Smart & accurate commentary by NZX CEO Mark Weldon re Charlies sale (source)
Note to entrepreneurs: your idea is not special (source)
A Ken Auletta profile of Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg (source)
Chairman’s address to 2011 NZX Annual Meeting (source)
A very insightful take on the current changing state of the early-stage financing space (source)
Disrupting (financial) professional services (source)
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Some crazy Twitter stats (source)
StarSports – A stock market system for sports that uses real money (source)
Luck versus skill: How can you tell? (source)
New Facebook ($FBOOK) Valuation Record As Shares Surge 5% To $31.50 (US$78.75 billion EV) (source)
John Doerr, Twitter, And The Rise Of Secondary Private Markets (source)
Somali pirate: I made $2.4 million from ransoms in 2010 (source)
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Fortune on a more difficult future for Google (source)
More on free pricing on-line (source)
Chart of the day – China’s economy vs The Rest (over 2,000 years) (source)
Facebook facts & figures (history & statistics) (source)
Wired on the web is dead (source)
The Atlantic on why saying “X is dead” is wrong (source)
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Skype files for an IPO (source)
Understanding a VC’s seed investment approach (source)
More on what early-stage investors are looking for (source)
Will financial information become the next “commodity” data? (source)
The current state of fund raising in Silicon Valley (source)
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Successful fundraising with Kickstarter (source)
Advice on on-line pricing (source)
Very basic comparison tools added to Yahoo! Finance (source)
US seed-investor Dave McClure’s investment thesis (source)
What happens when a venture capital investment doesn’t work out (source)
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Some high quality thoughts on the US seed investment fund boom (source)
An analysis of the current state of the US VC industry (source)
Kindle books outselling hardcover books. “Tipping Point” reached, Amazon Says (source)
Doing the right things is more important than doing things right (source)
Google Finance adds options (source)
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