April 2012
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Quotes from Summer@Highland applications
It’s that time of year again when I find myself pouring over hundreds of applications to our Summer@Highland program. Summer@Highland is our summer accelerator program for university-affiliated entrepreneurs and is responsible for helping awesome companies like Wildfire, Gemvara, Cloudflare, and Tivli get up and running back in the day.
I tweeted a few of my favorite quotes from these apps...
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My take on the Instagram deal
A lot of digital ink is getting spilled over the $1B acquisition of Instagram by Facebook this week. Much of the back-and-forth is around headline price. Business Insider rightly pointed out that, on a per user basis, the acquisition price was relatively cheap compared with 10 year historical M&A comps:
Yet this analysis misses the point.
Facebook has 800M+ monthly active users (and many...
