AMSTERDAM, Sept 16 (Reuters) - In the two years that Rockstart Accelerator - a private bootcamp for tech firms - has been going, it says the 20 startups it has backed have raised 15 million euros ($19 million) and created nearly 150 permanent jobs.

They come with sound effects, themed wallpapers and stickers designed to let kids customize their tablets. Fuhu, which makes the nabi tablet computer for kids, has created $170 Star Wars-themed accessory bundles that include a new 7-inch table.

is fanning the flames of its Lucasfilm unit by making special use of the network of YouTube talent that it acquired when it bought Maker Studios for upwards of $500 million last year. It arranged for 14 Maker stars around the globe to open new merchandise in live Web videos starting Wednesday afternoon. The event included a splashy special appearance Thursday morning on "Good Morning America," the variety news program of Disney-owned ABC.

In a continent where one in five young people are out of work, governments are pumping more and techservice more cash into startups in the hope they can goose economic growth. Europe's politicians would like more success stories like Fairphone. Exact numbers are hard to determine, but according to AngelList, a website for new companies, there are now more than 4,700 startups in Europe, compared with nearly 14,000 in the United States.

"European venture capitalists have had to work in a more capital constrained environment," said Anne Glover, chairman of the EVCA. "But they are creating companies which are of equal if not greater value than those in other regions.

Leaked images of action figures of characters that have not even hit the big screen — like Sarco Plank, some kind of alien desert nomad that has only been glimpsed in a Vanity Fair on-set shoot — are only likely to fuel consumer demand, says Steve Pasierb, CEO of the Toy Industry Association.

"We want our customers to understand they are part of the process," he said. The project wants people to think more about the way they consume things. wants social values as part of the product proposition. "We've proved there's a market that . Van Abel admits child labour and bribery are hard to avoid when dealing with mines in Democratic Republic of Congo.

"Europeans culturally are much more reserved than Americans," said Jon Bradford, managing director at TechStars, an incubator, who has helped dozens of startups in Europe from London to Moscow. "You should not necessarily (think) that because someone is quiet and doesn't run around and say 'look at me, aren't I awesome,' that that is a limiting factor when it comes to their ambition.

All the most important technologies in Apple's iPhone and iPad, for instance, were developed outside Silicon Valley and largely state funded, including a Nobel-winning breakthrough by European scientists Albert Fert and Peter Gruenberg. Mazzucato's research shows large-scale funding has been essential to past breakthroughs.

"I totally panicked," he said. I had to do it in batches. 5 million ready and I pushed the button, and it went 'EHHH. 5 million euros to some account in China. " (Edited by Simon Robinson) ' Because internet banking doesn't allow you to transfer 1. "I was at home and my kids were running around .

Co-founder Brian Garret, whose first invention was a 3D-printed pair of headphones with the lyrics of a favourite song in relief across the headband, said the idea is that printing capacity can work like a real-time market: When demand is high, the cost will rise.

Public cash for innovation was squeezed by the financial crisis, though Europe is beginning to spend more again: Over the next seven years Brussels will devote at least 850 million euros of its 80 billion euro innovation budget to help new and growing small firms. Around 40 percent of all venture capital in Europe comes from governments, according to the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA). To close the funding gap, governments are stepping in.

A business from Colombia wants to help traditional taxi companies rival Uber, the car-sharing business that is encroaching on many European markets. Deutsch's company, which generates sales leads from tracking web visits, competes with one now owned by Google. Rockstart's firms are no different. Another Rockstart company is a bit like crowdfunding site Kickstarter. Though startups are hyped as disruptive and revolutionary, only a few have totally new business ideas.

Teams get a total of six months, including a trip to Silicon Valley, at the shared office. "If I wanted to raise 50k tomorrow I'd ask a mentor and they'd arrange an interview. "In 10 weeks I'm getting 10 years' worth of exposure," Deutsch said.

"It's cool to be in a startup there," said Cralan Deutsch, a 44-year-old founder whose Rockstart-backed company has been ticking over for a decade but joined the incubator for a revamp and access to new contacts. "It used to be, I go to a party and I tell the girls I'm in a startup and they walk away - that's changing now."You should not necessarily (think) that because someone is quiet and doesn't run around and say 'look at me, aren't I awesome,' that that is a limiting factor when it comes to their ambition. "Europeans culturally are much more reserved than Americans," said Jon Bradford, managing director at TechStars, an incubator, who has helped dozens of startups in Europe from London to Moscow.

Average government spending on research and development for the 28 member states of the European Union was 1. Industry in the United States invests about twice as much on research as it does in Europe. The most important need is money for research. 98 percent and far short of America's level near 3 percent, according to OECD data. 97 percent of GDP in 2012, behind China on 1.

Even so, incubators like Rockstart - there are around 100 of them in Europe, according to website tech. The data is partial and no clear trends are discernible. Funded variously by private wealth, government support and multinationals, http://www.starfisherp.com they consolidate teams of talent and plug young businesses into investment and expertise. eu - certainly help feed the market.

Seed and venture capital has financed young tech firms for decades. In Europe, big names include TechStars London and Startupbootcamp. Incubators have also been funded directly by multinationals such as Telefonica of Spain, Deutsche Telecom and Barclays. Bootcamps like Rockstart offer added support, replicating a model that started in 2005 with Silicon Valley firm Y Combinator, whose 700 alumni include Dropbox, Reddit and Airbnb.

The lack of finance beyond incubators means few companies grow big independently, and most end up selling. Riccardo Osti, CEO of a Rockstart-backed e-commerce startup which recently turned down a 200,000 euros investment offer, thinks that's fine.

In the movie, the BB-8 is kind of like an updated version of R2-D2. The mini version created by Sphero moves much the same way. It's a giant rolling sphere, with a traditional droid head that somehow manages to stay on top.

Van Abel admits child labour and bribery are hard to avoid when dealing with mines in Democratic Republic of Congo. "We've proved there's a market that . "We want our customers to understand they are part of the process," he said. The project wants people to think more about the way they consume things. wants social values as part of the product proposition.

The average value of each deal where a price was given - $420 million - is 80 percent higher than the 10-year average of $233 million, according to Thomson Reuters data. 5 billion that Mojang, the Swedish game developer behind Minecraft, collected from Microsoft earlier this week is far from typical. But in the first eight months of 2014, more than 100 European venture-backed firms were sold to others in the industry.

Europe's politicians would like more success stories like Fairphone. In a continent where one in five young people are out of work, governments are pumping more and more cash into startups in the hope they can goose economic growth. Exact numbers are hard to determine, but according to AngelList, a website for new companies, there are now more than 4,700 startups in Europe, compared with nearly 14,000 in the United States.

The Dutch focus on manufacturing stems partly from the Netherlands' strong design culture, and the ground-breaking 3D printing community found there and in neighbouring Belgium. Belgian 3D printing firm Materialise, a pioneer in 3D printing, has been around for more than two decades.

NEW YORK (AP) — The release of the new Star Wars movie may still be months off, but Disney is unleashing its full marketing "Force" behind the launch of hundreds of toys and other items related to the film.

They may start things, but economists say Europe needs more firms to then grow bigger independently, instead of just becoming acquisitions. A recent report by the Economist Intelligence Unit for Barclays Bank warned that the UK - far and away Europe's most successful startup hub - risked becoming "a national start-up incubator supplying foreign multinationals. Bootcamps are no panacea.

"It could be that the startups basically get screwed because the terms of the deal are very much in the multinationals' favour. "The potential downsides relate to the negotiating ability of the startups to get a good deal with the multinationals," said Mike Wright, professor of entrepreneurship at Imperial College, London, who contributed to the report.

As for many European startups, the biggest single obstacle is follow-on venture funding. CEO Peter Weijmarshausen moved the firm's headquarters to New York in 2010 to be close to its main market and attract talent and investment. It now employs 150 people and hosts around 19,000 online shops opened by its customers to sell designs they have made. Like others, Weijmarshausen believes 3D printing will challenge mass production.

Mazzucato's research shows large-scale funding has been essential to past breakthroughs. All the most important technologies in Apple's iPhone and iPad, for instance, were developed outside Silicon Valley and largely state funded, including a Nobel-winning breakthrough by European scientists Albert Fert and Peter Gruenberg.Industry in the United States invests about twice as much on research as it does in Europe. The most important need is money for research. 98 percent and far short of America's level near 3 percent, according to OECD data. 97 percent of GDP in 2012, behind China on 1. Average government spending on research and development for the 28 member states of the European Union was 1.

The EIF said the need for cash is obvious: More than two-thirds of the funds it has given money to since 2011 have failed to reach their target size. Investors are wary of big risks in what has been a highly fractured market. One conduit for that money will be the European Investment Fund, which is mostly owned by European governments, and gives money to venture capital funds to invest in small companies.

"European venture capitalists have had to work in a more capital constrained environment," said Anne Glover, chairman of the EVCA. "But they are creating companies which are of equal if not greater value than those in other regions.

Public cash for innovation was squeezed by the financial crisis, though Europe is beginning to spend more again: Over the next seven years Brussels will devote at least 850 million euros of its 80 billion euro innovation budget to help new and growing small firms. Around 40 percent of all venture capital in Europe comes from governments, according to the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA). To close the funding gap, governments are stepping in.

Some will make money replicating successful ideas. Most will go nowhere, neither growing nor failing but limping along. But every year 100-200 in Europe are bought by rivals or much bigger firms. Few, if any, of these firms will ever be Google or Facebook.

For economist Mariana Mazzucato, who specialises in innovation, the lack of investment in Europe is a big problem. "One of the big questions is actually how to get business itself to be more innovative - firms of all different sizes. "I just don't think startups are the point," she said.

"One of the big questions is actually how to get business itself to be more innovative - firms of all different sizes. "I just don't think startups are the point," she said. For economist Mariana Mazzucato, who specialises in innovation, the lack of investment in Europe is a big problem.

In a study published in March, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) found nearly half of all new jobs in 18 countries are created by young, growing companies. The dream of starting a tech company on a few thousand dollars and turning it into billions is one of Silicon Valley's greatest exports. As the cost of computing has fallen, it has moved within reach of more people.

Europe is the world's biggest single market, but it struggles to fund its newest firms. The Dutch startups capture many of the main differences with startups in the United States. Like all young European firms, they face big financing challenges. According to Thomson Reuters data, venture capitalists invested an average of $4. 14 million per firm in India, $8. 6 million per firm in the United States, and $12. 7 million in each of more than 1,600 new European firms last year. That compares with $7.

Co-founder Bas van Abel, a 37-year old Dutch artist, concedes his company is far from a panacea for the ills of mass-manufacturing, but says it is working to improve conditions for the Chinese workers who assemble the handsets. The company has now sold more than 41,000 phones in Europe using African minerals it certifies as "conflict free", and will begin selling in the United States in 2015.

In the United States the average value so far this year, at $398 million, is about 70 percent up on the 10-year average. Prices are volatile, and the number of deals is still far short of the United States, but prices have been higher for European firms.

Even in a non-movie year, Star Wars merchandise has consistently sold well — $2 billion annually around the world, according to Pasierb. So it's not so far-fetched that Disney will exceed that in the publicity-blitz filled weeks ahead of premiere of the first Star Wars movie since Episode III in 2005.

In one such bootcamp on an Amsterdam canal this year, a freshly graduated firm called 3D Hubs has assembled what its founders call the world's biggest network of 3D printers. The company doesn't own the more than 7,500 printers it connects - enough to collaboratively 3D print a life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty in less than a week - because they are owned by individuals and other businesses, mostly in the United States. 3D Hubs has simply created a network which others can tap into for a fee.

3D Hubs has simply created a network which others can tap into for a fee. The company doesn't own the more than 7,500 printers it connects - enough to collaboratively 3D print a life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty in less than a week - because they are owned by individuals and other businesses, computer mostly in the United States. In one such bootcamp on an Amsterdam canal this year, a freshly graduated firm called 3D Hubs has assembled what its founders call the world's biggest network of 3D printers.Here's how it works: If a designer in New York, say, urgently needs to deliver a prototype to Sydney, they send instructions to a 3D printer in Australia which creates the object on the spot. 3D Hubs charges a 15 percent commission on each print job; currently it handles around 10,000 prints per month for an average $10 per part.

"I'd be happy to sell if a big brand would come and buy my company, if they offer a very good amount of money. "I mean, we all run these companies because of a passion about a certain topic but, on the other side, we do this for business," said Osti.

Metody na kaca - jakie możliwości jest dobre na kaca - lek i metody. Alka-seltzer - uśmierza ból głowy, podobnie jakim sposobem alka-prim. Pewną z nich jest Hangover Heaven założona przez anestezjologa dr Jasona Burke i działająca w światowej stolicy kaca - Las Vegas.

Co-founder Brian Garret, whose first invention was a 3D-printed pair of headphones with the lyrics of a favourite song in relief across the headband, said the idea is that printing capacity can work like a real-time market: When demand is high, the cost will rise.

Ten popularny lek, kiedy jesteś na kacu może doprowadzić do uszkodzenia wątroby. Postaw na jeden rodzaj trunków, łączenie sprzyja tzw. Nikotyna, faktycznie jak alkohol, metabolizowana wydaje się być w wątrobie, an organ ten nie radzi osobiście ze zwalczaniem dwu używek jednocześnie.

The massive marketing blitz, which Disney has named "Force Friday," spans all kinds of media and included an 18-hour global "unboxing" streamed live on YouTube. Meanwhile, major toy retailers planned to be open and hold special events when the toys first became available just after midnight Friday.

In the Netherlands, though, Fairphone and a handful of other firms are trying to change manufacturing. That could reshape not just how people produce things, but how they buy them, and even the economics of intellectual property. As in North America and Asia, most European tech startups focus on software. Some are taking the principles of what's known as the sharing economy pioneered by car-poolers like Lyft or room-sharer Airbnb, and applying them to the way things are made.

Fairphone was born as part of a Dutch state-backed project; its early capital came partly from a UK government-funded incubator. But Van Abel says its single biggest source of funding was downpayments from individuals - mostly German - who wanted to buy its phones.

Belgian 3D printing firm Materialise, a pioneer in 3D printing, has been around for more than two decades. The Dutch focus on manufacturing stems partly from the Netherlands' strong design culture, and the ground-breaking 3D printing community found there and in neighbouring Belgium.

Jewellery, accessories for gadgets such as personalised iPhone cases, and homeware are most popular. Shapeways is another young Dutch 3D printing firm. It runs two factories, one in Eindhoven in the Netherlands and one in New York, that let anyone - from haute-couture designers to cat-lovers - print what they want.

One conduit for that money will be the European Investment Fund, which is mostly owned by European governments, and gives money to venture capital funds to invest in small companies. Investors are wary of big risks in what has been a highly fractured market. The EIF said the need for cash is obvious: More than two-thirds of the funds it has given money to since 2011 have failed to reach their target size.

The dream of starting a tech company on a few thousand dollars and turning it into billions is one of Silicon Valley's greatest exports. As the cost of computing has fallen, it has moved within reach of more people. In a study published in March, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) found nearly half of all new jobs in 18 countries are created by young, growing companies.

While most of the people buying Friday will be the die-hard collectors who have to have the hot items first, sales momentum will continue into the holiday shopping season as nostalgic parents introduce a new generation of kids to Star Wars, says Rob Maigret, Sphero's chief creative officer.

"It's pretty rare, but in the age of social media, you can get those characters out and create buzz around these things in ways that you couldn't in the past," Pasierb says. "There's something easy to tap into, which is the Star Wars mystique which is some 30 years old.

Here's how it works: If a designer in New York, say, urgently needs to deliver a prototype to Sydney, they send instructions to a 3D printer in Australia which creates the object on the spot. 3D Hubs charges a 15 percent commission on each print job; currently it handles around 10,000 prints per month for an average $10 per part.

It runs two factories, one in Eindhoven in the Netherlands and one in New York, that let anyone - from haute-couture designers to cat-lovers - print what they want. Shapeways is another young Dutch 3D printing firm. Jewellery, accessories for gadgets such as personalised iPhone cases, and homeware are most popular.Montreal-based OMsignal hopes the funding round, led by Relay Ventures, will help it turn two years of development and a waiting list of 10,000 women into solid online sales for the bra, which uses silver-based fabric to read biometric signals including heart and breath rate and went on sale on Monday.

Po każdej porcji alkoholu wypij szklankę nawadniania, lub innego napoju, ale bez alkoholu i cukru. Ponad 60 rodzajów chorób i urazów ma związek ze spożywaniem alkoholu. Przede wszystkim nie przyspiesza metabolizmu, jedynie przyspiesza wydalanie alkohlu z układu organicznego, co jest zdecydowanie bezpieczne a równie skuteczne.

TORONTO, Sept 19 (Reuters) - A small Canadian company has raised $10 million to take on Nike Inc, Under Armour Inc and others with a sensor-rich sports bra its chief executive says is more useful than a smart watch and more comfortable than a heart rate monitor.

This is split 25:75 between the accelerator and its investors. It has had applications from 56 countries: firms compete for places. Each Rockstart incubator programme is essentially an investment fund which devotes 20,000 to 25,000 euros in cash to each startup and takes an eight percent stake in each. None of its potential returns have yet been realised but on paper, it says the return on investment on its two initial funds is about 185 percent.

Ja na kaca biorę porządny kieliszek żubrówki z trawą żubrową i dobrze odchodzi każdy cierpienie głowy: D. Zupy na przykład żurek lub rosół bywają skuteczne, ale trudno je przyrządzić samemu, będąc w tak niedysponowanym stanie. Aby ułatwić pacjentom regularny modus snu, otrzymują oni specjale leki ułatwiające zasypianie.

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