Walker Twitter Highlights: October 11th – 17th

by Scott Edward Walker on October 17th, 2009

For those of you who do not follow Walker Corporate Law Group (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. All This Anger Against the Rich May Be Unhealthy (NYTimes): “To revile the rich is to revile the American dream.” http://bit.ly/CtQDL 14 minutes ago       
  2. Business idea: “If everybody believes it’s true, the value has been extracted from it.” Greg Papadopoulos, CTO http://bit.ly/3bBuXa (34:30) about 1 hour ago     
  3. Chinese Company Is Near First Deal to Buy Stake in Oil Drilling Leases in Gulf of Mexico – “still a hangover from Unocal” http://bit.ly/4v9phw about 1 hour ago     
  4. Must read – significant issue RT @TechCrunch: Beware The Reverse Brain Drain To India And China http://bit.ly/42d8Gb by Guest Author about 4 hours ago     
  5. VC Funding On Pace For First Sub-$20B Year Since 1998 – No VCs “were willing to toss out the word ‘recovery’.” http://bit.ly/3XnXuj about 13 hours ago    
  6. The Earnout Fallout – good piece by Jeffrey Katz of BDO http://bit.ly/43cEn6. I discuss additional issues in para #7 here: http://bit.ly/1nPKx about 19 hours ago
  7. Are VC And Buyout Firms Finally Shaking Hands? (Part II): “you have to be realistic about how much a company is worth” http://bit.ly/2HEGXl about 19 hours ago  
  8. Audio Podcast: Responsible Engineering in the Modern Age – very interesting talk by Greg Papadopoulos, Sun’s CTO http://bit.ly/3bBuXa about 22 hours ago 
  9. Solid deck and vid RT @davemcclure: RT @fbfund “Incubator 2.0: A Silicon Valley Success Story (StartupVisa.com)” http://bit.ly/Lde9W about 23 hours ago      
  10. Private Equity Business Model Is Called Broken: “People won’t commit funds for 10 years where credit is not available.” http://bit.ly/4eX3KO about 24 hours ago  
  11. M&A Practitioners Panel Discusses Delaware Takeover Cases – interesting video discussion of Delaware M&A case law http://bit.ly/CQJZC 8:31 AM Oct 16th
  12. Excellent, thought-provoking video interview of Mark Goulston, business advisor and author, by Jason Calacanis on TWiST: http://bit.ly/5FxcI 9:49 PM Oct 15th 
  13. What Cisco’s “Tribes” Look For In Start-Ups: “The biggest driver of failure in M&A is the cultural fit or lack thereof” http://bit.ly/1It26j 5:21 PM Oct 15th   
  14. Why I Don’t Like Board Observers – solid post from Mark Suster; also watch out for attorney-client privilege issues. http://bit.ly/2AI6jX 4:30 PM Oct 15th
  15. SEC, CFTC mull joint enforcement squad: sources – “an effort to end a turf fight over market jurisdiction” http://bit.ly/unABp 1:33 PM Oct 15th 
  16. Solid podcast interview of MarketWatch founder Larry Kramer by @venturevoice – “Content is still king.” http://bit.ly/29zYO5 11:55 AM Oct 15th 
  17. Study Highlights Recent Trends in M&A Deal Terms – excellent analysis of public M&A deal terms from my ABA Committee http://bit.ly/3CzErm 9:17 AM Oct 15th   
  18. How Start-Ups Attract Corporate Acquirers – And How They Blow: recommended set of steps from a group of tech execs http://bit.ly/3gzpk5 6:22 PM Oct 14th  
  19. M&A Break Fees: US Litigation vs. UK Regulation – interesting paper posted by John Coates of the Harvard Law School – http://bit.ly/3sw3Rt 5:06 PM Oct 14th  
  20. Audio Podcast: Retooling Early Stage Development (10/1/08) – very solid advice from Steve Blank (know the customer) http://bit.ly/DoUDY 2:44 PM Oct 14th  
  21. EA’s Schappert Foresees Social Gaming Consolidation – “We’re not a make-a-game-and-forget-about-it culture anymore.” http://bit.ly/1puQ2p 1:42 PM Oct 14th 
  22. The Peculiarities of Tender Offers – tender offers are “changing the way that transactions are accomplished” http://bit.ly/VES7r 12:06 PM Oct 14th  
  23. Democrats Plan New Push to Tax Buyout Firm Executives – “strong support for taxing carried interest as ordinary income” http://bit.ly/OnRp5 9:52 AM Oct 14th  
  24. Blackstone Sees “More Than Green Shoots”: “now is an excellent time to purchase stable businesses in developed markets” http://bit.ly/3BX7rw 8:40 AM Oct 14th  
  25. This is what will save our economy RT @gamearchitect: America’s Best Young Entrepreneurs 2009: http://bit.ly/3wDCEw 8:08 AM Oct 14th  
  26. Good summary of brutal year RT @SecuritiesD: Fiscal Year 2009: The SEC’s Year from Hell http://bit.ly/UD1Gz 8:02 AM Oct 14th   
  27. Still Hoping to Sell Music by the Month – “a new batch of entrepreneurs” trying to sell monthly subscriptions http://bit.ly/190tgK 10:01 PM Oct 13th  
  28. Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy (Paul Graham 10/08): “they succeed or fail based on the qualities of the founders” http://bit.ly/682T 8:28 PM Oct 13th  
  29. Nasdaq Progressing On New Private-Market Exchange: a place “where private company shareholders could sell their stock” http://bit.ly/lYmQM 7:33 PM Oct 13th 
  30. Should Your Startup Have an Advisory Board? – solid, practical post from Mark Suster, a smart “Entrepreneur turned VC” http://bit.ly/3IjtVL 7:06 PM Oct 13th  
  31. New York AG Posts Letter regarding Waiver of BofA Attorney-Client Privilege http://bit.ly/1ajtAH; see also NYT article: http://bit.ly/oEEo1 1:05 PM Oct 13th   
  32. Here’s our latest blog post: Jason Calacanis and John Dilts Should Have a Live Debate – re angel groups charging fees http://bit.ly/hAYeu 8:50 AM Oct 13th   
  33. Figuring out the true cost of complying with California regulations – interesting LATimes article – http://bit.ly/17LN2y 7:48 AM Oct 13th   
  34. RT @SteveCase: Facebook and Twitter’s Growth Flattens http://bit.ly/qsMNT (via @mashable) 6:25 AM Oct 13th   
  35. The Founder Institute’s Adeo Ressi on his plans to leave no entrepreneur behind – brief interview via VentureBeat http://bit.ly/1RqACO 7:10 PM Oct 12th  
  36. The DealBook Dialogue Round-Up: solid summary – “solving the problems [requires] making fundamental economic changes.” http://bit.ly/4D0J0y 3:44 PM Oct 12th
  37. RT @neilpatel: “Don’t be afraid to make mistakes; if you don’t make mistakes, you’re not reaching far enough.” – David Packard 11:58 AM Oct 12th   
  38. Angel Group Likes Lights, Camera And Action Of Indie Films – interesting piece re SV group that backs film productions http://bit.ly/3cZ3ZM 11:58 AM   
  39. Failures of Small Banks Grow, Straining F.D.I.C. – “a bank that is teetering on collapse is not going to lend” http://bit.ly/cY8DR 9:56 AM Oct 12th  
  40. Closing the Deal at the Virtual Checkout Counter: “[t]hese strategies get people to fear…they will regret not acting” http://bit.ly/2dXNGQ 9:02 AM Oct 12th  
  41. Solid video interview by @AndrewWarner of Maria Spika (Linqia)- she discusses her successes and journey to find herself  http://bit.ly/BxIz0 8:22 PM Oct 11th  
  42. Interesting post RT @charlesyeo: Facebook Soars, MySpace Shrinks and Twitter Slows http://ow.ly/tRI9 6:58 PM Oct 11th 
  43. The Origin, Application, Validity, and Potential Misuse of Rule 10b5-1 – interesting paper re SEC insider trading rules http://bit.ly/c0ttz 5:09 PM Oct 11th  
  44. A Fundraising Survival Guide – excellent essay from Paul Graham (8/08) – “raising money… is harder than selling” http://bit.ly/2LUDjV1:46 PM Oct 11th   
  45. Audio Podcast: Innovation in a Disruptive Environment – very interesting speech and Q&A by Steve Jurvetson, a smart VC http://bit.ly/WpcdW 9:58 AM Oct 11th  
  46. The C.E.O. as General (and Scout) – solid NYT interview of James Rogers : “push. . . people out of their comfort zone” http://bit.ly/QQtAP 8:58 AM Oct 11th   

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