Walker Twitter Highlights: June 20th – 26th
by Scott Edward Walker on June 27th, 2011I’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. If you missed this past week’s Twitter updates, below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly) and my 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
- Thanks to @arrington and others, there are alternatives to crap like this: http://bit.ly/mxkFyL
- The $32,000 Startup – “The notion that website founders need computer programming backgrounds is outdated.” –@wadhwa http://buswk.co/kLB52K
- “Out of $946 million that Groupon raised…last winter, $810 million went into the pockets of the [founders]…” http://nyti.ms/kLcQsm
- “Practically every really big startup could say, 5 years later, ‘believe it or not, we started out doing ___’.” –@paulg http://bit.ly/kOWElX
- Foursquare Raises…Capital – “They’ve already had acquisition offers for more than the valuation.” –@bhorowitz http://on.wsj.com/lNdX5N
Walker Blog-Related
- “[I]n a world of easy access to online documents, it is often…legal compliance which is overlooked by founders….” http://bit.ly/m47e0Z
- My new post on Huffington Post: Raising Capital? 3 Tips for Entrepreneurs http://huff.to/jgbERE
- Just posted Mark Suster’s recent keynote at the Founder Showcase – very solid (and entertaining) http://bit.ly/mB0SCG
- “In the ideal seed round, half of it is done by a single investor who you trust…” -Naval Ravikant http://bit.ly/iowBLD
Tags: entrepreneurs, Founder Showcase, foursquare, groupon, launch a startup, raising capital, seed round, startup