Don Draper + Liz Lemon are not a fit at all. Travesty. But make your own mind up and watch their Valentines day Date.

$35M

Similar to when Wordpress did a round it didn’t need (as Fred Wilson chestnuts today : “The best time to raise money is when you don’t need it“), I wouldn’t be surprised (as some techcrunch commenters were saying) if some of the Twitter “yes the round was $35M” at $230m valuation says hybridised domain named gawker-valleywag - if a lifestyle percentage went to founders, esp the non google cashed out before one.. who came up with the idea… and isn’t running the ship anymore. (their post’ere) So why the fk shouldnt he/they cash out some money now ? Skin in the game investors want.. well once u have a few years of opportunity cost in a venture.. the psoriatic skin is very real. But u need to know when to hold em and fold em goes that other chestnut. Yes embrace failure and all that, easier to say in retrospect when u have cashed out of your next venture

While many from the sideliness will bitch and moan in the blog comments, a funded alive twitter is better than one that’s not. It’s a nice insurance policy against the Googolopol in so far as we all depend on google to make the 2.0/3.0 industry - a twitter that is public and funded employs people, makes acquisitions, and hopefully makes money - enough to be an independent company that is one day public. It is as if in short term myopia, all bloggers, commentators and crossover entrepreneurs think that the only form of exit is a quick flip to Google/GEMAYA 2.0 etc. Fact is look at entrepreneurship theory or imagine if blogs were around 15 years ago, you were meant to go public after a certain period of years eg 5-7 with increasing revenue, profit, growth and employees.

But google went public, made a right ton of money, and could buy who it wanted post 2004 and going public was nigh impossible. So there was no motivation to go public, but that is changing with a 2nd generation of web entrepreneurs (Ev Williams Howard Lindzon) that have cashed out once before so dont have that same ‘first home run’ necessity to get setup to live large. They are already living large, but want to live much fkn larger if u get my drift, like ginormous already.  Not to mention google is a big company that isnt the same brainstrust to work at. Google’s omnipotence flipped around is impotence for startups with aspirations beyond the flip. So Twitter doing a big round and growing its user numbers (similar exactly to what ning is doing - how would that be as a merger btw?) It does make me think that Howard Lindzon’s plan for twitter to become the IPO or back into a public shell public social media posterchild as not totally off the planet, revenue aside for a minute. What I found interesting is the screen used by new Twitter investor the famous Benchmark Capital via Techcrunch :

I Luv me some Hustle and The Rules of Grifting. Dont Play the Playa gr8 Ep S5E6

5 Reasons Why Twitter Can Raise $35M from Benchmark/IVP

Below is on Techcrunch from IVP partner on why they invested :

1. Open.  That makes it easy for others to build on top of Twitter and it also makes it searchable.
2. Real time. It is a huge database of what is happening right now.
3. Ubiquitous. You can get to it from just about any device.
4. Scalable. (Don’t laugh)
5. Persistent. It allows for an archive of what is happening and what has happened, which is searchable (see No. 1).

5 Reasons Skins S3E4 All Girls Pyjama Party Rox

Must Watch : Season 3 Skins E4 ere, is so good. While 30Rock BTW has lost it. (after faultless perfect S1+2) Sorry Jon Hamm u should only play Don Draper, not Liz Lemon’s dysfunctional Valentines love interest. Anyway back to the much better Skins;  The characters, writing, styling and direction is flawless. Why go to the UK when u can listen to Skins ? (Well shopping ok thats a good reason) Best depiction of generation Y u will see on the box. (the girl/girl storyline: “me not muff muncher. me cock cruncher.” + “promise not to grab your minge” “ok haha, hands off the muff and we’re sorted.” + “gotya. no buffing the beaver.” + “no groping teh growler” + “no tinkling my tinkle.” “ok i won’t fluff up your flange.” “You done ?”) Whoever wrote Skins S3E4 rox :

Some Pinot Grigio Turns into some Sapphic Pyjama Fun

1. Has alot of fun coming up with a whole Panda Syntax :

Panda : “We then went to the park yeh Ef ? chips. yeh. super cool. front (?) and sauce. 6 of redbulls.  then we went crazy coz cook pulled out his religious pants andn showed us his willy.”

Panda on her mum : “You can’t tell her the trooth. she’d only flip and do the ra-ra.”

Panda to Effy when asked why are they friends : : “You are my pal because none of your boyfriends would want to surf me because I’m useless.”

Panda promoting her pyjama party : “We’re doing twister.”

Hetero Twin : “Cool. You can snort that right ?”

Panda : “Not exactly. Mum’s making brownies.”

Same Twin : “You Ok ? (to Effy)”

Panda : “Her mum’s making the monkey. And her dad’s gone ape. Bananas. Because Beardey Steve’s making her do the Funky Gibbon (?)”

Effy + Panda have it out this Ep. Check out lastnightsparty.com

2. Must be deranged themselves.

Possibly like the MDA Cookie baking muthr. Doesn’t every1 have a bedroom connecting to their next door neighbours ?

Naughty Angela Mom and Next Door Neighbour. Nuthin is as it seems.

3. Pushes the special line.

When u think of Panda as special/retarded, then gives her a moment of clarity, snap.

Check the Pyjamas Panda + Her Mom made, or Blk Beanies on Jak + Jil

Panda to Effy : “You always barf everything up. It’s always you. You do everything you like. Just because your mum’s getting whacked up the pants. Well bug on, bug off. This is my party. And I’m upset because my boyfriend got deported. And you’re supposed to be playing. And eating jelly. And playing twister. And at my party. And telling me how to pop my cherry. With my boyfriend.”

4. Knows how to depict an all girls pyjama party

MDA Mum : “I’ve left pyjamas out, they’re pink and clean.“) from the “wish fulfillment” of the teenage male in this case the “you dont give a fk about anything do you?” Cook and unconvinced panic attackd Jay.

Cook : “Pyjama party means only one thing, girls getting friendly. Real friendly… U Never experienced wish fulfillment Jay ? They are all in there : Girls getting to know each other, experimenting. Getting lubed up and gagging for forbidden fruit and we’re gonna give it to them.”

Panda gets her Twister but with Cook so why not listen to Weezy and Santogold Unstoppable, krunkn

5. Knows that all pathways lead one way.

And that is to the “do i ever get to be anyone but me” Effy (I’ll try anything.”) and (”My name is”) Thomas, and more the former than latter.

Panda locks herself in bathroom most of party. Click for a gr8 party pad in Japan.

$4 Large Latte No Sugar + $1.10 Herald Sun + 7 ciggas left : OK i’m off to clean out the shrapnel/savings… and find my own $35M of caffeine and Herald Sun, not enuf for AFR today unfortunately, my fave paper the Weekend Fin. Gonna start making money again next week, not into this POVO thang. Not sure why I’m watsing my time transcribing skins, just the writing is better than any blog or business plan. Oh and I better end with some blood on the wall as Patrick Swayze is tearing it up in what will likely be his last vehicle The Beast, and damn is he in career best form, so good he makes every1 else appear to be acting really bad. Anyway check it out, up to ep 5. Here u can watch all 5 eps ere no problem/download/cost. Highly recommended.

Patrick Swayze in The Beast is Killing It. Click for S1E5 Latest. BTW if u like The Wire, True Blood, Sons of Anarchy - My recommendation for new shows to pick up are : (along with) The Beast : Being Human, Hustle, Spooks (Older Seasons), Leverage, + Demons - in that order. That's probably 1 terabyte of gr8 programming u can pick. I'm still hanging for first 4 seasons of Hustle btw...