Booting Up: Maybe You’d Be More Qualified If You Were a College Dropout

Kelly Faircloth — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 08:19:21 -0400

In a talk at DLD, Ben Horowitz revealed that his VC firm had closed (non-seed) investments in a mere 24 companies, most of them created by “college dropouts with insane ideas going after tiny markets with no way to monetize.” [TechCrunch]

France is considering creating an Internet tax, levied on the collection of personal information. As far as French ideas go, we prefer the croissant. [New York Times]

Speaking of Waterloo: Atari's U.S. arm has declared bankruptcy in an attempt to escape its French parent company. The second plank of this plan is presumably to time-travel back to the late 70s. [L.A. Times]

Some poor kid's been expelled from Montreal College for daring to discover a software vulnerability that left 250,000 students' information exposed. [National Post]

Graph search is a "privacy test" for Facebook. Given that users of the site freak out at phantom privacy crises, this'll be fun. [New York Times]

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Booting Up: Maybe You’d Be More Qualified If You Were a College Dropout