Betting on the Ponies: non-Unicorn Investing

matjohnson, Here's what's trending on Twitter this week.         Charlie Kemper @ckemper A fabulous must-read lengthy post about focused investing by @ganeumann: A guide to non-unicorn venture investing: reactionwheel.net/2014/07/bettin… 04 Jul Betting on the Ponies: non-Unicorn Investing Twenty fucking five to one My gambling days are done I bet on a horse called the Bottle of Smoke And my horse won - The Pogues I have decided to angel invest. Any advice? I spent some time decades ago in the horse… 11 Related tweets Kent Goldman @kentgoldman Some of the smartest and kindest people in technology. Nobody should be surprised by their success. nyti.ms/1rCauF1 06 Jul With Revenue Roaring, Twitter's Advertising Team Is Untouched by Turmoil The management team running the revenue side of Twitter, led by Adam Bain, has thrived even as top executives running other parts of the company have resigned or been pushed out. 2 Related tweets Alex Kruglov @akruglov Impressed by the investor patience. Original vision was FB for gays. Fab CEO still standing now plotting next 20 yrs on.recode.net/1sc4qk4 06 Jul Fab's CEO, Still Standing, Is Plotting The Next 20 Years Forget what you know about the old Fab. This time CEO Jason Goldberg thinks he's finally got it right with a new furniture site called Hem. Investors can be forgiven for demanding Goldberg's head given the sheer number… 3 Related tweets Chi-Hua Chien @chchien Could Facebook alter elections? Tested "how 'political mobilization messages' caused ppl to vote in 2010 election." online.wsj.com/articles/faceb… 05 Jul Facebook data scientists worried that some users were subject to multiple experiments $FB The Facebook Data Science group that experimented on user emotions until recently operated with few boundaries and little oversight. 5 Related tweets Joyce Lau @JoyceLauNews People's Daily used Twitter, which is banned, to report that China Daily reported that Facebook, which is banned, will open a Beijing office 05 Jul 3 Retweets Lessig @lessig That's it. We did it. For US. For @aaronsw. Tears, and sleep, and endless thanks. #MayDayPAC pic.twitter.com/wULvKvIv73 05 Jul 2 Favorites Cliff Pickover @pickover A map of the "Internet" in June, 1970. Wow, pretty simple. pic.twitter.com/5KZJL8lgn3 05 Jul 1 Retweet Marc Abrahams @MarcAbrahams RT @pickover: A map of the "Internet" in June, 1970. Wow, pretty simple. pic.twitter.com/jwy84xYQ3z 05 Jul 1 Retweet 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 change your email digest frequency or unsubscribe from these emails. 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

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