WALKER CORPORATE LAW GROUP, PLLC

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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1. Fall 2009 Quarter Roundup: What Did We Learn? (podcast via @ecorner) – solid analysis by serial entrepreneur Steve Blank http://bit.ly/qbJEu
2. Are You a Tigger, or an Eeyore? – interesting interview of Mindy Grossman, chief executive of HSN Inc. (via NYTimes) http://bit.ly/4buu1Q
3. Noncompetition Agreements – interesting paper by Mark Garmaise of UCLA (via Harvard Law School) http://bit.ly/9D8×3
4. The search for auspiciousness – interesting article via The Deal re private equity firms investing in China http://bit.ly/3qPOJR
5. The worst things startups do – solid post and video interview of the Posterous founders via @scobleizer http://bit.ly/3jT6Lr
6. Why Didn’t Pownce Trounce Twitter? – solid video interview of Leah Culver (a smart, fun developer) via @AndrewWarner http://bit.ly/31n3mG
7. Podcast interview with Craig Mundie, chief research officer for Microsoft (via Mercury News 11/11/08) – very interesting http://bit.ly/q9vUD
8. What the Sponsors Saw (Deal Magazine) – good summary and charts of mid-market private equity deal flow http://bit.ly/owo2T
9. When A Call From Maine Leads To A $9M Funding In Florida – “Sometimes cold calls do pay off – even in venture capital.” http://bit.ly/6GFNL
10. Waiting to exhale (via Deal Magazine) – solid analysis of middle-market M&A space – “Most buyers are back now.” http://bit.ly/41Uyo6
11. Solid podcast (via Wharton) – Entrepreneur Elon Musk: Why It’s Important to Pinch Pennies on the Road to Riches http://bit.ly/1hnZWY
12. Some M&A Survey Stats – 49% of respondents were involved in a deal that didn’t close primarily due to financing or a MAC http://bit.ly/2cLqG4  
13. “Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch – interesting post via Steve Blank http://bit.ly/3svMHE
14. VC-Backed Companies Could Be Next On H-P’s Shopping List – “HP’s chief executive, Mark Hurd, ’showed his hand’.” http://bit.ly/2Qqu05
15. The Confetti Machine Returns to Nasdaq – “It’s been a healthy couple months,” said NASDAQ CEO Robert Greifeld. http://bit.ly/VcNMi
16. Playdom Investor Tim Chang On Why Social Gaming Is Hot – interesting brief interview (via WSJ) http://bit.ly/4lOgND
17. The i2-JDA Deal: Will History Repeat Itself? – interesting analysis of the JDA acquisition (“just too complex”) http://bit.ly/3GCI1q
18. Solid RT @venturehacks: How to pick a co-founder: http://j.mp/2X7K4s. A new post on Venture Hacks by Naval Ravikant (@naval)
19. For Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, failure is an option (VentureBeat) – solid quotes from Max Levchin and Mark Pincus http://bit.ly/4drPQ2
20. 4 MORE ways to get automatically rejected by an angel investor – solid post via Jason Cohen (an angel investor) http://bit.ly/bj9UC
21. Timing Kraft’s Race for Cadbury – interesting distinctions between the U.S. and British takeover systems http://bit.ly/2eJeRc
22. Start-Up CEOs Gripe About VCs’ Lack Of Operating Experience – according to a recent survey conducted by the NVCA http://bit.ly/230UZl
23. Solid video interview of Mark Suster, entrepreneur turned VC, by @AndrewWarner – a must see for entrepreneurs http://bit.ly/vNnbP
24. Interesting, brief video interviews (via Bloomberg) re Bear Stearns fraud case – did the prosecution drop the ball? http://bit.ly/298lHI
25. Q&A With Accel Partners About AdMob & Playfish – interesting interview with Rich Wong and Kevin Comolli of Accel http://bit.ly/2ZZiMd
26. Morgan Stanley’s Kelleher Says ‘Resurgent’ M&A Possible in 2010 (via Bloomberg) – “Our backlogs are strong.” http://bit.ly/sYbKn
27. Dennis Crowley (foursquare): “[We] are building software that changes the way people experience their Friday nights.” http://bit.ly/1NH3fL
28. Running a startup outside of the Valley – “there are some real advantages to being headquartered beyond the bubble” http://bit.ly/1ZDKJZ
29. Portfolio Company CEOs: An IPO’s Worst Enemy?: They “don’t want the scrutiny & regulation that goes with being public” http://bit.ly/4nbDz2
30. “If you don’t make failure acceptable, you can’t have original and unique.” Jeffrey Katzenberg http://bit.ly/1OgN7E
31. Fixing Public Markets ‘Systemic Dysfunction’ – we must “recreate the feeder system of small-cap public companies.” http://bit.ly/1Iwndj
32. Google bets big on mobile advertising in $750-million acquisition of AdMob (via LATimes) http://bit.ly/2HJJYU
33. Regulatory Competition, Choice of Forum, and Delaware’s Stake in Corporate Law – interesting paper via Faith Stevelman http://bit.ly/3iuxqb  
34. An End Game for the Forever War? The battle among CF Industries, Terra Industries and Agrium “looks near a conclusion” http://bit.ly/Kxogx
35. Reid Hoffman on why he joined Greylock (via The Deal) – “We both believe that the key thing is the entrepreneur.” http://bit.ly/2jpt45

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