Source:Valleywag
If you ever wanted to know which countries limit access to the great bountiful flow of information we call the World Wide Web, you only need glance at the gaping black holes in the above map. Reporters Without Borders has compiled the following list of 15 countries that restrict the Internet: Maldives, Tunisia, Belarus, Libya, Syria, Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Iran, China, Myanmar/Burma, Cuba, Turkmenistan, and North Korea. I don’t know; some of them sound like marvelous vacation spots. And the lack of Internet access? Bonus.
Source:Valleywag
An anonymous post about Benchmark Capital on VC-bashing site TheFunded.com piqued our curiosity. Titled “Don’t Play with Women”, it’s a pretty damning claim:
Benchmark has said publicly that they will never fund a woman-founded company. They’ve never had a woman partner. And the mood seems to be like a frat party (a real turnoff to women).
So far, 13 voters have agreed with the statement, while 2 have disagreed.
We’re wondering, when and where did any Benchmark partner really make such a claim? ((Seriously, can anyone help me find it? I’ve been looking all day with no luck.) Secondly, well, i’ts not really true, right? Benchmark-backed E-Loan was cofounded by Janina Pawlowski. And Sarah Leary, pictured here, just joined Benchmark, along with Nirav Tolia, as an entrpreneur-in-residence — the surest ticket a startup founder can get for getting back for a new venture.
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