Walker Twitter Highlights: August 22nd – 28th

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, blog posts and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship, startup and corporate law issues, and mergers & acquisitions.

For those of you who missed this week’s Twitter updates, below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly) and two most popular blog-related tweets.  If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here.  Many thanks, Scott

Top 5 Tweets

1. “[T]he average founder of a high-tech startup isn’t a whiz-kid graduate, but a mature 40-year-old engineer….” http://bit.ly/cwV1UE
2. Learning How to Scale [a Website] – the Hard Way: 6 lessons for coders via Steffen Konerow http://bit.ly/bdwgeJ
3. “Fuck banking. Fuck journalism. Fuck everything else. This is what I was born for, I thought.” -@mattmireles http://bit.ly/bWYGbM
4. “If you want to be really good at something, it’s going to involve relentlessly pushing past your comfort zone…” http://bit.ly/aLYSNO
5. Just anwered a question on Quora re choosing a startup lawyer and the Walker business model: http://bit.ly/9rNAQt

Walker Blog-Post Related

1. “The best entrepreneurs are really good at selling people on their company.” -Marc Andreessen (via @eCorner) http://bit.ly/blgFdt
2. “Fully participating preferred is the exception (about 20% of the deals today) – particularly in the Series A round…” http://bit.ly/btJPd9