Twitter book for Venture Hacks by Backupify.com Profile venturehacks Name: venturehacks Location: San Francisco Bio: Good advice for startups. Tweets by @nivi. Brains by @naval. We are investors (Twitter), founders (Epinions), students (life), advisors (billions). 1 / 1.053 Twitter book for Venture Hacks by Backupify.com Updates venturehacks “Internet is one of the primary export industries in the US.” – @fredwilson, http://vh.co/ci4ZsT 2010-06-10 00:03:47 (+00:00) venturehacks “When breakthrough thinking is needed, a fun… environment will generally yield better/faster results.” – @seanellis, http://vh.co/aPJg21 2010-06-09 22:58:35 (+00:00) venturehacks Steve Jobs: The definition of entrepreneurial resiliency http://vh.co/bLj8ZT. /cc @msuster @gruber 2010-06-09 18:45:02 (+00:00) venturehacks Kicklabs has great office space for SF startups http://vh.co/dxEdwL. I'm hanging out there today. Tell'em I sent you: [email protected]. 2010-06-08 22:03:45 (+00:00) venturehacks “We all meet for 3 hours, once a week, and we talk about everything we're doing.” – Steve Jobs http://vh.co/c3CVO9 @ 1:01:20 /cc @jasonfried 2010-06-08 19:10:05 (+00:00) venturehacks “Instead of looking at pixels *under* glass, it's like looking at pixels *on* glass.” – @gruber on iPhone 4's display, http://vh.co/cEQfs7 2010-06-08 01:03:55 (+00:00) venturehacks How to mind fuck people with "wide" questions http://vh.co/at5tQe. I especially like the job interview question. /by @msuster 2010-06-07 21:36:44 (+00:00) venturehacks “Everyone dialed in to the meeting, putting every single person on an even footing.” – @natfriedman on distributed teams http://vh.co/9AjsVl 2010-06-07 01:26:38 (+00:00) 2 / 1.053 Twitter book for Venture Hacks by Backupify.com venturehacks “If you find a lawyer who talks about solutions not problems, hold on to them.” – @sgblank, http://vh.co/cebuz2 2010-06-03 19:15:12 (+00:00) venturehacks “I usually like second time entrepreneurs, mostly because I f'ed up everything on my first company.” – @msuster, http://vh.co/dtZbGv @ 41:08 2010-06-02 19:05:04 (+00:00) venturehacks “The most difficult decisions… will be deeply unpopular with the CEO’s most important constituencies.” – @bhorowitz, http://vh.co/b1eLEF 2010-06-01 19:10:05 (+00:00) venturehacks This fortnight in Twitter http://vh.co/d3N44L. The most popular links this fortnight. 2010-05-29 19:55:02 (+00:00) venturehacks “I like how I feel when I am using the thing.” – @fredwilson on iPad, http://vh.co/bMxfX2 2010-05-29 18:59:13 (+00:00) venturehacks “If it’s an activity you can do on FarmVille, it’s measured somehow with coins, cash, points, levels…” – @philmichaelson http://vh.co/aMV3 2010-05-28 18:45:02 (+00:00) venturehacks Valuation is really a reflection of your ability to create a market for your shares http://vh.co/9eLWbC 2010-05-27 23:50:02 (+00:00) venturehacks Advanced gestures for using Pages on an iPad http://vh.co/b0CD7I. This is quite seriously Minority Report shit. /via @LKM @gruber cc @bfeld 2010-05-27 22:30:03 (+00:00) venturehacks “I admire them in the same way I admire the work ethic of serial killers.” – Scott Adams on BP, http://vh.co/9pwD2S 2010-05-27 21:45:03 (+00:00) 3 / 1.053 Twitter book for Venture Hacks by Backupify.com venturehacks Scott Austin at WSJ has a great summary of the 50 minute Doerr + Moritz interview we just posted http://vh.co/cYsJ4D. /cc @scottmaustin 2010-05-27 21:26:27 (+00:00) venturehacks John Doerr interviews Mike Moritz interviews John Doerr http://vh.co/c49kEC. Classic. /cc @sequoia_capital @johndoerr @chchien @bingfish 2010-05-27 20:30:05 (+00:00) venturehacks “In the 2000s… APPL was reborn and created even more value than GOOG as it grew from $16B to $200B market cap.” – @honam http://vh.co/aBUOIb 2010-05-27 19:35:04 (+00:00) venturehacks Ratio of APPL to MSFT market caps on Wolfram Alpha http://vh.co/9URI4T. Give it time to load. Click "Linear scale“ and drop jaw /via @gruber 2010-05-27 18:35:06 (+00:00) venturehacks How real-world corruption works http://vh.co/blCKEu. This is awesome. Great negotiation advice. I read every word. Thank you Internet. 2010-05-26 22:30:04 (+00:00) venturehacks “[B-plans are] often misused to obfuscate, bore and show an ability to comply with expectations.” – Godin, http://vh.co/cIgAFf /via @zoransa 2010-05-26 21:55:06 (+00:00) venturehacks The Cold Reality of First-Time Funding http://vh.co/cAEtL6 /by @giffconstable 2010-05-26 20:35:05 (+00:00) venturehacks “The Setup” is the place to get software suggestions, e.g. which macro tool should I use? http://vh.co/cHRBoA. Great suggestions from nerds. 2010-05-26 19:25:08 (+00:00) 4 / 1.053 Twitter book for Venture Hacks by Backupify.com venturehacks John Doerr: The salesman for nerds http://vh.co/bCm7GY. The latest vids from @venturehacksTV /cc @johndoerr @charlieroseshow @jason @msuster 2010-05-26 18:45:04 (+00:00) venturehacks How to sell to large companies http://vh.co/c706K0. Good tactical enterprise sales tips. You're not alone. /via @asmartbear @smhanov 2010-05-25 20:30:11 (+00:00) venturehacks VCs are good at making every concession in a negotiation seem like a big deal. It's called concession devaluation: http://vh.co/9a9AUx. 2010-05-25 19:35:05 (+00:00) venturehacks RT @venturehacksTV: Jack Dorsey (@jack) on drawing, luck, and iteration http://vh.co/angzmH /via @fredwilson 2010-05-25 18:30:22 (+00:00) venturehacks How does a team of 35 design for 400 million Facebook users? http://vh.co/bNfs41 /cc @lukewdesign 2010-05-23 20:50:03 (+00:00) venturehacks “Lying is contagious.” – Pfeffer, http://vh.co/afcKgZ — it's not about morality, it's about successful organizations. 2010-05-22 22:05:04 (+00:00) venturehacks iPad Start Experience: 4 Licenses, 21 Steps http://vh.co/caeXxw /via @lukewdesign cc @gruber 2010-05-22 20:50:02 (+00:00) venturehacks “Do not ever take any interruptions, even if you get a phone call from the President.” – @englishpaulm on interviewing, http://vh.co/cp1xcy 2010-05-21 20:45:07 (+00:00) venturehacks “Do not ever leave a job candidate sitting on a couch waiting for someone.” – @englishpaulm, http://vh.co/cp1xcy 2010-05-21 20:05:06 (+00:00) 5 / 1.053 Twitter book for Venture Hacks by Backupify.com venturehacks Angel Boot Camp coming to Cambridge, MA http://vh.co/bHdI6B. Without angels, there would be no VCs. And far fewer startups. /cc @jonpierce 2010-05-21 19:30:08 (+00:00) venturehacks Clay Christensen's milkshake theory is my favorite way to think about competition & substitutes: http://vh.co/a2nezA /cc @cdixon @pjozefak 2010-05-21 19:05:05 (+00:00) venturehacks AngelList Update: Made 45 intros for 7 startups in May. Need to pick it up! Get intros to Tier 1 angels here: http://vh.co/bT9lX2. 2010-05-21 18:30:10 (+00:00) venturehacks Carried Interest Deal Cut, Let the Workarounds Begin! http://vh.co/akqopK /by @BillBurnhamCA 2010-05-21 18:05:09 (+00:00) venturehacks “Close the candidate on the job, not on the compensation.” – @englishpaulm, http://vh.co/cp1xcy 2010-05-21 17:35:10 (+00:00) venturehacks Nicely formatted archive of classic posts by Andreessen http://vh.co/c0mOtG /cc @a16z @fictivecameron 2010-05-20 22:35:05 (+00:00) venturehacks “And that is my business plan, or at least the closest I’ll ever get to writing one.” – @twosixesllc, http://vh.co/bZ2ysS 2010-05-20 21:30:09 (+00:00) venturehacks “ATT could not be good at the thing it was good at and good at the opposite thing at the same time.” – @cshirky, http://vh.co/cejlBM 2010-05-20 20:30:13 (+00:00) venturehacks RT @venturehacksTV: Bill Gates convinces Steve Jobs to give him 3 pre-release Macs http://vh.co/bRJHVM (video) /cc @billgates @fsjblog @ibm 2010-05-20 20:05:03 (+00:00) 6 / 1.053 Twitter book for Venture Hacks by Backupify.com venturehacks Every time you e-mail prospective investors, include good news (product, traction, team…). It stimulates reciprocity: http://vh.co/9XXzSi. 2010-05-20 19:20:09 (+00:00) venturehacks TweetDeck users: vh.co links work in the latest desktop TweetDeck: http://www.tweetdeck.com/desktop /cc @tweetdeck 2010-05-20 19:05:03 (+00:00) venturehacks “I don’t expect you to understand most of what I’ve just written because it is obvious that you are stupid.” – @fsjblog, http://vh.co/aYTQxh 2010-05-20 18:30:23 (+00:00) venturehacks Thomas Korte's perspective on “If this is your first time raising an angel round…” http://vh.co/bQCC1t /cc @thomask 2010-05-19 20:30:18 (+00:00) venturehacks Learned a new word from @cdixon today. “Coreferential”, from this post: http://vh.co/9zHzhy. Meaning: http://vh.co/c7QOEJ. 2010-05-19 19:25:10 (+00:00) venturehacks “We didn’t just want a place to work. We wanted a place to share our ideas and learn from others.” – @jasonfried, http://vh.co/bzg07i 2010-05-19 18:25:10 (+00:00) venturehacks RT @venturehacksTV: This Week in Venture Capital with Jason Calacanis http://vh.co/cCBgEW /cc @jason @msuster 2010-05-18 21:30:08 (+00:00) venturehacks Why startups should train their people http://vh.co/abh9xn /via @bhorowitz cc @a16z 2010-05-18 20:35:07 (+00:00) venturehacks “In a nutshell, anything that takes more than 3 sentences to explain to your peers does not work in reality.” – Kutt, http://vh.co/9qHp1C 2010-05-18 19:30:16 (+00:00) 7 / 1.053 Twitter book for Venture Hacks by Backupify.com venturehacks “[Atari] Basic Programming… could surely win an award for the box art most disconnected from reality.” – @topherchris, http://vh.co/90uUQn 2010-05-18 18:35:12 (+00:00) venturehacks “Obscurity is your friend when you’re just starting.” – @jasonfried, http://vh.co/axHuTI 2010-05-17 23:06:22 (+00:00) venturehacks “Before I even wrote 1 line of code I talked to 10 different people who I knew were in my target market.” – @twosixesllc http://vh.co/aMz2Ti 2010-05-17 21:35:09 (+00:00) venturehacks “Seed funding is entering the world of philanthropy, and I think it’s a very good thing.” – @bhargreaves, http://vh.co/dpWifG 2010-05-17 20:35:05 (+00:00) venturehacks GitHub is the new place for creative angels to find startups.