New and notable for February 26th 2011 through February 27th 2011

What I’m reading and finding for February 26th 2011 through February 27th 2011:

  • Brief Thoughts on Angel List, "Social Proof", "Spray & Pray", & The Network Effects of Large Scale Investing – Master of 500 Hats –
    (ok folks, i've gotta take the kids to basketball practice in a few hours, so will try to power through this — that means limited crazy fonts, profanity, wild pix… sorry little monsters, next time ;)
    3 major points i plan to cover in this post:
    1) Angel List Fucking Rocks. Period.  it's the single greatest innovation in our industry in the last 5 years (aside from LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, & Quora) and it's great for almost all participants. and while social proof can be abused /..  show all text

  • Unfit for Democracy? –
    Don’t tell people dying for freedom in the Arab world that they’re not ready for it.

  • How One Startup Will Prioritize Your Social Inbox & Personalize the Web – Facebook’s news feed, Twitter’s update stream, and a barrage of RSS feeds can be a lot to manage, and My6Sense has built a business around helping its users sort out the most important information from the rest of the hairball.
  • From Twitter – RT @Karoli great piece by @dsearlson why Al Jazeera rocks and the rest of them are missing the boat. http://bit.ly/glTm7F
  • What’s The Real Deal With AngelList? –
    techcrunch.com - marksuster
    Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by @msuster(Mark Suster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. His second company was sold this company to Salesforce.com, where he served as VP of Product Management.  Read more about Suster at Bothsidesofthetable.
    There’s lots of discussion out there about a new and much-loved service called AngelList that connects entrepreneurs to angel investors.
    I was reluctant to write about AngelList because the debate on pros / cons is pretty n..  show all text

  • From Twitter – RT @sandiegopchelp Hacker Writes Easy-to-use Mac Trojan http://bit.ly/eDcXVl
  • Why I Deleted My AngelList Account –
    Yesterday I deleted my AngelList account. Doing so generated a lot of questions on Twitter, in email and from the press so I want to explain myself.
    Its a decision I’ve been wrestling with for the last few months as I’ve found the service increasingly not matching my investment philosophy. That’s not to say the service isn’t a valuable one for entrepreneurs or even certain kinds of investors. I believe that it can be. Its just not a fit for me.
    For those not fa..  show all text


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