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. Solid video interview of Lynda Weinman (founder of Lynda.com) by @AndrewWarner – chock full of lessons 4 entrepreneurs http://bit.ly/2k9MWH 14 minutes ago  
2. G.M. Is to Sell Hummer to a Chinese Company – “an important expansion for the Chinese auto industry . . . ” http://bit.ly/1ljlCc about 1 hour ago 
3. The Importance Of ‘Crazy Ideas’ To A Successful VC Firm: “[we] invest in things that most people think are crazy ideas” http://bit.ly/2W6nF about 16 hours ago 
4. Stanford’s Sales List May Include Sequoia and Kleiner: “offering stakes in VC funds run by its Silicon Valley neighbors” http://bit.ly/vyw98 about 18 hours ago 
5. Venture Firms Making Bets On Forex Start-Ups – “there are … between 1MM and 3MM professional foreign exchange traders” http://bit.ly/YdSpY about 20 hours ago
6. Check out Episode Lucky #13 of “The Founders” – Bean Town TechStars! http://bit.ly/11y2Kq about 21 hours ago 
7. RT @neilpatel: “Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.” – John F. Kennedyabout 22 hours ago 
8. Looking at the Crisis and Chrysler’s Rebound – interesting commentary by Corinne Ball, lead counsel to Chrysler – http://bit.ly/SEw9G about 23 hours ago from
9. Outsourcing Isn’t a Problem for Silicon Valley But Is for Detroit: solid post from Andy Rappaport of August Capital http://bit.ly/14WzFo about 24 hours ago
10. For Potshots at Bankruptcy, It’s Miller Time – reorg wiz rips into BK process: “clumsy tool” “too slow” “too expensive” http://bit.ly/OATR3 8:28 AM Oct 9th from  
11. SEC Solicits Comments on Draft Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2010 through 2015 – interesting 53-page draft here: http://bit.ly/xVqRh 9:52 PM Oct 8th
12. Nice podcast tribute by Frank Peters (10/1) to Luis Villalobos, TechCoast Angels founder: “a great mentor [&] coach” http://bit.ly/jf2ny 9:15 PM Oct 8th 
13. Paul Kedrosky: Why I Love Venture Capitalists – “Creating a successful startup is among the hardest things you can do…” http://bit.ly/IMH6H 8:33 PM Oct 8th
14. Accounting for New M&A Standards – “companies face [challenges] when accounting for partial acquisitions and disposals” http://bit.ly/Pxm8g 5:04 PM Oct 8th 
15. Video and presentation deck – outstanding stuff RT @TechCrunch Startups 101: The Complete Mint Presentation http://bit.ly/tJ1Ve 3:13 PM Oct 8th
16. Revisiting Entrepreneurs Who Ride the Economic Waves – “It’s all about having fun.” http://bit.ly/AKTzX 1:23 PM Oct 8th 
17. Solid compilation of prior blog posts by @chrisbrogan RT @neilpatel: Recipes for the Modern Business – http://bit.ly/VZlg1 11:54 AM Oct 8th 
18. VCs Look Beyond Wall Street’s Short-Term Mindedness – “Wall Street [caters] to high-frequency trading accounts” http://bit.ly/3ysh4m11:47 AM Oct 8th 
19. Sense of Ownership Can Improve Accountability – solid commentary from David Sorkin (general counsel at Kohlberg Kravis) http://bit.ly/T85OA 9:58 AM Oct 8th 
20. PE Lobbyists Throw VCs Under the Bus – “Buyout shops and hedge funds argue that it’s not just sour grapes on their part” http://bit.ly/nnT4D 10:07 PM Oct 7th
21. Next Global Crisis Won’t Look Like the Last – solid commentary from Lee Meyerson (senior partner at Simpson Thacher) http://bit.ly/4dC7wZ 1:58 PM Oct 7th 
22. The Inevitability of Finance – interesting commentary: “It is time that America realized the value of finance.” http://bit.ly/2Aui4G 11:06 AM Oct 7th 
23. H. Rodgin Cohen on the State of Bank M&A – banks will not do deals “until they have their own problems under control” http://bit.ly/3w76xj 10:07 AM Oct 7th 
24. Very Nice Terms, Says Sabet of Boxee Round – brief vid of Bijan Sabet: “good startups are still able to get deals done” http://bit.ly/d3AYH 8:30 AM Oct 7th 
25. Paralysis in Debt Markets Deepens Credit Drought – “loans needed to secure a lasting economic recovery…remain elusive” http://bit.ly/ul9Fo 7:52 AM Oct 7th 
26. Interesting podcast interview of Jeff Cohn of MHS Capital by Frank Peters (9/30) – “it’s so hard to pick the winners” http://bit.ly/jf2ny 8:18 PM Oct 6th 
27. Start-Ups Aim to Transform Visits to the Doctor – “[trying] to change the way doctors and patients interact” http://bit.ly/qPwPI 5:41 PM Oct 6th 
28. McGuire Goes To Bat For Venture-Fund Exemption – “We’ve proven to be good citizens,” said NVCA Chairman Terry McGuire. http://bit.ly/ootuS 3:40 PM Oct 6th 
29. How Do We Avoid Another Crisis? – solid commentary by Jonathan Knee (smart ibanker and author) http://bit.ly/25yv0 11:55 AM Oct 6th 
30. J.P. Morgan Issues M&A Holdback Escrow Report – Buyers beware: 40% of the deals had claims filed against the escrow – http://bit.ly/3MumCO 8:36 AM Oct 6th 
31. An Executive Who Ruled From Afar and Walked Away Rich – “he spent a great deal of time wooing clients from his…yacht” http://bit.ly/z8U5v 9:33 PM Oct 5th 
32. OneRiot finds $7M Series C – http://bit.ly/A5Y9B; again, solid recent video interview of OneRiot CEO Kimbal Musk here: http://bit.ly/9r7sG 6:09 PM Oct 5th 
33. Interesting video re Marc Drier, my former colleague (when I was a jr assoc at a big NYC firm) RT@SecuritiesD: 60 Minutes Video: Marc Dreier, the Swindler http://bit.ly/bywS 11:39 AM Oct 5th 
34. Too Much Trust, Too Little Worry (via Howard Marks) “fear of loss is to capitalism as fear of hell is to Catholicism” http://bit.ly/Lbiq9 11:12 AM Oct 5th 
35. Profits for Buyout Firms as Company Debt Soared – “what [they] did at Simmons…mimicked the subprime mortgage boom” http://bit.ly/3tuRU6 9:43 AM Oct 5th 
36. John Thain: It’s ‘Unfortunate That the American Dream Has Been Demonized’ – interesting video remarks and Q&A at Wharton http://bit.ly/gYTCW 8:14 AM Oct 5th 
37. Solid video interview of Ben Huh by Andrew Warner – “There is a class of people like me who are born entrepreneurs.” http://bit.ly/ip634 10:03 PM Oct 4th 
38. Excerpt from the “Deal Professor’s” new book “Gods at War: Shotgun Takeovers . . . and the Private Equity Implosion”: http://bit.ly/17MNGO 8:29 PM Oct 4th 
39. 3 Sales Tips for Startups: Creating a Burning Platform – good, practical advice from Mark Suster, entrepreneur-turned VC http://bit.ly/CrFKC 6:30 PM Oct 4th 
40. Want to Talk to the Chief? Book Your Half-Hour (NYT) “a really useful way to kind of access the engineers’ real ideas” http://bit.ly/1AIUJT 4:05 PM Oct 4th 
41. Little Rooms, Big Profits – interesting NYTimes piece re Sam Chang, the hotel king of NY – “I went to homemade college” http://bit.ly/T4rkI12:06 PM Oct 4th 
42. Gridiron to Digital Grid “a real reminder of the hard work and perseverance I learned growing up on a farm” http://bit.ly/QoKh5 10:10 AM Oct 4th