Walker Twitter Highlights: July 4th – 10th
by Scott Edward Walker on July 11th, 2011I’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. If you missed this past week’s Twitter updates, below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly) and my 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
- “Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook.” -Marc Andreessen http://nyti.ms/o0trUE
- “[M]ore than 40 presentations trying to raise capital, with no luck…then we got a call from…Shenzhen.” http://nyti.ms/qEstsX
- “The most common mistake is to pivot too late. You have sunk costs. You get sort of married to your project.” –@cdixon bit.ly/mTay17
- “Working at Airbnb is like a really fun school where you get paid…Or maybe it’s more like camp.” –@jgebbia http://on.wsj.com/ngNkE9
- Road to Riches: Zynga’s Path to IPO – interesting infographic http://bit.ly/pDsciB
Walker Blog-Related
- In case you missed it, here’s my post regarding redemption rights in a VC term sheet: http://bit.ly/og8Gqj
- My new Forbes post: Doing Deals – 3 Tips for Entrepreneurs (Part 2) http://onforb.es/nptWAu
Tags: Airbnb, doing deals, entrepreneurs, Marc Andreessen, pivot, raise capital, redemption rights, term sheet, Twitter Highlights, Zynga