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This is one of our most popular tweets ever. You never know which tweet will be popular.
The tweet isn’t exactly true but it’s close enough for 140 characters. Exceptions and corrections welcome in the comments.

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According to Google Reader, we write 2 blog posts a week. And according to TweetStats we write 73 tweets a week.
If you only read our blog, you’re missing the great links we post on Twitter. We take the same care with our tweets that we do with our blog posts and [...]

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We now have a Facebook fan page for Venture Hacks. It’s a feed of our blog posts and tweets.
I was surprised to see how many people get their news on Facebook. The fan page already has 677 fans. Check it out.
Here’s how we put it together.
How to get fans
I mentioned the page on Twitter a [...]

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“nicely done as always. i can count on one hand the number of daily emails worth signing up for.”
– Matt Oesterle, Sweepery
Startup News is two weeks old today. I want to share some stats and thoughts about the product.
If you haven’t seen it yet, Startup News is a daily digest of our tweets, with links [...]

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Startup thoughts:
Every action in a startup increases or decreases money, time-to-live, and morale.
If you thought product development was hard, wait until you try to distribute it.
“To succeed in business, you have to have a genuine interest in profitability. And most people don’t.” – Derek Sivers
“We didn’t get here by playing the rules of the game. [...]

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We previously posted about the long tail of VC blogs. A few VC blogs capture most of our attention. The rest slog it out in the long tail.
And now, for the first time in the history of mankind, we present the long tail of VC twitterers (click to zoom in):

The underlying data is from Venture [...]

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We wrote a lot of comments on other people’s blogs this week. Then we shared them on Twitter. I think you’ll like them. Here’s the top 4:

How do you raise money if you’re a very early stage companies with no product, traction, or track record? Some thoughts: http://j.mp/Uy0iR. (345 clicks — on the weekend!)
If you [...]

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Here’s our top 5 tweets from last week. You’ll never miss another tweet if you subscribe via RSS or email (no more than one email a day; unsubscribe anytime). Of course, you can also follow us on Twitter.
Top 5 tweets of the week
We calculated the top 5 tweets of the week by looking [...]

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We recently undertook a landmark survey to determine whether our readers want to see our tweets here on this blog. The short answer is: yes.
First, 62% of respondents want to see tweets on the blog at least once a week. And a whopping 75% want to see tweets at least once a month:

Lesson: Consider putting [...]

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We’re spending more and more timing posting original content and links on Twitter at twitter.com/venturehacks. For example:

Once in a while, we post a summary of our tweets here on this blog — like this.
Do you like our tweet summaries? Hate them? Want more? Want us to stop? We want your feedback.
Click here to take our [...]

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