Walker Twitter Highlights: October 18th – 25th

by Scott Edward Walker on October 25th, 2009

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. How High Will Real-Time Search Fly? (NYTimes): “We have no idea how much you can make off of real-time search.” http://bit.ly/1iYFih 17 minutes ago   
  2. The Six Sins of M&A – solid podcast by Jack Welch, the master, and his wife Suzy; “deal heat” (emotions) is my favorite http://bit.ly/E4whX about 1 hour ago 
  3. RT @msuster: Be Aware of #VC Seagulls – they fly in, shit on you, then fly away http://bit.ly/1cFXMc; see also #1 here: http://bit.ly/10eiiN about 2 hours ago 
  4. Interview with Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO: “you don’t know where the best ideas are going to come from in the organization” http://bit.ly/2AaIZa about 3 hours ago  
  5. Tony Hsieh On Delivering Happiness: “the biggest source of revenue for Zappos is word of mouth, [plus] repeat sales” http://bit.ly/3IqOAL about 16 hours ago  
  6. Craig Barrett: “There is no underestimating the value of a single smart idea; it can take on the largest corporation.” http://bit.ly/33Mss6 about 17 hours ago  
  7. Very interesting RT @TechCrunch: Startup School: An Interview With Mark Zuckerberg http://bit.ly/32dUjc by @jasonkincaid about 19 hours ago  
  8. Never Say “VC” – interesting post by Dave Troy: “Every VC-backed valley startup is an outsourced R&D play.” http://bit.ly/2XG7PE about 22 hours ago  
  9. “Virtual goods and microtransactions, especially inside games, can be a very big…business.” Ethan Beard (Facebook) http://bit.ly/3k4g5Y 9:24 AM Oct 24th  
  10. Interesting post by Chris Dixon (see also my comment re East Coast vs. West Coast) RT @cdixon: Twelve months notice http://bit.ly/2CGQrGst 10:04 PM Oct 23rd  
  11. Solid deck RT @TechCrunch: Sean Parker’s Rise of Facebook And Twitter, Fall Of Google (Full Slide Deck) http://bit.ly/2UpRUo by @parislemon 5:58 PM Oct 23rd  
  12. David Packard: “A great company is more likely to die of indigestion (from too much opportunity) than starvation (from too little).” 2:37 PM Oct 23rd  
  13. Audio Podcast: The Future of Angel Investing (via Frank Peters) – interesting panel, including Bill Payne & Dave Berkus http://bit.ly/jf2ny 2:34 PM Oct 23rd  
  14. SEC Announces Nov. 19 Small Business Forum: “a platform…to highlight…impediments to the capital-raising process” http://bit.ly/3qmVNe 12:46 PM Oct 23rd   
  15. 11 tips for the VC pitch via Satya Patel, including interesting deck: “Don’t talk to strangers” http://bit.ly/BoH6411:35 AM Oct 23rd from TweetDeck  
  16. RT @venturehacks: An oldy but goody from ex-VC Bill Burnham: “Understanding Why Your VC Is Acting Crazy”, http://j.mp/1nswtZ.10:03 AM Oct 23rd
  17. Solid video interview of Jared Kim, the founder of WeGame.com and a young, smart entrepreneur, by @AndrewWarner: http://bit.ly/4l89Zt 8:59 AM Oct 23rd
  18. Carlyle Group’s David Rubenstein on the future of private equity (via CNBC video): “you don’t have to have leverage” http://bit.ly/LZWrp 8:23 AM Oct 23rd
  19. Solid post by Andy Wilson: “Entrepreneurs need to accept that capital will be much scarcer for quite some time.” http://bit.ly/2w015I 9:23 PM Oct 22nd
  20. Eric Ries: “[F]ocus on building companies that matter, on creating real value for customers, and learning.” http://bit.ly/2T3wyZ 7:55 PM Oct 22nd
  21. Sean Parker: Twitter/Facebook Will Soon Dominate The Web – Not Google (via @TechCrunch): “network services” r “next-up” http://bit.ly/3SMJCT 5:05 PM Oct 22nd 
  22. Advent’s Brooke Blasts PE Industry For Over-Leveraging: “[The] cheap debt has really bastardized the industry.” http://bit.ly/45ddKm 1:43 PM Oct 22nd
  23. Diapers.com Walking In Zappos’ Shoes (just raised $30MM) – “It’s as much a logistics play as a front-end play.” http://bit.ly/4cJcTU 11:32 AM Oct 22nd
  24. Auto racing and start-ups aren’t that different, really (via entrepreneur Will Herman) “you steer where you’re looking” http://bit.ly/6iDBX 10:49 AM Oct 22nd 
  25. PricewaterhouseCoopers Survey Indicates Divestiture Market is Poised for Increased Activity: “clearly a buyer’s market” http://bit.ly/2cDnov 10:26 AM Oct 22nd 
  26. M&A: Behind the Boom in Unsolicited Bids: “cash. . . and weakened takeover defenses [are] fueling the action” http://bit.ly/3SjPcQ 8:42 AM Oct 22nd 
  27. Sheryl Sandberg: “What we see at Facebook is that there’s a shift going on from information economy to the social web.” http://bit.ly/2HQ7GF 9:25 PM Oct 21st 
  28. Sequoia’s Curious Investment In First Republic Bank – “linking up with private equity firms . . . in a buyout deal” http://bit.ly/3HllT 8:15 PM Oct 21st  
  29. SEC Proposes Rules on Dark Pools: “measures intended to [give] investors a clearer view of stock prices and liquidity” http://bit.ly/15rHWv 4:33 PM Oct 21st  
  30. Behind the Re-Emergence of SPACs – “SPACs are back in the news [because] they are on a literal death march.” http://bit.ly/35xKdX 3:34 PM Oct 21st  
  31. Do Buyouts (Still) Create Value? – interesting paper analyzing a sample of 192 LBOs completed between 1990 and 2006 http://bit.ly/4eYPBM 11:45 AM Oct 21st  
  32. How to Attract a Killer Advisory Board (via @wilschroter): “You need your cool kid to make the party worth attending.” http://bit.ly/3mQM5M 9:11 AM Oct 21st 
  33. Twitter’s Chief Talks About Lists, Traffic and Revenue: “[W]e’re not that worried about extracting value for ourselves” http://bit.ly/1qX9UU 7:54 AM Oct 21st 
  34. “Starting a startup is hard, but having a 9 to 5 job is hard too, and in some ways a worse kind of hard.” Paul Graham http://bit.ly/2NPctq 9:15 PM Oct 20th   
  35. Q&A With Michael Wolfe, Who Is Back With Benchmark Capital: “the IT industry gets torn up and reinvented every 10 yrs” http://bit.ly/2lgiuf 7:00 PM Oct 20th 
  36. Solid video interview of Ali Brown by @AndrewWarner: “[Y]ou really do have to try to…open up to other people online.” http://bit.ly/1FiyCh 4:18 PM Oct 20th
  37. Venture Investment Increases for Some: “For brand new start-ups, it is harder than ever to raise venture capital.” http://bit.ly/3U4VVK 2:36 PM Oct 20th
  38. Here is our latest blog post – “Buying a Distressed Business: Ten Tips for Entrepreneurs” – http://bit.ly/2S2R0E 8:25 AM Oct 20th 
  39. Venture Investment Increases for Some: “For brand new start-ups, it is harder than ever to raise venture capital.” http://bit.ly/3U4VVK 2:36 PM Oct 20th
  40. Rajaratnam Case Is ‘Wake-Up Call’ for Silicon Valley Companies: “they must…understand the rules of insider trading” http://bit.ly/4omFSq 7:50 AM Oct 20th
  41. Decision May Help Revive Management Buyouts: “this case subtly clears the way for. . . management-affiliated buyouts” http://bit.ly/3jylyE 2:40 PM Oct 19th
  42. Most Active Venture Capital Investors Through 3Q – “some established venture firms still have plenty of firepower” http://bit.ly/2cXsCh 11:44 AM Oct 19th
  43. Private Equity Returns Down 30% – “The worst seems to be over. . . , but a 30% decline leaves a long road to recovery.” http://bit.ly/4FClzW 7:48 AM Oct 19th
  44. KaChing Aims to Shake Up the Mutual Fund Industry – investors include Andy Rachleff, Marc Andreessen and Kevin Compton http://bit.ly/2vZ8ie 9:35 PM Oct 18th
  45. Foursquare: Not Just a Game, But a City Guide: “getting people to do something they haven’t done before” Dennis Crowley http://bit.ly/3AoUUD 6:30 PM Oct 18th
  46. Paul Graham (1/07): “[T]he less energy people expend on performance, the more they expend on appearances to compensate.” http://bit.ly/9Za9A 5:24 PM Oct 18th 
  47. Some Complexities of Venture Capital Seed Investing – solid post by Brad Feld; see also my comment re convertible notes: http://bit.ly/eFiJT 12:38 PM Oct 18th
  48. Carol Bartz, CEO: “A lot of it is just…picking people so much better than you are, and involving them in a decision.” http://bit.ly/1IbzEC 10:33 AM Oct 18th
  49. Deal Certainty — The Fallacy of a New Market: a new paradigm for basic deal certainty terms is “overly simplistic” http://bit.ly/40uxEH 9:21 AM Oct 18th 
  50. When It Rains Roaches (NYTimes): “focus on something [you are] passionate and obsessive about….the job is more fun.” http://bit.ly/3e7mTp 8:43 AM Oct 18th 

 

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