For those of you who do not follow Walker Corporate Law Group, PLLC (Walker) on Twitter, I have set forth below highlights of our tweets for the past seven days (in reverse chronological order). I indeed hope that a few of the links to articles, blog posts, podcasts and videos are helpful to our clients and friends. If you would like to follow Walker on Twitter (or if you would like to receive an RSS feed of our tweets), you can sign-up here. You can also check out the recent tweets of some of the entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and others Walker is following by clicking their photos on such page. If you have any questions or comments (or if you would like any additional information) with respect to any of the tweets below, please contact me through the comments section of this post. Many thanks, Scott
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- Lessons From the War Over Skype – including: “When you buy a company, buy all of the underlying technology.” http://bit.ly/3oNyWz
- What I Learned From Starting A Profitable Company When I Was 14: solid vid interview of Robby Berthume by @AndrewWarner http://bit.ly/49PvOO
- Limited Partners Demanding More Face Time With VCs – “The path to riches is a lot less clear than it was.” http://bit.ly/wYB0g
- Valuation and Option Pool – interesting post by @fredwilson and excellent comments (must-read for entrepreneurs) http://bit.ly/4dSrsl
- Ropes & Gray Lawyer Cutillo ‘Fueled’ $20 Million Insider Scheme – “That’s the ultimate betrayal of trust.” http://bit.ly/r4ncs
- Agassi, Overconfidence and the Death of Wall St. – “infuse the fear of God in ‘the most hardened adrenalin junkie’” http://bit.ly/2rUwpW
- Skype soap opera ends as founders set to regain stake – “do not double-cross a pair of highly litigious billionaires” http://bit.ly/X0523
- Google’s Schmidt on What Sets Silicon Valley Apart – “I’ve been asked this for years . . . . It is the weather.” http://bit.ly/4aKRWJ
- Fascinating podcast via @ecorner with @QD3 and @chamillionaire: mastering the business side of the music industry – http://bit.ly/3bLFcs
- Report Says Big Buyouts Are Likelier to Default – “Apparently, bigger isn’t always better – especially on Wall Street.” http://bit.ly/1LQFnI
- Video – “Sidebar: Challenges Facing the SEC” – interesting brief interview with Ralph Ferrara of Dewey & LeBoeuf http://bit.ly/2VyWL9
- Hedge Funds in Chapter 11 – interesting paper (“activist hedge funds really do add value to distressed companies”) http://bit.ly/33vROS
- Video: John Mack, CEO of Morgan Stanley, Interviewed by Judy Woodruff via Bloomberg (“the crisis is over”) http://bit.ly/tMJJz
- Exploring the Details of 2 Notable Deals – solid analysis of the Black & Decker and Burlington Northern acquisitions http://bit.ly/kxBvY
- Top LP Getting Pickier In Shrinking VC Cottage Industry- “firms worth investing in is much smaller than most LPs think” http://bit.ly/49Fg1J
- “Success is the dirty, gritty world of actually moving the ball forward a couple of feet every day.” @msuster – http://bit.ly/4xovf1 (46:45)
- Another Way VCs Are Cashing Out Beyond IPOs And M&A – “there’s more than just a simple round of financing here” http://bit.ly/3FBZce
- Video: Rodgin Cohen on Decade’s End – “one step away from going over the cliff”; “extremely wrenching experience” http://bit.ly/JcM2h
- The Zappos Culture Document (via @Jason): a must-read for entrepreneurs (e.g., mission: “To live and deliver WOW”) http://bit.ly/1xzacD
- Buffett Takes 10 Days to Seal Biggest Deal in Career: “It was a relatively short conversation,” said Burlington CEO. http://bit.ly/255MhI
- The Future of the Web: Where Will Be in Five Years? very interesting, lengthy post via Cameron Chapman http://bit.ly/418Rxe
- Video: Katzenberg “Optimistic” for DreamWorks on 3-D Innovation (via Bloomberg) – interesting brief video interview http://bit.ly/2KNksJ
- Berkshire Buys Burlington in Buffett’s Biggest Deal – an “all-in wager on the economic future of the United States” http://bit.ly/2kplOG
- Madoff documents reveal incredulous, unfocused SEC – “we are not telling anybody that we have found anything improper” http://bit.ly/3OGTSK
- Interesting discussion re ad.ly and in-stream advertising with @Jason and @msuster on #TWiST episode #25 (48:38) http://bit.ly/4xovf1
- And the Most Secretive Finance Center Is … Delaware? “Move over Switzerland. The state of Delaware has beaten [you].” http://bit.ly/ajyWJ
- Another View: The Eroding Attorney-Client Privilege: “likely to see a chilling effect on the…advice given to clients” http://bit.ly/1cJBGf e
- Despite Slump, Venture Firm [Greylock] Sets Up $575 Million Fund (and hires Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn) http://bit.ly/2nDkYJ
- Video: Foursquare’s Crowley on building the ‘next Twitter’ – interesting brief interview with CEO Dennis Crowley http://bit.ly/1hQc2Q
- Searching for Themes in the M.&A. Market – “Private equity actors continue to struggle.” http://bit.ly/3Mzjsn
- Video: Henry Blodget Interview on Media M&A, Google Apps (via Bloomburg) – “the confidence is coming back” http://bit.ly/2w81jF
- Some Tender Offer Quirks “that … may impact or offset the advantages of using this structure” (via Kirkland & Ellis) http://bit.ly/4oNyJ6
- Shoestring Marketing for Start-ups (via serial entrepreneur Scott Olson): “stay lean and preserve your capital” http://bit.ly/2AvPmB
- NBC Video: Madoff Mocks the SEC’s Incompetence – http://bit.ly/1lLlZt
- How To Be an Angel Investor (Paul Graham 3/09) – “You want to fund people who are relentlessly resourceful.” http://bit.ly/7oEcB
- Excitement Fills New Chinese Exchange as Upstarts Sell Shares – “a major game changer in China’s high-tech industry” http://bit.ly/dL2Hx
- Podcast: A Serious Take on Internet Game Play – interesting discussion via @ecorner with Mark Pincus and Bing Gordon http://bit.ly/3s2HM
- “The greatest knowledge you can get is from doing.” Noah Kagan, co-founder of Gambit (via mixergy interview, 1:00:56) http://bit.ly/XAABC
Tags: angel investor, buyouts, entrepreneurs, investor, M&A, SEC, startups, tender offer, VCs, venture capitalists
