{"id":839,"date":"2008-10-27T16:31:48","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T00:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/27\/links-for-2008-10-27\/"},"modified":"2008-10-27T16:31:48","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T00:31:48","slug":"links-for-2008-10-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/27\/links-for-2008-10-27\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2008-10-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avc.com\/a_vc\/2008\/10\/the-survival-ma.html\">A VC: The Survival Matrix<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;&#8230;we are seeing many companies looking at their cash balances and burn rates and deciding to cut burn to increase runway. We&#039;ve done an exercise with our own portfolio that I wanted to share with all of you. I am calling it the survival matrix.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/mdoeff\/entrepreneurship\">entrepreneurship<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/mdoeff\/startup\">startup<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122461906719455335.html\">Twitter Goes Mainstream &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;When the service first appeared a couple of years ago, its appeal seemed largely limited to narcissists who wanted to let everybody know what they were doing in real time. But, like blogs and social-networking sites, Twitter is starting to cross into the mainstream, as a wide range of people find interesting uses for the brief notes.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/mdoeff\/twitter\">twitter<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/27\/technology\/companies\/27dotbomb.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss&amp;oref=slogin\">To Survive, Net Start-Ups Slow Their Metabolism &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;To preserve cash, many tech start-ups are rushing to lay off employees and cut expenses. They are shelving their dreams of Google-size riches and getting small, humble and thrifty, all with the more modest goal of surviving the coming economic winter.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/mdoeff\/financialcrisis\">financialcrisis<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/mdoeff\/startup\">startup<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/mdoeff\/siliconvalley\">siliconvalley<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A VC: The Survival Matrix &quot;&#8230;we are seeing many companies looking at their cash balances and burn rates and deciding to cut burn to increase runway. We&#039;ve done an exercise with our own portfolio that I wanted to share with all of you. I am calling it the survival matrix.&quot; (tags: entrepreneurship startup) Twitter Goes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}