When Jack Dorsey Met Fred Wilson, And Other Twitter Tales (Book Excerpt)

Editor’s note : The following excerpt is from Mastering The VC Game , a new book by Jeffrey Bussgang that goes on sale Thursday. It tells the backstory of Twitter from the perspective of founder Jack Dorsey , from his early obsession with couriers and his attempts to create a better dispatch system to his “Aha” moment with Twitter (“What if we simply set status, archive it on the Web, use SMS to do it, and it all happens in real time?”) to why the company picked Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures as its first venture investor (“I want a VC who is always thinking a few steps ahead of me”).

Google Voice Is Coming Back To The iPhone Via The Browser, Thanks To VoiceCentral

Last summer, when Apple pulled third-party Google Voice applications from the App Store , one of them was VoiceCentral . Apple’s subsequent rejection of the official Google Voice app spurred an FCC investigation , but Google Voice never made it to the app store and none of the other apps ever made it back in.

Finally A Green Story I Can’t Mock: The Sun Chips Biodegradable Bag

I love our planet as much as the next person, but I despise efforts by companies and people to get credit for caring about the earth with empty gestures.

Bill Gates Talks About How To Change The World (Live Video)

How does Bill Gates inspire students to change the world?

The Volcano That Shut Down Europe (Flickr Pics And YouTube Vid)

Eyjafjallajökull has become a curse word in Europe as the Icelandic Volcano continues to delay flights across the Atlantic. The cloud of volcanic ash is creating havoc for travelers and European startups who can’t get anywhere. But entrepreneurs in London at least are coping with i mpromptu meetups

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