Walker Twitter Highlights: February 12th – 24th
by Scott Edward Walker on February 25th, 2013I’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
- Quora: “As an entrepreneur, what’s the best bit of advice you’ve been given?” Some solid nuggets: http://b.qr.ae/Y9JUPC
- “We the investors…share a lot of the blame for creating the fiction around startups.” –@paigecraig http://tcrn.ch/VA71ZG
- Quora: What are the advantages of raising money from 20+ angels in your seed round? Interesting responses: http://b.qr.ae/YyAlMb
- “If I can leave with one piece of advice to young founders. Pls think really hard about taking other peoples money.” http://bit.ly/13aSchV
- “Be wary of lawyers who are not familiar w/early stage startup work…can cause all sorts of unwanted trouble.” –@dshen http://bit.ly/Z38ZPh
Blog-Related
- “What you do with those early investment dollars…is you go about systematically trying to eliminate risk.” -Jeff Bezos http://bit.ly/14VCXb6
- I just uploaded this solid vid of @thegdb (founding engineer @stripe) re recruiting 101: http://bit.ly/ZvR1Zz
- New motivational vid post: “If I Fail, I Try Again and Again and Again…It’s Not the End” http://bit.ly/WfMeFq
Tags: angels, entrepreneur, founders, investors, Jeff Bezos, quora, seed round, startup, Stripe