Pirate Bay Founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg is to be tried starting tomorrow in Sweden, after his indictment last month for computer hacking and fraud. Wikileaks has released several documents related to his detention and the associated charges. From the summary of this material: “This material includes inter alia the interrogations with GSW and his co-accused, internal correspondence from the Swedish Foreign Minister and the Swedish embassy in Cambodia, damage assessment reports by the companies and the authorities concerned, and correspondence between GSW and Kristina Svartholm and the Swedish prison authorities. The material is formally public, but the Swedish prosecution authority has refused to provide the documents in digital format. Photocopying this volume of paper costs around £350.” Notable is the refusal of Warg’s request to obtain a graphing calculator while in prison.
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As a fourth generation venture investor, Adam Draper was pretty much predestined to work with startups. The son of Tim Draper, the founder of global VC firm Draper Fisher Jurveston, Adam has made it his mission to do everything in his power to help entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life — without relying on his family name to do so. After taking the plunge as an entrepreneur himself, co-founding a capital raising and trading platform and an equity crowdfunding portal, the 26-year-old again finds himself back in the Draper wheelhouse: Early-stage finance.
Sites like Kickstarter have been used to crowdfund a wide range of projects, but I don’t think they’ve ever done what 
Earlier this month, we wrote that 
Dust off that cheque book. 
Understanding the dynamics of a research-driven software company can be complex. To gain some insight, I recently interviewed 
Editor’s note: Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 40-city community bringing the global startup world together while educating, inspiring, and connecting entrepreneurs. As an Electronic Arts’ intern eight years ago, I asked Bing Gordon then the chief creative officer and the only remaining early founding team member, a question about vision. “How can I know where the puck is going to be?” While he delivered a satisfactory response, two weeks later I received an email from Bing saying, “I answered that question poorly a few weeks and I wanted to try again.” A few weeks ago Bing joined me at Startup Grind in Silicon Valley where he delivered some great advice that has become one of his trademarks. In 2010 Mark Pincus called KPCB general partner Bing Gordon (look for a bald guy on the front row) one of the world’s “great CEO coaches” supporting founders on the boards of companies like Amazon, Zynga, Klout, and Zazzle. Here are some excepts from our recent interview. Derek: Tell us about your family and where you grew up? BING: So I grew up in a suburb of Detroit. My dad was a first generation Scotsman and his dad was a janitor. And he was somebody that believed the grass was always greener and didn’t have, kind of, context or resources. Thanks, Dad! We were the first to move in to a subdivision built out of farmlands surrounding Detroit, so I grew up kind of in the creek. Playing sports with my brother who remembers growing up in the House of Pain. So I had a good Midwestern upbringing. I didn’t work in an office before going to Stanford business school, but I did think I was a pretty damn good teenage caddy. I played hockey and lacrosse at the university level and played both, kind of, for most of my adult life. Derek: What was your plan heading to college? BING: Well I went to Yale thinking I was going to be a math major and a writer, and I got there and Yale was lousy at math and it seemed socially irrelevant, so I kind of became an athlete-near-college-dropout. I realized I was flunking a third of my classes going into the final. My proud accomplishments in college other than sports achievements was I wrote poetry. Kind of light verse, in a coffee shop, and Peter Faulk when he was doing Columbo came, and liked it so much he took
Since emerging on the scene in early 2012, the Boston-based 
Make way for one more big venture fund coming out of Europe, this one with some colorful backers. Oliver and Marc Samwer — founders of the Rocket Internet startup incubator among other things — have teamed up with Fabian Siegel, one of the people behind online food delivery company DeliveryHero, to launch 
Editor’s note: David Selinger is CEO and Co-Founder of RichRelevance. He previously co-founded Redfin and led the research and development arm of Amazon.com’s Data Mining and Personalization team.
Just a few weeks ago, we told you about Rabbit, a new video chat app that launched in private beta. Separating itself from other video chat services, the company seeks to enable persistent, always-on connections between users. To do that, the Rabbit team raised a round of seed funding worth $ 3.3 million.
With each fleeting moment, we inch closer to 
Speech technology company Vestec announced that it has landed $ 1.5 million in funding from V. Raman Kumar, the founder and former CEO of MModal, a provider of clinical transcription services and clinical documentation workflow solutions. Kumar has also joined Vestec’s board of directors as vice chairman and will oversee the development of products and services for the global market with a focus on healthcare.
“In The Studio” continues this week by welcoming a 
With unemployment and “under-employment” rampant among grads, many college students are facing the unpleasant reality of a less-than-appealing job market. As a result, students have begun turning to alternative resources to help them prep for life after college, whether that be through skill-focused online platforms like Skillshare or online educational resources like 
Slava Rubin knows a thing or two about crowdfunding. Founded in 2008, his company, 
Six and a half years after starting the company, Joe Cohen, the founder of a aftermarket ticket exchange 
Editor’s note: 
Talk to 
Serial entrepreneur Michael Breidenbrücker — founder of Last.fm and RjDj — is joining the team behind Zurich-based app discover startup, 42matters, maker of the Playboard app for Google’s Play Store. Playboard is a sort of Flipboard for app discovery — powered by algorithms but curated by editors, with personalised recommendations.
OMGPOP founder Charles Forman has raised some money for his new venture Picturelife, according to an SEC filing. The startup, which is focused on backing up, storing, and providing access to all of your photos in the cloud, closed a $ 4 million in new funding. The app works by syncing photos from multiple devices, and giving users the ability to access them from anywhere. Users can also import and sync photos from a number of other social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and others.
Hoover’s co-founder Patrick Spain has launched a new venture today, aiming to provide an online, subscription health care service to the U.S.
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