This week’s edition highlights a conversation with the former SCE Worldwide president and current London Venture Partners member Phil Harrison, a survey that dads are more likely to be the social-media guardian, John Carmack claiming that consoles will fall to Moore’s Law, the five stages of grief the game industry must go through to reach a Golden Age, and a potential price increase for iPad games.

- Andy

StartupDigest Gaming is curated by:
Andy Ellerhorst

What You Need to Read This Week

I, for one, welcome our new StartupDigest overlords. It’s been quiet this week on the hacker front. As always, I love hearing from the readers to know what links you like and don’t like as well as hearing about what you’re working on. Hit me up at john@startupdigest.com.

StartupDigest Hacker is curated by:
John Sheehan – Developer Evangelist for Twilio

What You Need to Read This Week

How to Become a Great Finisher
By Heidi Grant Halvorson, Harvard Business Review

I’m a classic “starter.” I love starting new projects but like many others my excitement tails off as the project goes on. A recent University of Chicago study aims to expose why this is so common and offers up ideas for becoming a better finisher.

Instant Company
By Nat Friedman, nat.org

While getting a new company off the ground, here are the tools Nat Friedman and the team at Xamarin are using to manage the company.

Advice From An Old Programmer
From learnpythonthehardway.org

You just learned how to write code. Now what do you do? As a grizzled software veteran, Zed Shaw offers some advice on how to put your new skills to work most effectively.

Camera That Allows You To Change Focus After Taking a Picture
By Ina Fried, All Things D

From the Just Plain Cool Department, check out this new camera technology that captures the entire field of light letting you change the focal point of a picture after it’s taken. Incredible demos included.

Welcome back to the StartupDigest Reading List, the members-only guide to what you need to read in the startup world every week.

This week we included a presentation, a video, and 3 articles. Trying to mix things up a bit this week :)

On to this week’s reading list!

- Chris

StartupDigest Reading List is curated by:
Chris McCann – Co-Founder, StartupDigest

What You Need to Read This Week

Presentation: So you want to do a startup, eh?
By Tara Hunt

Startups are really, really hard.

Video: The Anatomy of a Fundable Startup
by Naval Ravikant

This is especially useful for startups outside of Silicon Valley and New York City.

How to value your company for sale
By Jason Cohen

Multiples of revenue is only one way a potential acquirer would evaluate your company and it’s typically not the most common.

How do you act on all that product feedback?
By Gabriel Weinberg

Small changes can have a huge effect on your product experience.

The day after you get funded
By Tawheed Kader

This is a good reminder that, after you get funded, your worries don’t disappear. It’s time to buckle down so you can make it rain.

StartupDigest Cloud is curated by:
Velchamy Sankarlingam – VP of Cloud Services Development and Operations at VMware
Brady Murray – Director of Alliances at Eucalyptus Systems

What You Need to Read This Week

Data is the new platform, and social is the intelligence
By Cortney Fielding, GigaOM

Good discussion on the industry trends from Accenture.

For today’s business, the API is the new website

By Colleen Taylor, GigaOM

API used to be an afterthought. The common consumption is becoming the API nowadays.

Moving cloud storage to primetime requires new tech
By Katie Fehrenbacher, GigaOM

Discussion on how selective deployment of SSDs are needed to increase performance in the cloud while keeping low cost.

Today, security must be built from the inside out
By Colleen Taylor, GigaOM

Just perimeter security is not sufficient anymore in the Cloud era. Security and awareness is needed at every layer including the application layer.

Fully recovered from your Bruins celebration? Here’s what we’ve got on tap this week.

Best,
Marc & Bob

Boston StartupDigest is curated by:
Marc Zawel – Co-Founder, EqualApp
Bob Cavezza – Co-Founder, EasyUnsubscriber

What’s Going on in the Boston Startup Community

#BWP June Open Mixer
When: Monday, June 20 6 pm – 8 pm
Where: Hyatt Regency Boston, 1 Avenue De Lafayette, Boston

Summer is here, time for drinks on the roofdeck and outdoor networking.

Social Entrepreneurs Doing Good Business
When: Tuesday, June 21 6 pm – 9:30 pm
Where: WorkBar, 711 Atlantic Avenue, Boston

Hear from founders of socially conscious local startups.

Super Webomatic Weenie Roast
When: Friday, June 24 4 pm – 8 pm
Where: Longview Place Courtyard, 80 Hope Avenue, Waltham

End the week, grab a hotdog and chat it up with industry folks.

This weekend will not be a normal weekend. It will be a Startup Weekend! Get ready to launch your product at the Startup Weekend. There are some tickets available for programmers and designers, so rush to register to get a spot. We also have an interesting Java talk for non-Java developers.

Guadalajara StartupDigest is curated by:
Rubén Medellín – Web Developer at Freshout
Ruy Cervantes - Working on a Ph.D. on Informatics

What’s Going on in the Guadalajara Startup Community

Interesting stuff as usual going on in Amsterdam. Special mention, the highly anticipated App-event “Appsterdam” taking place this weekend.

Regards,
- Omid

For newcomers: The Netherlands StartupDigest is a curated events list created by entrepreneurs that is focused on the needs and interests of startups in The Netherlands.

Netherlands StartupDigest is curated by:

What’s Going on in the Netherlands Startup Community

Efactor Event: Crowdfunding and Online Sourcing
When: Wednesday, June 22: 2pm – 6:30pm
Where: BoomChicago, Amsterdam

Present business plans, talk about crowdfunding, and have a laugh at BoomChicago.

Appsterdam
When: Friday, June 24 – Sunday June 26
Where: Amsterdam

For one weekend, Amsterdam turns into the capital of the App-world: Appsterdam!

7th Biannual Kickout Minor Entrepreneurship UvA
When: Thursday, June 23
Where: Keizersgracht 324, Amsterdam

Attend pitches by Amsterdam’s entrepreneurship students.

Conference time is upon us once again. Open Source Bridge starts this week followed by Indie Web this week. Hope you get a chance to attend one of these great conferences. With that, on to this week’s events.

-Erik

Portland StartupDigest is curated by:
Erik Howard – Founder, ServerHive

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What’s Going on in the Portland Startup Community