Monthly Archives: July 2010

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Twitter updates for 2010-07-31

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Twitter updates for 2010-07-30

  • #Startup2Sartup — at Stonebrook Historic House http://gowal.la/r/YpvT #
  • 'It is important to pick the winners, but it's also important that the winners pick you' : Sam Altman (@sama) from Loopt. #AngelConf #
  • 'Luck is a goddess that needs to be worshipped as o/w she will go to someone else' :@m2jr being humble abt success as superangel #AngelConf #
  • Joshua Schachter (@joshu) says don't be like VCs who give entrepreneurs the SHITS: Show High Interest and Then Stall #AngelConf #
  • #AngelConf PG predicts that there will be no fixed amount raised, no lead, and no closing date. Rolling closes and merely nominal leads. #
  • RT @davemcclure: bio on @MKapor , founder of Lotus 123 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Kapor #AngelConf #
  • 'there is a VC playbook — that's why they all sound the same' : @mkapor #AngelConf #
  • '2/3 of all of @sequoiacap's early stage investments had some number of angels involved in those companies' :Greg McAdoo #AngelConf #
  • 'The biggest source of deals were entrepreneurs that I hadn't invested in, but tried to help them anyway' :@ariel #AngelConf #
  • 'When angels become successful, they become superangels, and then they start to suck' :@arrington #AngelConf #
  • 'There's an entire generation of entrepreneurs building dipshit companies to sell them to GOOG for $25M' as quoted by @arrington #AngelConf #
  • 'I'm very good at blogging, where there is very little upside or downside to picking the winners' :@arrington #AngelConf #
  • #AngelConf @jeff expelling the difference between angels, superangels, uVCs (micro-VCs), and VCs. http://twitpic.com/29tcf5 #
  • Watch #AngelConf live at http://www.justin.tv/ycombinator (Hat tip @garrttan) #
  • 'entrepreneurs are crystal balls for the tech industry' : @ronconway #
  • Here at #AngelConf with a whole bunch of interesting angel investors. Thanks to @ycombinator for organizing! http://twitpic.com/29t8mh #
  • Fascinating yet somber discussion on NPR's Fresh Air: 'Dr. Atul Gawande: Make End Of Life More Humane' http://k9.vc/csUr81 #
  • AngelConf — at Y Combinator http://gowal.la/r/YmrD #
  • RT @hunterwalk: .@youtube upload limit increased to 15 minutes. http://bit.ly/9sRPbN #
  • Did the mistake of sitting inside at Peet's at Town and Country Village. Now I smell like coffee. Ugh. #
  • .@Hobees lol. I use Chief Firestarter as my title as a reference to helping start companies 🙂 So you don't have anything to worry about. #
  • lol RT @Hobees: @manukumar We hope it's outside! (Do not want a repeat of the Great Fire of '96!) #
  • Starting fires… — at Hobee's http://gowal.la/r/Yjfr #

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Twitter updates for 2010-07-29

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Twitter updates for 2010-07-28

  • shhhh. RT @Baris: .@manukumar is card munching. So cool! #coolstartupsyoudontknow #
  • It's not often that I legitimately get to put links to NSFW sites in an email, but today is one of those days. #
  • Intel Capital Angel Dinner — at Marché http://gowal.la/r/XYiH #
  • Intel/Dell Payola NYTimes: Dell’s Trouble Kicking the Intel Habit – http://nyti.ms/b0BnOD #
  • Better title: Library of Congress says: Let it Sn0w, Let is Sn0w! 'Exemption Will Allow ‘Jailbreaking’ of iPhones' – http://nyti.ms/dtXpft #
  • From the Chronicles of the Obvious: RT @NYTimes: N.F.L. Toughens Warning On Risks of Head Injury – http://nyti.ms/cHxIyV #
  • Love the design of the Apple keyboard and Magic TrackPad combo. http://www.apple.com/magictrackpad/ #
  • I think I have a solution for @GMail slowness: Click send on the desktop, and while it's spinning do another one on the laptop. #FAIL #

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Twitter updates for 2010-07-27

  • .@satishd I'm skeptical about any "VC industry metrics." About as accurate as "analysts" for public companies. (i.e. All full of…) #
  • Financial Reform Act: Hedge Funds and PE Funds Over $150M Required to Register; VC Funds are Not http://k9.vc/aQDMKE (h/t Wilmer Hale) #
  • Sense prevails RT @TechCrunch: Now Legal In The US: Jailbreaking Your iPhone, Ripping A DVD For Educational Purposes – http://tcrn.ch/dg2eS6 #
  • Dear @GMail, Can you get your act in gear and improve the speed for your power users w/ >4GB mail spools? Thanks. #
  • This even a metric worth looking at!? Quality, not quantity. cc @danprimack RT @peHUB: 10 Most Active VC Firms of 2010 http://dlvr.it/32pHY #
  • "Teach It or Lose It" RT @sgblank: You Can't Take It With You: http://wp.me/prGQZ-1Ed #
  • Why the Valley is the place to be. +1 RT @GreylockVC: Henry McCance on why Greylock moved its HQ to Silicon Valley http://bit.ly/aULg3z #

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