The Categories of Risk in the VC Brain « Thinking About Thinking http://bit.ly/3vk2z9

Buyers are generally comfortable with earnouts because they won’t have to pay for future growth unless targets are achieved. However, problems do occur with earnouts, and there are important issues to consider” http://www.hughesklaiber.com/Earnouts.html

Totally agree with this. Open vs. closed and centralized vs. decentralized are very interesting debate topics. But missing from most discussions of these issues is the performance tradeoff (centralized is faster, generally speaking). That’s the most interesting piece for me though.

Twitter killed RSS (and that’s a bad thing) — cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog “Twitter killed RSS (and that’s a bad thing)” http://bit.ly/AJE4D

Ad Revenue 2009, October 8th In New York City, To Address New Monetization Strategies for Online Premium Publishers | Reuters “Expanded Lineup of Top Tier Speakers And The Ad Revenue Conference Report Will Address Cutting Edge Practices To Increase Publisher Revenue And Protect Their Brands ” http://bit.ly/rkycC

Data Mining the Mint.com Demographic | TechWatch | Fast Company http://bit.ly/2hBPDH

Data-Mining Medical Records Could Predict Domestic Violence | Wired Science | Wired.com http://bit.ly/nyCRB

I’ve used Tandberg products and I’ve talked to many other businesses that were pleased with them so Cisco buying them is no surprise. http://bit.ly/I63uP

“the best you can do is wake up every day and focus on that day – not the day before, the month before, or two weeks from now. But rather, today.” http://bit.ly/IYs0Y

Selling with Sports Scores– Aligning Sales Strategies to Customer Development (the building stage of your company) http://bit.ly/18RUCg

“Myth No. 3: Content Is King ” – The Moguls’ New Clothes – The Atlantic (October 2009) http://bit.ly/oZj6R