This summer Red Sky is organizing Global Startup Challenge 2010, a startup event starting July 1st and ending August 31st. Apply before June 16th! Project teams can include up to 3 people. Selected teams will be invited to Szczecin.

We’re inviting people from Poland and Europe to take part in a unique project!
It doesn’t matter if you live in Szczecin, Warsaw or Berlin!
It doesn’t matter if you only have an idea or a working internet project!
We welcome everyone ready to expend 2 vacation months for hard work.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a student, you just turned 18 or you’re long past thirty.
The reward may be unique – success in the global Internet!

Red Sky focuses on Internet related projects aimed at the global market and they will have specialists helping participants throughout the two months.

The most interesting projects will receive up to 200,000 euros in seed capital through the Buisness Angels’ Network AMBER, and the Starter Capital Fund Pomeranus Seed.

Anna at Cloudberry Communications pinged me saying that four Swedish start-ups were accepted to Seedcamp.

Crunchfish - mobile business applications. (Malmö)
Eurodocs - web-based business solutions with identity and privacy protection. (Stockholm)
Hypezoo - pre-release information on upcoming games and products. (Stockholm)
TuneRights - p2p commerce platform for the music industry. (Stockholm)

Complete list of participants here

We wish them the best of luck!

Are you interested in technical analysis? I recently found StockTwitsTV - an online “TV station” with (many) daily live shows from professional traders + you can watch recorded ones. A great way to learn how to trade with technical analysis or just get the latest information about where different markets are heading. And it’s free!

Yesterday I had the pleasure of listening to Jouko Ahvenainen, co-founder of Grow VC. They want to make it easier for web and mobile start-ups to get funding. People who have not been investing in start-ups before are also encouraged to try. With Grow VC it doesn’t matter where you reside. It is a global community. You can sign up for free, but to be able to seek an investment, invest or offer your services you pay a minimum fee of US$20 per month. Not bad. At the time of writing, investors have indicated that they have as much as US$13,698,500 available for investments.

TechCrunch: “Grow VC launches, aiming to become the Kiva for tech startups”
BBC News: “the first global crowdfunding tool for web and mobile start-ups”

Michael Covel, author of Trend Following & The Complete Turtle Trader, released his movie Broke - The New American Dream in 2009. The main theme of the movie is trend following. Making money in both up and down markets. It touches the subject of the financial crisis and how people are screwed over by people looking for short term gains. Instead of following the herd, create your own path in life and investing. Don’t listen to the guy next door or the know-it-all guy on TV, they don’t know any more about the future than anyone else. Instead trust the numbers - the price never lies. It is the kind of movie that I would like all my friends to see. Kudos, Michael!