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Huboo — a British e-commerce fulfillment startup — hired its very own corporate bard. Yup, I’m not kidding. Just like the Celtic kings of old, they actually have a person on the payroll whose job it is to tell stories of the company’s achievements through song. What’s weird about it though, is that I’ve been convinced this isn’t just a cheap marketing stunt. It’s actually a great lesson for startups on the magic that can be unlocked when you stay true to your founding ideals… it’s also just great marketing....

It is hard to define what exactly an entrepreneur is. There are different qualities needed in different stages of a your company. A passionate idea guy in the beginning, a talented people manager in the middle and maybe a hardcore and stone cold negotiator at the end. Some entrepreneurs want to be everything, and sometimes that means the end of a company. Some founders are thrown out of their own companies and replaced by so called ‘experienced’ CEOs who then screw up everything the founder built upo....

It’s not often you get a geek and a comedian sitting opposite each other to talk about tech, but the exact thing happened at theNExTWORK conferencewhenJimmy Fallon sat down with Sean Parkerto gain an insight into his life. The pair talk about Justin Timberlake, hacking, the rise and fall of Napster and even Spotify, the music service that Parker wishes Napster could have been. Commenting on Apple’s iCloud, Turntable.fm, Facebook’s dominance and where Myspace went wrong, Parker actually admits to “trolling on Myspace all day long for girls, trying to get laid....

Should Latin American entrepreneurs necessarily head to Silicon Valley when they go to the US? The answer is ‘no’ according to Buenos Aires startup networkPalermo Valley, which chose New York to host its latest event, calledLatin America Meets New York to talk Startups. If you missed it, here is what you need to know. The main highlight of the event, which took place at the incubator of private tech universityNYU-Polylast Wednesday, were its two panels, featuring entrepreneurs and investors with a deep knowledge the region, both from the US and from Latin America....

I’ve been beating around the bush with this topic for the past several months, so it’s time that I met it directly and whacked it on its head. Revenue. Cash flow. Balance sheets. These are words that make me excited. Perhaps they make you want to reach for stimulants, but I find them exhilarating on their own. Now, I am no certifiable expert on any of the topics that I am going to be writing about for the next 1,500 words or so, but that doesn’t bother me....