Everywhere you look these days, people are attempting to start innovative businesses and nonprofits, working on putting team, product and financing together, and generally trying to change the world – or, at least, their world – through entrepreneurship. Meanwhile, I strongly suspect that the mortality rate of tech startups is as high as ever (no rigorous scientific tracking there, just common sense and observation – please do share stats if you know of some). In any case, one failed startup is one too many

It seems the 17-year-old truant who created Chatroulette has applied for a visa.

Online music service Grooveshark is today announcing the launch of a native app for devices running Palm webOS , or in other words the Palm Pre and Pixi phones. With the app, Grooveshark users gain access to its vast on-demand song catalog – the number of tracks in there runs in the millions – but also to the personal playlists and favorites they and other users have cultivated on the kick-ass music service.

RightSide Capital Management is about to shatter the funding landscape. Led by David Lambert, Kevin Dick and John Lee , RightSide Capital believes that seed-stage capital needs a complete overhaul. RightSide will make 100-200 investments per year, and literally manufacture companies in a way that no firm has ever done

The Guidewire Group just launched its Innovate!100 competition to highlight the most promising companies of the year. Early-stage startups are encouraged to submit applications and compete in one of 22 pitch slam events across Europe and North America. The winners will receive more than $2 million dollars in development services and consulting.

Aperture 3 was released just last week , but users immediately began noticing issues with scratch disk space eating up their Macs’ startup disk. Additionally, users of the latest revision of Airport Extreme and Time Capsule base stations have noticed problems using 802.11n’s 5GHz channels. Aperture 3 users attempting to import libraries from Aperture 2 have left their machines crunching away at the data only to return later and find their Macs unresponsive.

Known by many as The Big Apple, and by some in the tech scene as Silicon Alley, New York City has been an international hub for media, art and business for decades. More recently New York has ebbed and flowed with the success and failures of the Internet startup culture, and is now well on its way to cementing its reputation alongside Silicon Valley as a driving global force in the industry. Sponsor RWW’s Never Mind the Valley series: Settled in 1624, New York has a long and storied history of entrepreneurship, and in the 1990s the city was on the cutting edge of Internet and Web innovation.

Two months after announcing that the startup managed to turn a profit in 2009 , Twitter has announced that it will be hiring Pixar finance head Ali Rowghani as its chief financial officer. Twitter’s CEO Evan Williams told Reuters today that the new hire represents the company’s direction toward “creating value for our users and capturing the financial opportunities that result from it.” Rowghani will join Twitter officially in March. Sponsor Last year, Twitter’s search deals with Google and Microsoft made the company around $25 million – about $15 million from Google and $10 million from Microsoft.

If you’ve been a geek your whole life then you understand the term “Canadian girlfriend.” The Canadian (or sometimes British) love interest is the person you talk about when a member of the opposite sex inquires about your dating status. The story is that you met online, you’ve formed a solid bond and you’ll probably break up with your online girlfriend when a girl in your vicinity decides she likes you. The idea is to drive up the value of your perceived social stock.

Earlier today Venture Hacks announced the launch of the AngelList – a curated list of angel investors with an interest in early-stage funding pitches. According to a blog post by Venture Hacks cofounder Babak Nivi, legendary investors like FF Fund angel Dave McClure , Techstars’ Brad Feld and SoftTech VC’s Jeff Clavier are among the site’s first participants.