Walker Twitter Highlights: July 2nd – 15th
by Scott Edward Walker on July 16th, 2012I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly) for the past two weeks and a few blog-related tweets. If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here. Cheers, Scott
Top 5 Tweets
- Q: When a founder is already worth a billion dollars, why would they need…Venture Capital for a new start-up? A: http://b.qr.ae/NgQXEd
- Solid interview of @SebastianThrun (Udacity) by @Jason: “Learning is so much fun if you do it yourself.” (at 10:45) http://bit.ly/L0EKVx
- Goldman Sachs & the $580 Million Black Hole – rule #1: cash is king. rule #2: don’t rely on ibankers for diligence. http://nyti.ms/NpKEzl
- Interesting chart re VC investments by industry for Q1: http://bit.ly/OHJJr9
- Solid tips re funding: “You need an intro from someone sitting between the founders & the investors.” –@DerekjAndersen http://tcrn.ch/OH6P0T
Blog-Related
- New motivational vid post: “How Bad Do You Want It?” http://bit.ly/PmUSSR
- I just uploaded this interesting vid of Ev Williams from 2008: http://bit.ly/PRwom7
- New motivational vid post: “You Just Have to Keep Going, Believing You Will Make It” http://bit.ly/M7OkWc
Tags: diligence, Ev Williams, founder, founders, funding, ibankers, investors, start-up, startups, Twitter Highlights, Udacity, vc, venture capital