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Immunet launches free service to collectively protect against security threats using social networks. http://www.reuters.com/article...
How pre-funded entrepreneurs survive and thrive in the new age. Good article by SVB. http://www.svb.com/pdfs...
No business plan survives first contact with customers. http://entrepreneur.venturebeat.com/2009... by Steve Blank /via @Venturebeat
RT @altosvc: Xignite: "Appetite for Disruption". A disruptive company shaking up Wall Street. http://www.facebook.com/altosve... http://myloc.me/show...
Interesting thought - "Perhaps one day not long from now, everything on the Web will be a mere extension of Facebook." http://www.slate.com/id...
I'm at Altos Ventures (2882 Sand Hill Rd, Suite 100, Menlo Park). http://foursquare.com/venue...
What Makes Silicon Valley Special? Relentless Optimism. http://gigaom.com/2009... /via @om
The Internet itself is becoming the social network. https://twitter.com/karaswi...
Amazon.com and Walmart in price war. Who will win? The consumer (but sales tax on ecommerce will go up, I think). http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
Just in time for the holidays, eBay's site is down??? Search does not work, which makes it pretty useless!
If you add up ALL the revenues of Zynga, Playfish and Playdom, it is less than half the marketing budget of the top online gambling site.
Almost two thirds of net new jobs are created by companies less than 5 years old. The future belongs to entrepreneurs. http://www.businessweek.com/the_thr...
Good lessons from Supreme Court by @bfeld. Come prepared and pay attention. http://www.feld.com/wp...
RT @altosvc Xignite featured on Techcrunch: As more data moves to the stream, an essential building block for fin apps http://www.facebook.com/permali...
@Scobleizer You should check out free cloud based AV from Immunet. It'll work side by side with Symantec/Norton, Microsoft or stand alone
@fsjblog does great job of using Techcrunch and NYTimes' coverage of Zynga to show why newspapers are dying. http://www.fakesteve.net/2009...
RT @VentureBeat 4 ways to get rejected by angel investors http://entrepreneur.venturebeat.com/2009... by Jason Cohen. GREAT advice - applies to VCs pitches too.
How to select angel investors by @cdixon http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-... and my thoughts extending the discussion to VCs & others http://www.blog.altosventures.com/vc...
Warren Buffet does it again. He zigs when the rest of the world zags. Now well over $40B invested since the downturn. http://www.reuters.com/article...
Jason Fried quote: The mindset on day 1 of a bootstrapped startup is: "Make Money". The mindset in a funded startup is "Spend money"'.
Great brand consultant's advice on rules for creating surveys that yield actionable data: http://www.instigatorblog.com/how-to-... (via @aaker, @avinashkaushik)
Overcommitted http://www.blog.altosventures.com/vc...
The top 1% of individual tax returns pay as much as the bottom 95%. The government's version of freemium biz model?! http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof...
RT @SteveCase: The Myth of Crowdsourcing http://www.forbes.com/2009...
RT @phil_hellmuth: "our inflated ego makes us NOT great." I agree, you should read this Phil! http://altos.typepad.com/vc...
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