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• Great time meeting folks at @TechCrunch party @ AugustCap. Thanks @arrington, @davidhornik for hosting & @VCMike/@ryanspoon for after party. #
• TechCrunch party — at August Capital http://gowal.la/r/YDpp #
• Congrats @jrpowers @vikasreddy @rob_c_grant RT @occipital: Introducing 360 Panorama – Realtime panorama creation. http://bit.ly/bOyxKC #
• +1 RT @fredwilson: Lead Investors, Dipshit Companies, and Funding Every Entrepreneur http://awe.sm/58rjK #
• RT @lizgannes: Two stories by me on Y Combinator & startup M&A from events in the Valley: http://bit.ly/dAYz8U http://bit.ly/buTace #
• Twitter feed on my TweetDeck/Mac is missing updates (even mine!) and is out of chronological order (seeing RTs before seeing original) #
• Yikes, someone's reading my papers!? RT @bkrausz: @manukumar The @gazehawk presentation @jgershen made quotes you from http://bit.ly/8ZejzD #
• Congrats @davemcclure! RT @500startups: …and BOOM goes the dynamite. #
• +1. Cool stuff! RT @bfeld: just played around with the new iphone app from @occipital (coming out tomorrow). it's unbelievably awesome. #
• Curious about the accuracy of the ET RT @TechCrunch: Y Combinator Backed GazeHawk Heatmaps With Web Cams – http://tcrn.ch/9m50DN by @alexia #
• Don't usually tweet baby pictures, but couldn't resist this picture of @reachanika http://twitpic.com/2a3tmp #cute #

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• #Startup2Sartup — at Stonebrook Historic House http://gowal.la/r/YpvT #
• 'It is important to pick the winners, but it's also important that the winners pick you' : Sam Altman (@sama) from Loopt. #AngelConf #
• 'Luck is a goddess that needs to be worshipped as o/w she will go to someone else' :@m2jr being humble abt success as superangel #AngelConf #
• Joshua Schachter (@joshu) says don't be like VCs who give entrepreneurs the SHITS: Show High Interest and Then Stall #AngelConf #
• #AngelConf PG predicts that there will be no fixed amount raised, no lead, and no closing date. Rolling closes and merely nominal leads. #
• RT @davemcclure: bio on @MKapor , founder of Lotus 123 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Kapor #AngelConf #
• 'there is a VC playbook — that's why they all sound the same' : @mkapor #AngelConf #
• '2/3 of all of @sequoiacap's early stage investments had some number of angels involved in those companies' :Greg McAdoo #AngelConf #
• 'The biggest source of deals were entrepreneurs that I hadn't invested in, but tried to help them anyway' :@ariel #AngelConf #
• 'When angels become successful, they become superangels, and then they start to suck' :@arrington #AngelConf #
• 'There's an entire generation of entrepreneurs building dipshit companies to sell them to GOOG for $25M' as quoted by @arrington #AngelConf #
• 'I'm very good at blogging, where there is very little upside or downside to picking the winners' :@arrington #AngelConf #
• #AngelConf @jeff expelling the difference between angels, superangels, uVCs (micro-VCs), and VCs. http://twitpic.com/29tcf5 #
• Watch #AngelConf live at http://www.justin.tv/ycombinator (Hat tip @garrttan) #
• 'entrepreneurs are crystal balls for the tech industry' : @ronconway #
• Here at #AngelConf with a whole bunch of interesting angel investors. Thanks to @ycombinator for organizing! http://twitpic.com/29t8mh #
• Fascinating yet somber discussion on NPR's Fresh Air: 'Dr. Atul Gawande: Make End Of Life More Humane' http://k9.vc/csUr81 #
• AngelConf — at Y Combinator http://gowal.la/r/YmrD #
• RT @hunterwalk: .@youtube upload limit increased to 15 minutes. http://bit.ly/9sRPbN #
• Did the mistake of sitting inside at Peet's at Town and Country Village. Now I smell like coffee. Ugh. #
• .@Hobees lol. I use Chief Firestarter as my title as a reference to helping start companies So you don't have anything to worry about. #
• lol RT @Hobees: @manukumar We hope it's outside! (Do not want a repeat of the Great Fire of '96!) #
• Starting fires… — at Hobee's http://gowal.la/r/Yjfr #

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• Congrats to my friends Chinmaya + Apurva for having their work showcased in Dwell! http://k9.vc/abKpNi Slideshow: http://k9.vc/c0GpWx #
• RT @jonathanberger: no reason webdesigners at HP/Dell should be any less talented than those at Apple, yet this happens http://bit.ly/cFmgPX #
• Real power of Kindle is in the software infrastructure for delivering e-Books. IMHO device is secondary. Shd put Kindle on all platforms #
• +1 and RT @msuster: Email is like spaghetti – the more you process the more you seem to still have to finish #neverends #
• Always wondered whether those IKEA AA batteries were worth it. This article does a good comparison, verdict: yes. http://k9.vc/b8duCw #
• What they really want you to do is instal Ad Block! RT @cdixon: facebook ads want me to whiten my teeth, donate sperm, and play mafia wars. #
• RT @twilio: Check us out on Facebook and tell all of your developer friends. http://www.facebook.com/TeamTwilio #
• ouch! RT @jboutelle: RT @kellan: OH: "until Google hires Jonathan Ive, it's just a bunch of dudes running Linux on their phones." #
• Congrats Ling, Mike & Bryan! RT @TechCrunch: Playdom Acquired By Disney For Up To $763.2 Million – http://tcrn.ch/cUuaRv by @arrington #
• Trying it out! RT @TechCrunch: Amazon Now Taps Into Facebook For Social Product Recommendations – http://tcrn.ch/ckiwWE by @leenarao #
• RT @dkhare: All for one, one for all RT @davidbeisel: Micro VC syndicate chumminess: "Micro VCs Are all BFFs Forever?" http://bit.ly/d8J8CO #
• Thanks Baris! RT @Baris: gr8 nght w/awesm investrs @asenkut @davemcclure @joshu @andreazurek @chrisyeh @christine @manukumar @rchen @seandem #

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• shhhh. RT @Baris: .@manukumar is card munching. So cool! #coolstartupsyoudontknow #
• It's not often that I legitimately get to put links to NSFW sites in an email, but today is one of those days. #
• Intel Capital Angel Dinner — at Marché http://gowal.la/r/XYiH #
• Intel/Dell Payola NYTimes: Dell’s Trouble Kicking the Intel Habit – http://nyti.ms/b0BnOD #
• Better title: Library of Congress says: Let it Sn0w, Let is Sn0w! 'Exemption Will Allow ‘Jailbreaking’ of iPhones' – http://nyti.ms/dtXpft #
• From the Chronicles of the Obvious: RT @NYTimes: N.F.L. Toughens Warning On Risks of Head Injury – http://nyti.ms/cHxIyV #
• Love the design of the Apple keyboard and Magic TrackPad combo. http://www.apple.com/magictrackpad/ #
• I think I have a solution for @GMail slowness: Click send on the desktop, and while it's spinning do another one on the laptop. #FAIL #

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• .@satishd I'm skeptical about any "VC industry metrics." About as accurate as "analysts" for public companies. (i.e. All full of…) #
• Financial Reform Act: Hedge Funds and PE Funds Over $150M Required to Register; VC Funds are Not http://k9.vc/aQDMKE (h/t Wilmer Hale) #
• Sense prevails RT @TechCrunch: Now Legal In The US: Jailbreaking Your iPhone, Ripping A DVD For Educational Purposes – http://tcrn.ch/dg2eS6 #
• Dear @GMail, Can you get your act in gear and improve the speed for your power users w/ >4GB mail spools? Thanks. #
• This even a metric worth looking at!? Quality, not quantity. cc @danprimack RT @peHUB: 10 Most Active VC Firms of 2010 http://dlvr.it/32pHY #
• "Teach It or Lose It" RT @sgblank: You Can't Take It With You: http://wp.me/prGQZ-1Ed #
• Why the Valley is the place to be. +1 RT @GreylockVC: Henry McCance on why Greylock moved its HQ to Silicon Valley http://bit.ly/aULg3z #

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