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- Stealth Mode Watch: Another Nail In The Coffin Of 'Stealth'
- Hate The iTunes 10 Icon? Think You Can Do Better?
| Stealth Mode Watch: Another Nail In The Coffin Of 'Stealth' | Top |
| Stealth Mode Match , a searchable data spider of often very revealing SEC form D filings , is the brain child of Denis Papathanasiou, who came up with the idea while researching funding options (a.k.a spying) for his ebooks startup Fifobooks , “I was just using it to keep tabs on specific investors and other competitors in the ebook space, but I mentioned it to a few people, and they were interested enough to want to use it themselves.” Papathanasiou then added a public API and launched it in beta under its own domain. Right now the site allows a simple search mode which shows results for the past four weeks and then an extended API mode which allows results past that date as well as filtering parameters like “people,”"companies” and “places” (Humans beware: The data is delivered in XML files). Papathanasiou says he got the idea from First Round Capital Managing Director Josh Kopelman’s “The Death of Stealth Mode,” which warned startups of the perils of filing series D forms. “If you’re starting a company and want to stay in “stealth mode”, make sure you understand the impact of your Form D filing and factor that into your plans. And if you’re a lawyer for a startup company, please tell your clients about the public disclosures you make on their behalf!” In the meantime, watch your back McClure. CrunchBase Information Dave McClure First Round Capital Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| Hate The iTunes 10 Icon? Think You Can Do Better? | Top |
| Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ obsessive focus on design detail is at least partially responsible for why the tech sphere and the design sphere are so intertwined at the moment. Which makes the ire that Jobs has received for the current iTunes 10 logo (not to mention the foibles of Ping ) particularly poignant. The universal hatred for this thing has spawned an @BPGlobalPR-esque Twitter account , some pretty impressive suggestions of alternate logos over on design collaboration site Dribbble , and an email to Jobs himself. ValuLeads designer Joshua Kopac : Enjoyed the presentation today. But … this new iTunes logo really sucks. You're taking 10+ years of instant product recognition and replacing it with an unknown. Let's both cross our fingers on this…. Steve Jobs to designer Joshua Kopac: We disagree. Sent from my iPhone Attention Joshua Kopac, Steve Jobs has been reinventing the design landscape since before you were using Mac Paint. HE TOOK A FONT CLASS AT REED FOR CHRISSAKES. But yeah, people love to backseat graphic design among other things, so I’ll tell you what, anyone who thinks that they can do a better job at logo design than Jobs, Jony Ive and team is welcome to have at it. Just send your submissions to tips@techcrunch , with subject line: “I am better than Steve Jobs” or something more clever and I’ll link to and post the best ones here. Because I for one find the more “Metal” iTunes 10 logo kind of cool and I’m sure our readers, nerds that they are, could do way better. Side note: How much do you think sending that “Sent from my iPhone” notification pleases Steve Jobs? I’m willing to bet a heckuva a lot. I’m almost surprised Jobs doesn’t include a * after the “my” as in, *”I designed it, bitch.” Image: Rich Hemsley Update: We’ve got our first post-worthy alternate by Chris Carlozzi. Not sure what the heart on the right is supposed to symbolize, but the rest of it is top notch. And here’s our second by Filipe Hauser. And a third by Nabeel Khalid . Fourth contender by Faizal Bakri. Fifth in the series by Dan Reneer, whose email subject line was “Steve Jobs has more money than me, but only because he wears mock turtlenecks.” CrunchBase Information Apple iTunes Information provided by CrunchBase | |
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