To Get Funded On Kickstarter, Talk About Cats And Karma (And Don’t Grovel)


If you’ve contributed to a lot of strangers’ Kickstarter campaigns, you no doubt thought you were giving money to projects you saw as having particular social value, utility or artistic merit. In...
    






A New Way Of Looking At The World’s Most Innovative Companies


Over the past six months I’ve been involved in creating a new innovation benchmarking index. I’m really happy to say it is launched today. You can see the inaugural Elastic Innovation Index here. It...
    






The 2014 Midas List of Tech’s Top Venture Investors Is Now Open For Entries


It’s time for all great technology investors and company builders to stand up and be counted in the 14th annual Forbes Midas List of the world’s top venture capitalists. Since 2011, Forbes has worked...
    






Will You Go Viral? Here’s A Way To Predict


The following post is by Roger Wu, cofounder of the business-to-business content distribution network, Cooperatize. We’ve seen it too many times.  Someone tweets something in poor taste, the...
    






Top French Court Upholds 75% Tax While Footballers Eye Exit


You have to hand it to the French for making tax news interesting. Their on-again off-again 75% tax on the wealthy fueled a worldwide debate over whether high earners are unpatriotic to call it...
    






Google Paid AdBlock Plus for Whitelisting its Sponsored Ads


The popularity of ad block engine for Firefox and Android pushed Google towards paying a ransom for whitelisting its sponsored ads. According to Horizont, the whitelist program allows ad delivering...

The Top 10 Most Powerful Celebrities of 2013


Forbes not only ranks the richest people on earth, but also for instance the most powerful celebrities. Interestingly there are a lot of women under the top 10. Oprah Winfrey is back on the #1 spot...

Mila Kunis is Reddit’s Hottest Woman 2013


Mila Kunis, the Sexiest Woman in the World (according to FHM) is now also reddit's hottest woman of 2013.A reddit user compiled votes from reddit users to create the first ever top 100 hottest woman...
    


Maxim Hot 100 of 2013 Released


The Maxim Hot 100 of 2013 has been released this week. Miley Cyrus broke her win of the #1 spot already before the list was revealed. Now the full list has been released on Maxim. Miley Cyrus made a...