Venture Hacks

Highlights from the @venturehacks Twitter feed from this fortnight. The most retweeted tweets.
“The toughest and most important decisions in technology companies are always about product strategy.” – @bhorowitz, http://vh.co/a3DO7h
“With our stock buyback… we were signaling that we didn’t see much of a future in our business.” – @fredwilson, http://vh.co/9udDmm
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Highlights from the @venturehacks Twitter feed from the last fortnight. The most retweeted tweets.
“I usually like second time entrepreneurs, mostly because I f’ed up everything on my first company.” – @msuster, http://vh.co/dtZbGv @ 41:08
“If you find a lawyer who talks about solutions not problems, hold on to them.” – @sgblank, http://vh.co/9UPJGR
“Internet is one [...]

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Highlights from the @venturehacks Twitter feed.
How real-world corruption works http://vh.co/blCKEu. This is awesome. Great negotiation advice. I read every word. Thank you Internet.
Clay Christensen’s milkshake theory is my favorite way to think about competition & substitutes: http://vh.co/a2nezA
Every time you e-mail prospective investors, include good news (product, traction, team…). It stimulates reciprocity: http://vh.co/9XXzSi
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37signals’ This week in Twitter has inspired me to round up this week’s most popular @venturehacks tweets:
Entrepreneurship is not an end in and of itself. Serial entrepreneur is an oxymoron.
“I start companies because it gives me an opportunity to create teams.” – @englishpaulm, http://vh.co/b0tGgY
“Integrity is the safest way to make money… Situational [...]

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Say hello to vh.co, our new short URL, powered by bit.ly Pro.
.co domains will be available to the general public in June. But! the registrar has created a program called .CO Founder to give legit startups early access to .co domains. That’s how we got vh.co.
I’m pretty psyched about .co. Other domains like .us, .es, [...]

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Favstar automagically collects your most popular tweets. This is a great way to catch up on the great links we’ve been sharing, that you missed while you were on the beach eating lasagna. Check out our most popular links.

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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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