Mitch Lasky
General Partner
Benchmark Capital
http://twitter.com/MitchLasky
http://bizpunk.blogspot.com
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Just leaving White Hart Lane after frustrating 0:0 draw w/ Man City. Spurs couldn't finish. At least my kids had fun learning all the songs
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RT @AlexPham : Best company sell-out memo. Ever. w00t internal memo about its acquisition by Amazon: http://bit.ly/ckni1o
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Blatter may like idea of #worldcup ref fallibility, but he's going to get hung from a yardarm after #USA, #ENG, #MEX -- total #fail
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Awful #USA: Bradley starting Clark; Donovan invisible; Bradley playing for extra time with #GHA on back foot; too much Altidore; bad
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[Corrected] My take on Donovan's #worldcup goal. http://bit.ly/cNU9Mw
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My take on Donavan's #worldcup goal http://bit.ly/cNU9Mw
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Why are the big European powers struggling at the #worldcup? http://bit.ly/cIkQUy
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My quick guide to #WorldCup analysis on the web: http://bit.ly/bCHnow
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Hope ref Coulibaly's shocking call is USA's Torsten Frings moment http://bit.ly/6hxUEJ for this #worldcup and it's good luck from here.
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NYT's David Brooks: football is "a long series of frustrations leading up to near certain heartbreak" -- sums up SVN 2:2 USA
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My World Cup preview is up. http://bit.ly/a5Q42e
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Having late snack in Boston bar. Red Sox-TX 7-7 in 10th and Bruins-Sabres 2-2 in 2OT. Crowd is completely losing it.
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Is it me, or is Capital One's "Ivan Brothers" faux viral March Madness thing just the dumbest and least appealing ad campaign ever?
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Femtocells: buy router, pay for your own backhaul, and your phone might work in your house. Still, cool. http://twitpic.com/1aoqlo
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At #ctia. First time in a couple of years it is actually interesting. Like the Kyocera zio: 'droid, wvga, sub-$250 nice form factor
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Real March Madness: FFC 4:1 Juve ... Clint Dempsey ftw! http://bit.ly/aoX0rT
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Whatever magic AT&T did in downtown Austin to make iPhones usable (and it was good), they clearly didn't do at the Austin airport. Ugh.
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Best SXSW line so far: "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution" @cshirky
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My SXSW panel on VC and alternatives with @trotzke , @davemclure , @jolieodell and GitHub founder @defunkt starts at 12:30 in Hilton D.
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This is perhaps the best preview of 2010 in the video game business that I have read anywhere. http://bit.ly/bRomE8 Super insightful.
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Watching the Google Buzz webcast. Really like the geo-tagged "buzz layer" on Google Maps.
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Congratulations to Brandon, Marc & the team at Riot on the first million downloads. http://bit.ly/b4Xlhq
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This 1994 Rolling Stone interview with Steve Jobs is fascinating on many levels: http://bit.ly/cqOync
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"The disease of free": CNN reports music revenues at 43% of 1999 levels. http://bit.ly/blLKJe
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Sci-fi author Charles Stross on AMZN-McMillan publishing spat: http://bit.ly/cKqhgz He is anti-AMZN, but commenters are more balanced.
