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goldenson

  1. @philosophygeek Yes, showing % of an investor's portfolio covered would be better. Tricky to find all of a firm's investments.
  2. My latest TechCrunch guest post: tcrn.ch/jetl0m
  3. My guest post: The Math of TechCrunch: Is TechCrunch Still About Startups? tcrn.ch/j2pjKl
  4. There should be a word composed of uncommon letters, like JIZQAX, that means "to crush in Scrabble."
  5. winklevoss (n.): someone who believes the idea is the hardest part of building a company. (v): to spurn a large, unearned windfall.
  6. I read a headline as: "A Struggle to Disarm People Without Gum Rights". Everyone should have the right to gum.
  7. You know that warm feeling when someone you like moves from saying "I" to "we"? Startups get to feel that all the time. :)
  8. Coding in Perl feels like building a house with toothpicks: fragile, messy, painful.
  9. TV show idea: Coding With the Stars. Watch Bill Gates and Larry Page teach Python to David Hasselhoff and Bristol Palin. I'd watch.
  10. Dear web startups: every time a user can't access your site because it requires the www prefix, an angel that would invest in you dies.
  11. Is it odd that we call books "fiction" or "non-fiction", as if fiction is the benchmark? How about calling them fiction and faction?
  12. I want to give you $1,000! Do you know a great software engineer? Breakthrough.com is hiring: http://bit.ly/fHlz9a #jobs #healthcare
  13. We're hiring! Software Engineer at Breakthrough: http://lnkd.in/vUaZuE ($1,000 referral bonus) #jobs
  14. Breakthrough.com wins Vator Splash competition! http://bit.ly/cj81bN
  15. Breakthrough.com wins the Life Sciences category at the SVASE startup competition! http://bit.ly/b2M0c8
  16. Talked today with an excellent CEO - smart, honest, humble, and win/win-oriented. Reminded me that business can be a noble profession.
  17. Sometimes it feels like acne has its own law of conservation - for every blemish that fades, another seems to appear.
  18. Vans and GameStop opening in downtown. There's an endearing optimism to new stores. Like nature, capitalism strives to find a way.
  19. In D.C., soldiers with medals clanking on their unis. Anyone want to start entrepreneur medals? IPO Iron Cross? Purple Heart of Bankruptcy?