The News Review:
- Nathan Bomey: Tips from the pros on seeking VC investment
- Microsoft promises DF support by mid 2009
- Microsoft Surface Developer Seeks New Canvas
Nathan Bomey: Tips from the pros on seeking VC investment
mlive.com – May 22, 2008
A few tips on seeking investment:• Don’t expect to keep your audience for more than an hour during your first pitch to a venture capitalist. Their schedules are typically jam-packed and they have no problem walking out of your presentation if they get bored. • Prepare a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation of about 15 to 20 slides using text strategically but sparingly and leveraging statistical and graphical analyses to support your pitch. Strongly consider e-mailing this presentation to the investor ahead of time. • Send your business plan to the investor ahead of time “but don’t expect people to read it” Fachetti said. Remember investors are incredibly busy. Expect that they’ve skimmed your business plan but won’t remember details.
Microsoft promises DF support by mid 2009
Inquirer – May 22, 2008
The move which follows intense pressure from the European Commission willmake Word Excel and Powerpoint amongst others compatible with the likes of thepen Document Format (DF). The Commission which has already made Vole dig down the back of the sofa for$1. 42 billion in fines over its unfair practices has said that it “willinvestigate whether the announced support of DF in ffice leads to betterinteroperability and allows consumers to process and exchange their documentswith the software product of their choice. Yahoo News reports that Thomas Vinje a spokesman for the European Committeefor Interoperable Systems (ECIS) – a rabble of Vole-bating companies includingIBM Nokia and racle – said that Microsoft’s promises were seen as “steps inthe right direction” but that they were “not nearly enough… The move which follows intense pressure from the European Commission willmake Word Excel and Powerpoint amongst others compatible with the likes of thepen Document Format (DF). The Commission which has already made Vole dig down the back of the sofa for$1. 42 billion in fines over its unfair practices has said that it “willinvestigate whether the announced support of DF in ffice leads to betterinteroperability and allows consumers to process and exchange their documentswith the software product of their choice. Yahoo News reports that Thomas Vinje a spokesman for the European Committeefor Interoperable Systems (ECIS) – a rabble of Vole-bating companies includingIBM Nokia and racle – said that Microsoft’s promises were seen as “steps inthe right direction” but that they were “not nearly enough. “A closer look at their substance” he continued “suggests that Microsoft isstill playing for time to further consolidate its super-dominant position andthat continued anti-trust vigilance will be necessary.
Microsoft Surface Developer Seeks New Canvas
PC World – May 22, 2008
The idea is to train a camera down on a sheet of infrared laser light and then keep track of what it sees on the surface. Track the lasers on a flat-screen computer monitor and you’ve created something that feels remarkably like a touchscreen monitor. To the uninitiated Wilson’s LaserTouch software seems to work a lot like Surface… Because LaserTouch can work with screens that have a much higher resolution than Surface Wilson said it could be used by office workers if it’s ever brought to market. Using experimental presentation software developed by. The Microsoft researcher demonstrated LaserTouch at a Microsoft Research event held for media and researchers at the software vendor’s Mountain View California campus. This was actually LaserTouch’s second public outing. Wilson said that his software was also used to power the interactive whiteboard technology called Touch Wall that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates demonstrated last week at the company’s.