If your startup is anything like most others out there, you've a dispersed team of developers, colleagues and friends who you're conferencing with. If you're at the customer stage, you probably have a newsletter that you're distributing - and, it's not automated. If this sounds like your team, you've got to have a Mac! I wrote about it at Zopa, but after listening to Steve Job's opening speech at Apple's WWDC 2006 conference it's clear that a startup is hindered if its team isn't running on Mac Leopard (it's next operating system). Here's why:

• Built in video cam

• If the whole team's got a Mac, conferencing is a breeze. Better yet, you'll be able to walk someone through a document during the conference - everyone can see each other and the document at the same time! COOL!

• Mac Mail is now coming with stationary! So, if you're sending out newsletters, you have an HTML template that's ready to go with no effort (assuming it's got all the bells and whistles to help us avoid getting tossed into junk mail)

BUT, the coolest thing of all is you can stream web site content to your desktop with no coding. All you do is drag a box over, say, an eBay auction in your browser - and the data on the auction will automatically stream to your desktop - so you don't need to open a browser to figure out the latest price on that cool item you want!