Walker Twitter Highlights: August 22nd – 28th
by Scott Edward Walker on August 29th, 2010I’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
- “[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
- Learning How to Scale [a Website] – the Hard Way: 6 lessons for coders via Steffen Konerow http://bit.ly/bdwgeJ
- “Fuck banking. Fuck journalism. Fuck everything else. This is what I was born for, I thought.” -@mattmireles http://bit.ly/bWYGbM
- “If you want to be really good at something, it’s going to involve relentlessly pushing past your comfort zone…” http://bit.ly/aLYSNO
- Just anwered a question on Quora re choosing a startup lawyer and the Walker business model: http://bit.ly/9rNAQt
Walker Blog-Post Related
- “The best entrepreneurs are really good at selling people on their company.” -Marc Andreessen (via @eCorner) http://bit.ly/blgFdt
- “Fully participating preferred is the exception (about 20% of the deals today) – particularly in the Series A round…” http://bit.ly/btJPd9
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