Five Q’s with Deb Tillett // McKeever Conwell on how to be black // Rocket fire leads to cancellation of SW Beer-Sheva [Links]

Five questions with Deb Tillett [Baltimore Sun]: “I saw in the job at ETC everything I like about startups and the entrepreneurial process. The rush of going from zero to that first $50,000 or $1 million in revenue — it’s a gateway drug! You really need to keep doing it.”

DC Regional 3rd Quarter Venture Capital Deals [Forward Thinking]: “The 3rd Quarter saw 20 Maryland Companies raise a total of nearly $160M for an average of $8M per deal while perennial powerhouse Virginia saw only 12 companies raise $40M for the same period.”
How Obama’s tech team built a “force multiplier” with Amazon and a narwhal [Ars Technica]: “[T]he Obama team relied almost exclusively on Amazon’s cloud computing services for computing and storage power.”
How To Be Black [Huffington Post]: Given.to‘s McKeever Conwell joins comedian Baratunde Thurston and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill to discuss Thurston’s ” ‘instruction manual’ on ‘How To Be Black.’ ”
Startup Weekend Beer-Sheva canceled on account of rocket fire [The Jerusalem Post]: “At about 8:30PM, after the third missile alarm and one rocket hitting a few dozen yards away from the building where we were hosted, we had to submit the safety order by the Israeli Army and the city’s representatives who told us to shut down and cancel the rest of the event.”