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AngelList Syndicates will compete with other lead investors for deals, and many will fail — Leading vs Following — Hunter Walk has a good post up on the coming competition among angels with syndicates to get into deals. Hunter observes: … What Hunter is getting at is the difference between leading and following.
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| Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table: |
AngelList Syndicates can help traditional VCs, not just entrepreneurs and angels — Is @AngelList Syndicates Really Such a Big Deal? — If you track the venture capital industry it would be hard to miss the conversation going on this week over AngelList “Syndicates.”
Tweets: @davidlee and @besvinick
| Jason Calacanis / LinkedIn Today: |
Jason Calacanis touts power of AngelList Syndicates, boasts that his own now exceeds $300k — The Great Venture Capital Rotation — A couple of years ago, I was chatting with a guy named Naval, who had a site called AngelList. He had a fiery passion for helping founders and an outsider's chip on his shoulder.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
First Windows 8.1 ad features the return of the Start button — The removal of the Windows 8 Start button last year turned out to be a hot-button issue for users of Microsoft's latest operating system. Following a range of feedback from customers, Microsoft is now preparing to release Windows 8.1 on October 18th with a Start button.
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Microsoft's New Surface Commercial Highlights Features — Microsoft's latest ad promoting its line of Surface tablets is a break from tradition. Instead of choreographed dances or snarky attacks ads, the new commercial highlights features on the Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 it thinks consumers will like the most.
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| Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: |
Twitter plans to make its IPO filing public this week — Twitter's IPO filing is ready, and the company intends to make it public this week, according to someone familiar with the plan. The goal is for Twitter to begin trading, likely on the New York Stock Exchange, before Thanksgiving.| Artem Russakovskii / Android Police: |
Gmail 4.6: Ads Are Coming To Gmail For Android, Unsent Messages Warning, And More — Now that the insane week of Google app updates has passed (gotta love those Rollout Wednesdays, right?), I've had some time to dig into the APKs and have found a number of interesting things in some of them.
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The Next Web, Android Community, 9to5Google, Android Beat, T3 News, The Droid Guy and AndroidHeadlines.com. Tweets: @carnage4life
| Ryan Taljonick / GamesRadar: |
PC gaming's future is no longer tied to Microsoft — First there was SteamOS, a Linux-based operating system whose open design aims to spur innovation. Then there were Steam Machines, a range of Valve-branded systems with SteamOS pre-installed that will provide a legitimate non-Windows alternative for PC gamers come 2014.
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N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens — WASHINGTON — Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans' social connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain times …
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| Ryan Sarver: |
Ryan Sarver publishes first of 10 essays on lessons learned as Twitter's Director of Platform — Things I Learned Working on the Twitter Platform — I was lucky enough to spend the last four years of my life working with an incredible team of people on the Twitter Platform.
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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Judge tosses Apple motion, allows patent troll Lodsys to continue rampage — Lodsys became one of the most-scorned patent holders in 2011, by making seemingly small cash demands (just 0.575 percent of your revenue, please!) against small app makers, who it said were infringing its patents that cover in-app purchasing and upgrades.| BBC: |
UK to create new cyber defence force — The UK is to create a new cyber unit to help defend national security, the defence secretary has announced. — The Ministry of Defence is set to recruit hundreds of reservists as computer experts to work alongside regular forces in the creation of the new Joint Cyber Reserve Unit.
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