Love Chris Douvos’ institutional POV: Of course, finance is full of people who ruin things for everybody, too (thanks for the SarbOx, Enron!) But the most insidious wreckers are those companies that go public and then miss their numbers within a few quarters (what’s up, Rosetta Stone?!?) It’s those flubs that have a chilling effect on the market for emerging growth companies. http://bit.ly/Nl9Na

“OC SeedTrack is aggressively seeking to make investments, provide services, knowledge, mentoring and execution to bold entrepreneurs with ‘game changing’ ideas at an early stage in the Orange County area.” http://bit.ly/6JAMo

NYTimes.com ““Newfound access to stock in exciting venture-backed companies like Facebook is creating an entirely new class of investors” http://bit.ly/1eXeEk

Venture Capital: An Entrepreneur’s Manual http://bit.ly/llX56

I’ve always thought of this as a coopetition tactic: Verizon spokesperson Brenda Raney says the carrier would rather focus on its network than on the gadgets that use it. http://bit.ly/18ZMxN

RRE recently backed Betaworks, a hybrid firm that both develops and invests in web 2.0 startups. According to the info on Crunchbase, Betaworks “operates as a stock company with shareholders and not a firm with limited partners.” How’s backing Betaworks different than backing other companies that just develop products and/or services? http://bit.ly/zt5rv

RT BRYCE DOT VC, Best. VC Swag. EVAR! via Calacanis http://bit.ly/1aNbWc

When an investor likes an entrepreneurial proposition they will invariably ask for a valuation…Under no circumstances should an entrepreneur mention a valuation first, as this is the entrepreneur’s most powerful instrument to verify the authentic alignment with the assets, skills and imagination of the investor. Money talks. http://bit.ly/2QIDlG

Love the way Mike Maples outlines “the gap” in the innovation economy. Apparent to anyone who knows about the venture asset class but I haven’t seen it written out online like this. http://www.maplesinvestments.com/micro.html

Here are some tips for entrepreneurs when negotiating seed deals http://bit.ly/1L7LIr