I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues.  Below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly) for the past week and a couple of blog-related tweets.  If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here.  Cheers, Scott

Top 5 Tweets

1. “Bottom line: If you can’t get past a 7 or 8, you should really quit the samurai/startup business.” -@Jason  bit.ly/wJaxJm
2. “We now have…me-too companies getting funded at outrageous valuations. For most, it will end badly.” -Mike Carusi  on.wsj.com/xD1DCr
3. Why I switched from Ruby back to C++ (interesting post via @chrismdp)  bit.ly/xbYKsB
4. As of Jan 1, 2012, the 100% exclusion (up to $10 million) for “qualified small business stock” is over. Solid memo:  bit.ly/AitT1C
5. “New entrepreneurs would be well served to learn by Jeff Bezos’ example. Smart. Thoughtful. Patient.” -@davidhornik   bit.ly/y1qR39

Walker Blog-Related

1. I just uploaded my new Forbes post: Crowdfunding Bill Stuck in the Senate  bit.ly/zHXCzy
2. New vid post — Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed: Bing Gordon  bit.ly/wMl1dR

Top 5 Tweets

1. “9 times out of 10 [teams] get bogged-down in the process, and they put process over product.” -@joestump   bit.ly/y36SWI (at 35:25)
2. “L.A. is one of the most undiscovered tech hubs in the country.” -@msuster  lat.ms/wE9KDp
3. In case you missed it, here’s my new eBook via @hyperink: The Startup Law Playbook  bit.ly/ufHnYB
4. “You really have to trust your gut…and go out & build it no matter what anyone is telling you.” -@kevinrose   bit.ly/wZV2wQ at 49:30
5. Check out this solid Mixergy interview with our client Nick O’Neill & his candid discussion of mistakes at Holler:  bit.ly/ycjLQY

Walker-Related

1. I just emailed our quarterly newsletter (with firm and industry highlights) via @MailChimp:  bit.ly/xadJQW
2. New motivational vid post: “You Can Do Anything You Want to Do…”  bit.ly/y7gDoI

Top 5 Tweets

1. Quora: What are some signs that someone is going to be a good CEO? My answer:  b.qr.ae/rJgnV1
2. The SEC’s final rule re NET WORTH STANDARD FOR ACCREDITED INVESTORS and the exclusion of primary residence’s value:  1.usa.gov/tcGLpX
3. Learn to Code: A Non-technical Co-founder’s Guide (via@kathrynhough)  bit.ly/tLRCpR
4. 6 Tips for Raising Startup Capital in 2012 via @ericmjackson: “Be sure you’re working with an experienced attorney…”  huff.to/sm5vRz
5. “People have really underappreciated what Groupon has done…” -Marc Andreessen cnet.co/udo6G4

Walker Blog-Related

1. Here are my top ten posts in 2011:  bit.ly/tIrafm
2. New motivational vid post: “Life is Hard. Real Hard. Incredibly Hard.”  bit.ly/w49NiR
3. I just uploaded this short video of Sean Parker giving some solid advice to a couple of entrepreneurs:  bit.ly/u8YZnf

Top 5 Tweets

1. “As an immigrant son of a Washington D.C. cab driver…, this investment has special meaning for me.” -@shervin bit.ly/v5bLAZ
2. “Looking at a lot of companies over many years…, we have some patterns of things that work.” Dana Mead, VC  bit.ly/uxYuEl @32:36
3. “Entrepreneurs are not supposed to be famous…This is not a problem I am supposed to have.” -Sean Parker (@sparker)  nyti.ms/vy8dRE
4. “This is the beginning of the second Internet boom.” -@johndoerr nyti.ms/senPgF
5. I’m reviewing the Startup Act, which was just introduced in the Senate by Senators Moran (R-Kan.) and Warner (D-Va.)  bit.ly/scvnhc

Walker Blog-Related

1. New motivational vid post: “Some of You Love Sleep, More Than You Love Success”  bit.ly/s4TdOC
2. Just posted this old vid of Steve Jobs: “We believe that people with passion can change the world for the better.”  bit.ly/s3PRMZ
3. My VentureBeat post (in case you missed it) — FAQ: What startups should know about the U.S. crowdfunding bill  bit.ly/t2JaUG

Top 5 Tweets

1. “Incubators are designed to reduce risk, while I plan to actively increase risk.” -@mlevchin on.wsj.com/vwmMDi
2. “Think really hard about whether you actually need that business cofounder.” -@jasonfreedman bit.ly/vp68LI
3. Facebook To Bankers: Hands Off Our $10 Billion IPO – “Facebook has gone so far as to craft its own prospectus.” on.wsj.com/suL4jy
4. “Watching an entrepreneur fail is sad, but watching them fail from a lack of nerve is tragic.” -@sgblank bit.ly/umd8Vp
5. “[B]efore I die, I want to take as many swings at the fence as I can.” -@benhuh bit.ly/usjC38

Walker Blog-Related

1. New motivational vid post: “It’s a Lie to Think That You’re Not Good Enough”  bit.ly/uAOnkl
2. New blog post >> Crowdfunding Update: FAQ’s for Entrepreneurs  bit.ly/sg0hEL

Top 5 Tweets

1. “The new status jobs aren’t at Goldman Sachs. They’re at Google, Apple and Facebook.” -former Goldman analyst  nyti.ms/ul8nRR
2. “Zynga should be an example of entrepreneurship at its best…Instead it’s…an [HBS] case study on founder overreach.”  nyti.ms/t9wh2K
3. Great to see in print what I’ve been asking for years: Why are clients paying for associates’ on-the-job training?  nyti.ms/t2XW7F
4. Tide Shifts on Web Start-Ups: “start-ups that sell to businesses are hot again with Silicon Valley investors”  on.wsj.com/taSdEw
5. Skipping the Partner Track for a Shingle of One’s Own (NYTimes) – “lawyers want more control over their futures”  nyti.ms/vxHO6B

Walker Blog-Related

1. New motivational vid post: “A Startup Story”  http://bit.ly/v9UA7w
2. I just uploaded this solid vid clip of Phil Libin (Evernote CEO) via Stanford:  bit.ly/tamy07

Top 5 Tweets

1. I’m really diggin this new docking station for the macbook air that our client infiniwing invented:  t.co/4kClGyzu
2. I didn’t know ProFounder received a cease & desist order as an unregistered broker:  1.usa.gov/sBbLlV.  Startups must be careful.
3. Hedge Fund Manager Sentenced to 5 Yrs: “I slipped into a world of relativism where the ends were justifying any means”  nyti.ms/vYgsaE
4. “For decades, clients have…underwritten the training of new lawyers, paying…$300/hour for…learning on the job.”  t.co/4KLNyiSe
5. “Instead of launching yet another iPhone photo-sharing app, take a look around the globe.” -@elandekel t.co/un9I1Kwp

Walker Blog-Related

1. New motivational vid post for Fri afternoon: “Don’t Give Up”  t.co/pQXImmt7
2. Just uploaded this solid 3-minute vid clip of Brad Feld at Stanford:  t.co/rsPE2ikF

Top 5 Tweets

1. Still trying to understand what the hell Zynga is doing requiring employees to return options or risk termination.  on.wsj.com/rp2RdN
2. “The best founders have…long roadmaps.” -@fredwilson bit.ly/uzkwef
3. YC Interview Advice From a Guy Who Got An Interview and Didn’t Get Accepted – solid post & advice via Nate Hashem  bit.ly/twr6UO
4. Moving to U.S. and Amassing a Fortune, No English Needed (NYTimes) – “The only obstacle I have is if I get too tired.” nyti.ms/uCZw5W
5. “John Doerr famously said…it takes $30mm of losses to train a VC. I am proof of that theory.” -@fredwilson bit.ly/u3EiB3 #humility

Blog-Related

1. In case you missed it, here’s my new post — House Passes Crowdfunding Bill: FAQ’s For Entrepreneurs  bit.ly/v5T4hf
2. New vid post – Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs: “Coffee Is For Closers Only” bit.ly/uT6TVU
3. To help celebrate the 236th birthday of the Marines, I just uploaded this solid, 5-minute vid of Paige Craig:  bit.ly/uv1RO0

Top 5 Tweets

1. “If you’re Zynga’s founder, Mark Pincus, you’re probably doing back flips.” -@MikeDuda nyti.ms/vTnsjW
2. “The president is very smart, but he kept explaining to us reasons why things can’t get done…” -Steve Jobs  on.wsj.com/shhEiv
3. “Luck will always follow your passion.” -@jaltucher tcrn.ch/uTY1GN
4. “I wanted to get as far away from Wall Street as literally and figuratively as possible.” -@tristanwalker cnnmon.ie/w2y950
5. “What most VC’s lack is not brains or rolodex or people skills – but hands-on experience as a startup CEO.” -@sgblank bit.ly/vTzujC

Blog-Related

1. In case you missed, my Legal Checklist for Startups:  bit.ly/vCOTn1
2. My new vid post: “When You Don’t Give Up, You Cannot Fail”  bit.ly/rXAi8R

Top 5 Tweets

1. Quora: “What makes someone an awesome co-founder CTO?” Solid answer via @DavidSacks:  b.qr.ae/v8dvUP
2. “I was on Wall Street two weeks ago, and I’ve been in Silicon Valley this past week. What a contrast!” -Tom Friedman  nyti.ms/pvOaoT
3. “So was [Steve] Jobs smart? Not conventionally. Instead, he was a genius.” -Walter Isaacson  nyti.ms/tWbGDf
4. “It’s surprising how many…who apply [to YC] have a co-founder who’s not willing to quit his or her job.” -@paulg bit.ly/nDKXWk
5. Interesting HN thread: “the #1 cost by a fair margin for virtually every funded software startup will be…employment” bit.ly/nnnwvE

Blog-Related

1. New vid post: “If You Don’t Love It, You’re Going to Fail”  bit.ly/ng8CSz
2. In case you missed it, just uploaded my post on @HuffingtonPost: Raising Capital? 3 Tips for Entrepreneurs – Part 3  bit.ly/poo6hs

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues.  Below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly) for the past week and a couple of blog-related tweets.  If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here.  Cheers, Scott

Top 5 Tweets

1. Quora: “What are the most common mistakes first-time entrepreneurs make?” My answer:  http://b.qr.ae/qmeyVS
2. “One secret to our success that most people don’t really understand is that we are a very large FAMILY.” -@davemcclure b.qr.ae/nh5KPw
3. Wow – pretty brutal RT @jyhsu: Wow super long rant about G+ from a Google engineer (mistakenly shared publicly):  bit.ly/q8ysyb
4. “How many times have you like clicked on some website and thought, ‘What is this startup even for?’” -Paul Graham  amzn.to/nKSWGX p.47
5. “A technical cofounder is not a code monkey.” -@nahurst bit.ly/n2fDAV

Blog-Post Related

1. In case you missed it, just uploaded my VentureBeat post: 3 Ways For Startups To Cut Their Legal Fees in Half  bit.ly/nPSPgS
2. New post: Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed: Joe Gebbia  http://bit.ly/qx11d0

Top 5 Tweets

1. “This was supposed to be my senior year at Princeton…But 3 weeks ago I decided that I wasn’t going…back.” -@jm90403 bit.ly/orVQ6C
2. Interesting (leaked) email from @chamath re Airbnb financing – “never seen a deal like this…& I’m pretty concerned”  bit.ly/nDQEr1
3. To say that I was blown away with what I learned and saw in just a few hours would be an understatement.” -@wadhwa bit.ly/pyGkk2
4. Check out this interesting 2009 email from Sean Parker to the Spotify guys:  scr.bi/q81RTS
5. Steve Jobs’ 1998 interview captured who he was at heart: an artist. “Dylan and Picasso were always risking failure.”  cnnmon.ie/prIX9d

Blog-Post Related

1. In case you missed it, I just uploaded my VentureBeat post: 4 Deadly Legal Mistakes That Startups Make  bit.ly/nx8SUl
2. I love this short video via Les Brown — fun story about his tenacity and resourcefulness (“I was hungry”)  bit.ly/qDb0he
3. We just emailed our quarterly newsletter in which we share recent firm & industry highlights:  bit.ly/roNM1O
4. New vid post: ”No excuses”  bit.ly/nke4H8

Top 5 Tweets

1. An Inside Look at how a VC Evaluates Startups – interesting post via @atweed bit.ly/re6YRy
2. “I pissed blood for years keeping Netflix alive while we figured…shit out.” -@mbrandolph (via @mattmireles)  bit.ly/nnEjGt
3. Why I regret going to TechCrunch Disrupt (via @Openera ) – “Save your cash, Disrupt is dead.” bit.ly/ocSZhr
4. Get ‘Em While They Last: ‘Daily Deal’ Sites Dying Fast (WSJ)- “I shouldn’t have followed the gold rush.”  on.wsj.com/ngaoVu
5. Interesting trademark battle – “Twitter Inc. got beat to ‘tweet,’ and its lawyers are all atwitter about it.”  on.wsj.com/oTiPID

Blog-Post Related

1. I just uploaded this solid, four-minute video (via WSJ): Reid Hoffman’s Five Tips for Start-Ups  bit.ly/qqbhls
2. Here’s my new post on @HuffingtonPost: Raising Capital? 3 Tips for Entrepreneurs (Part 2)  huff.to/r8rUiB

Top 5 Tweets

1. “Life’s too short to work with Dicks.” -@msuster bit.ly/pPjj3w
2. Quora: Which is more crucial to the success of a startup: the idea or the execution? >> some solid responses  b.qr.ae/pufOvr
3. I love this @vacanti post: “two and half years of hustling on no salary. What did we have to show for it? Nothing.”  bit.ly/pHRWDZ
4. Congrats to @fredwilson and his team on their new fund: “Everyone wants in.”  on.wsj.com/rfPTml
5. “You see that arena..? It’s all Mayweather money. Want a hot dog? Mayweather money. Want a T-shirt? Mayweather money.”  nyti.ms/odjCvn

Blog-Post Related

1. New vid post –> Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs: “You Have No Backbone”  bit.ly/qxrdF1
2. In case you missed it, I just uploaded my VentureBeat post: VC Term Sheets – Investors’ Option to Walk  bit.ly/r5Ykju

Top 5 Tweets

1. “Capped convertible notes are a lazy solution for people who don’t want to choose between debt & equity.” -@davidhornik bit.ly/oZkDvH
2. Clawbacks Without Claws – solid reporting re the failure of Sarbanes-Oxley (“a dormant enforcement tool”)  nyti.ms/nDm9qL
3. “that’s the problem with revenues. they can reduce your valuation.” -@fredwilson (comments)  bit.ly/rqXdFZ
4. The $700 Million Yogurt Startup (via Forbes) – “Know what you do and do it better than anybody.”  onforb.es/qA9Mb3
5. “Passion is a second or third order trait.” -@rabois b.qr.ae/oFFlDz

Blog-Post Related

1. New motivational vid post: “You Don’t Want It Bad, You Just Kind of Want It”  bit.ly/nFDMeW
2. New post — Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed: Eric Ries  http://bit.ly/pElutj

Top 5 Tweets

1. “Groupon’s IPO lawyers would never have let this memo go out if they had the opportunity to stop it.” -@StevenDavidoff nyti.ms/n2IqaP
2. “Marc has a view of the entire tech ecosystem that very few people have.” RT @bhorowitz: Nice Economist article on Marc  econ.st/mPbHKn
3. “I am TechCrunch and TechCrunch is me…There’s no way around it.” -@arrington nyti.ms/ppqsDd
4. Welcome to big-firm legal fees: “For his time – one-tenth of a legal hour, or six minutes – Bennett earned $97.50…”  nyti.ms/p9p7gC
5. Incredible must-read for entrepreneurs – Misadventures in VC Funding: The $24 Million Moz Almost Raised (via @randfish)  bit.ly/nzTSZf

Blog-Post Related

1. Just posted one-minute motivational video via Ray Lewis: “I Know Nobody Is Working As Hard As Me”  bit.ly/qO8nVq
2. In case you missed it, I just uploaded my new VentureBeat post: Should I Use My Investor’s Lawyer?  bit.ly/o9vVN1

Top 5 Tweets

1. “I didn’t know there was such a thing as corporate suicide, but now we know that there is.” -Tom Perkins (re: HP)  nyti.ms/qaHff2
2. “The messiest, nastiest big-ball-of-mud code I have seen in my entire career has been in Ruby on Rails projects” -@avdi bit.ly/oVmeTi
3. Jumping the Corporate Ship (WSJ) – “this is my opportunity to try something big”  on.wsj.com/ps5kXZ
4. Exclusive: How Facebook is open-sourcing its data centers and servers – “challenging legacies & starting from scratch”  bit.ly/rkXNvw
5. I’m very impressed with Elizabeth Lin, the CEO and Co-Founder of @launchbit. You can learn more about her here:  bit.ly/qulT6B

Blog-Post Related

1. In case you missed it, here’s my post from Forbes: Doing Deals – 3 Tips for Entrepreneurs (Part 3)  bit.ly/ray1TV
2. Motivational Clips For Entrepreneurs: “Think Different” (A Tribute To Steve Jobs)

Top 5 Tweets

1. “My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.” -Warren Buffett  nyti.ms/rrLud7
2. “People have yet to find the real power that data can do…[W]e’re still stuck in an Excel-driven world.” -@dpatil http://on.wsj.com/nWjoP5
3. “VCs are playing their own game of ‘bubble yes’ or ‘bubble no.’…It’s more like a Ponzi scheme.” -@mcuban on.wsj.com/q1v3Uk
4. When to Make the First Offer in Negotiations – interesting post via Professor Galinsky (from 2004)  bit.ly/p2Pkk0 cc: @jack
5. “One by one, all the things founders dislike about raising money are going to get eliminated.” -Paul Graham  bit.ly/prAYlf

Quora-Related

1. Quora: What deal structure should be in place for a friend/family investment of < 20k in your startup?  b.qr.ae/orDpNw
2. Quora: “What are the common conditions of preferred shares in Silicon Valley with regard to redemption rights?” My answer: b.qr.ae/qmL732

Top 5 Tweets

1. Apple deals massive patent blow to HTC, Android in serious trouble – “severe implications for all Android products”  http://zd.net/qCqlDM
2. “So how do you pick good programmers if you’re not a programmer? I don’t think there’s an answer.” -Paul Graham  http://bit.ly/nnC2DN
3. Google Looks for the Next Google (NYTimes) – “meet founders, even if their start-up idea sounds crazy”  http://nyti.ms/qr6rMx
4. The Eyes of the CFO (PwC M&A report) – “When it comes to modeling, I can make a model say anything it needs to say.”  http://pwc.to/ol8uTL
5. “At a small company with under 10 sales folks, those ‘professional’ sales types are the kiss of death.” -@Jason http://bit.ly/r3GqhD

Walker Blog-Related

1. In case you missed it, I just uploaded my Forbes post: Doing Deals – 3 Tips for Entrepreneurs (Part 2)  http://bit.ly/ruu6ss
2. My new VentureBeat post: What are the rights of minority stockholders?  http://bit.ly/nz1IQZ

Top 5 Tweets

1. “The reasons why Color appears to be imploding…looks like a lesson in the Lean Startup philosophy.” -@marshallk http://rww.to/oMtBvI
2. “If groupons meet the definition of a gift certificate, we feel there may be a violation of the state law.” http://on.wsj.com/pwZX56
3. Law Schools Get Practical – “You’re sending us people who are not in a position to do anything useful for clients.”  http://on.wsj.com/omMzlB
4. “People have told me that I epitomize what’s wrong with entrepreneurs outside the valley. It’s all cool.” -@danshapiro http://bit.ly/mVjQlN
5. The Start-Up of You (via Tom Friedman) – “The old paradigm of climb up a stable career ladder is dead and gone.”  http://nyti.ms/rg58wX

Walker Blog-Related

1. In case you missed it, I just uploaded my Forbes post: Doing Deals – 3 Tips For Entrepreneurs (Part 1)  http://bit.ly/nuUrP4
2. New vid post: Do It  http://bit.ly/rn1GAh

Top 5 Tweets

1. “Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook.” -Marc Andreessen  http://nyti.ms/o0trUE
2. “[M]ore than 40 presentations trying to raise capital, with no luck…then we got a call from…Shenzhen.”  http://nyti.ms/qEstsX
3. “The most common mistake is to pivot too late. You have sunk costs. You get sort of married to your project.” -@cdixon bit.ly/mTay17
4. “Working at Airbnb is like a really fun school where you get paid…Or maybe it’s more like camp.” -@jgebbia http://on.wsj.com/ngNkE9
5. Road to Riches: Zynga’s Path to IPO – interesting infographic  http://bit.ly/pDsciB

Walker Blog-Related

1. In case you missed it, here’s my post regarding redemption rights in a VC term sheet:  http://bit.ly/og8Gqj
2. My new Forbes post: Doing Deals – 3 Tips for Entrepreneurs (Part 2)  http://onforb.es/nptWAu

Top 5 Tweets

1. “I’d take a list of hacking projects over a CS degree any day.” -@Harjeet http://bit.ly/jh91dx
2. Zynga IPO: “an unusual triple-class…structure that will allow…Pincus to keep tight control over voting power”  http://on.wsj.com/mieAYT
3. Kudos to @jack: simply amazing what he’s accomplished at Square (& Twitter). “Known for putting in 20-hour days.”  http://on.wsj.com/ivpeJ6
4. “When we read Y Combinator applications there are always ideas we’re hoping to see.” -@paulg http://bit.ly/lI4b7Q
5. “Most often I am only interested in an idea if it’s going to get hundreds of millions of users.” -Reid Hoffman  http://on.wsj.com/jBaAQf

Walker Blog-Related

1. My new post on Forbes: Doing Deals – 3 Tips for Entrepreneurs  http://onforb.es/k2cw9T
2. Here’s our Q2 newsletter, welcoming Howard Kern to our LA office and featuring @appendTo:  http://bit.ly/iowx54