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Paul Graham provides a damning and insightful look at the state of the modern VC.
Choice quote:
‘Of course, the reason startups do better when they turn down acquisition offers is not necessarily that all such offers undervalue startups. More likely the reason is that the kind of founders who have the balls to turn down a big offer also tend to be very successful. That spirit is exactly what you want in a startup.’

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I started using Twitter downloaded every Twitterific, Twittertwatter app I could find and got a little bored with it all. That was 9 months ago and now I’m proud to say that my gestation period is over, my Twitter baby is newly born with a full head of hair (creepy) and a name, a name I’m frankly not too keen on, but at least it has a name.
‘Jason’
Or to be more specific Jason Calacanis, the ‘Greek-Irish American internet entrepreneur and blogger’ (according to Wikipedia).
I would have preferred ‘Om’, ‘Michael’ or even ‘Kevin’ but I’ll take Jason.
This message greeted me this morning: Read the rest of this entry »
Roul Wouters aka Xelor (darn it, must get me one of those aka’s), uses bouncing baby men and paint to simulate a loading desktop. Crap track, great video.
Yahoo? Google? Poodle? Doodle? Microsoft? Trendy Loft? News Corp? Boozy Whore? Pah! I’m done with it all, it’s all good for the internet and equally horribly horribly bad and did someone mention AOL , quick pension hell!
Mike Arrington gives good summary over at TechCrunch.

(more nice looking stuff like this over here)