Walker Twitter Highlights: October 17th – 30th
by Scott Edward Walker on October 31st, 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. Below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly) for the past two weeks and a couple of 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: “What makes someone an awesome co-founder CTO?” Solid answer via @DavidSacks: b.qr.ae/v8dvUP
- “I was on Wall Street two weeks ago, and I’ve been in Silicon Valley this past week. What a contrast!” -Tom Friedman nyti.ms/pvOaoT
- “So was [Steve] Jobs smart? Not conventionally. Instead, he was a genius.” -Walter Isaacson nyti.ms/tWbGDf
- “It’s surprising how many…who apply [to YC] have a co-founder who’s not willing to quit his or her job.” –@paulg bit.ly/nDKXWk
- Interesting HN thread: “the #1 cost by a fair margin for virtually every funded software startup will be…employment” bit.ly/nnnwvE
Blog-Related
- New vid post: “If You Don’t Love It, You’re Going to Fail” bit.ly/ng8CSz
- In case you missed it, just uploaded my post on @HuffingtonPost: Raising Capital? 3 Tips for Entrepreneurs – Part 3 bit.ly/poo6hs
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