70% of Time Could Be Used Better - How the Best CEOs Get the Most Out of Every Day

The average tech CEO works about 300 days a year, 14 hours a day. That's 4,200 hours a year. The stats for most other tech leaders and startup employees aren't too far off. It sounds like a lot of time, but for most, it's not enough.

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The Rise Of The Euro Mega-Round

Slowly, quietly, but increasingly more noisily, startups originally hailing from Europe but going global have been raising larger and larger funding rounds. The linch-pin in the ecosystem has been financing from London (handily, that's we're holding out Disrupt conference there in October).

http://tcrn.ch/1dnNDYL

French voted the sexiest language in the world

A French accent is perhaps the sexiest accessory one can have, according to a recent poll. Italian was voted the second sexiest, followed by the British accent. Shutterstock French women are in luck - their language was named the sexiest, according to a recent poll.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/french-sexiest-language-poll-article-1.1498834

Lemon Digital Wallet Founder Wences Casares Gets $20 Million in Funding for Bitcoin Startup Xapo

Wences Casares, who sold his Lemon digital wallet platform to LifeLock for $43 million late last year, has gotten $20 million in funding for a new Bitcoin wallet and vault startup called Xapo. The Series A funding is being led by Benchmark, with Fortress Investment Group and Ribbit Capital also participating in funding the Palo Alto, Calif.

http://on.recode.net/1gnRG5Q