Adam Nash, Sean Flynn, and 6 others have Tweets for you

matjohnson, Here's what's trending on Twitter this week.         Adam Nash @adamnash "Companies with well-educated, thirtysomething co-founders who have history together have built the most successes" techcrunch.com/2013/11/02/wel… 02 Nov Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups Many entrepreneurs, and the venture investors who back them, seek to build billion-dollar companies. Why do investors seem to care about "billion dollar.. 11 Related tweets Rand Fishkin @randfish Google blocked keyword data to protect privacy, but the NSA is getting the data anyway? washingtonpost.com/world/national… 31 Oct NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say Agency positioned itself to collect from among millions of accounts, many belonging to Americans. 11 Related tweets Sean Flynn @sfly BS patent lawsuits line lawyers' pockets and distract future innovation. We've got to blow up this broken system. buff.ly/1cuctkp 01 Nov Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned "Rockstar" sues Google Rockstar paid $4.5 billion for Nortel patents and has launched a major attack. 9 Related tweets Nicholas Thompson @nxthompson "Frustration has turned to outrage and cooperation has turned to war." Silicon Valley and NSA. nyti.ms/Hi6F3o 01 Nov Angry Over U.S. Surveillance, Tech Giants Bolster Defenses What began as a public relations predicament for American technology companies has evolved into a moral crisis that threatens the foundation of their businesses. 7 Related tweets Graham Farmelo @grahamfarmelo Price of 1Gb of storage: 1981 $300000 1987 $50000 1990 $10000 1994 $1000 1997 $100 2000 $10 2004 $1 2012 $0.10 (via @SciencePorn) 03 Nov 7 Retweets Dave McClure @davemcclure quotable @avc: "Entrepreneurs can bypass VC biz entirely, keep all/most of the co, sell for $20mm & have big personal + financial success." 03 Nov 4 Retweets Wolfgang Buechner @wbuechner Asylum for Snowden! Here is what tomorrow's cover of @DerSPIEGEL looks like in English. pic.twitter.com/gscZWhCryq 03 Nov 2 Retweets Joshua Bloch @joshbloch I wish I'd been on the ISS this morning pic.twitter.com/4LZIWZaxRi 03 Nov 2 Retweets Don't miss out. Stay up to date on what's happening. Go to Twitter Forgot your Twitter password? Get instructions on how to reset it. You can also unsubscribe from these emails or change your notification settings. Need help? If you received this message in error and did not sign up for Twitter, click not my account. Twitter, Inc. 1355 Market St., Suite 900 San Francisco, CA 94103