Venture Hacks

Stop saying: “If only we could raise money, we could do X.” Start saying: “If we do X and we’re lucky, we might be able to raise money.” (This was quite popular on Twitter — 91 retweets — so I’m reproducing it here. You should follow us on Twitter. There’s a lot of good and [...]

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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 You have acquisition interest—now [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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