Are Entrepreneurs Born or Made? – NYT “We’ve found results that indicate a genetic component.” http://bit.ly/2Um8mH

Seth’s Blog: Understanding business development “Good business development allows businesses to profit by doing something that is tangential to their core mission.” http://bit.ly/3VvAa5

Seth’s Blog: Things to ask before you redo your website “Things to ask before you redo your website” http://bit.ly/ygZgj

Fred Wilson says: When the founders and management want to sell, the VCs ought to go along (within reason) because blocking a sale and having angry and unhappy founders and management running the business is a bad outcome. http://bit.ly/NAlSC

This is right– I was in a similar situation with a top tier VC and they went along with the sale even though they didn’t want it.

Looks like eBay has moved on from the fights with Google a couple of years ago: eBay Adopting Syndicated Google Paid Search Ads, Dropping Yahoo http://bit.ly/4q8NLe

Intresting to consider the change in cost structure from FIOS: By converting most of its landline operation to FiOS, Mr. Seidenberg said Verizon had a new opportunity to cut costs sharply. FiOS uses the decentralized structure of the Internet rather than the traditional design of phone systems, which route all traffic through a tree of regional, then local offices. http://bit.ly/r44zS

An under the radar NYC based local advertising play: Yext is getting around $3.33 for a call and generating around 25 calls a month for an average monthly advertiser cost of a little less than $85/mo.” http://bit.ly/29Lude

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