join all your online profiles and let you share them with any internet-capable mobile phone or using a specific usb-dongle called Connector, thus replacing business cards.

With E, you can create many different virtual cards and share the most appropriate depending on the situation you’re in (party, conference, meeting). Not only will you get all of the person’s details without having to keep  their business card, but if they change their email address or phone number the changes will get automatically pushed to your contact information.