Dyson, who has been investing in startups for ages, talks about both whether there are women angel investors (there are, you just don't hear about them) and whether the buyouts you hear about are overpriced.

TechCrunch, the long-time darling of the digerati, is smashed to bits and all of AOL’s horses and men will be hard-pressed to put it together again. The site has lost almost every one of its top writers and traffic has fallen sharply, dropping by 35% from a year ago.

That's $25m spent by AOL it isn't going to see back. Though the estimate of pageviews comes from ComScore, so if you chose not to believe yesterday's story on time spent on Google+, why, then everything's just hunky dory at TechCrunch.

Search for a quote by a person, quote, keywords and so on. Intriguing. But what's the business model?

"Overall, SV Angel reports 290 active portfolio companies through the end of October. Notables include Facebook, Foursquare, Gerson Lehrman Group, Square, Twitter and Zynga." ... And Groupon, whose shares were ticking back around IPO price last we checked.

"Each and every Chinese IPO failed investors in 2011 so far. This doesn't mean Tudou (NASDAQ:TUDO) will fail as well, but it raises a red flag."

"Rovio Entertainment Oy, the Finnish creator of the “Angry Birds” mobile-phone game, is in talks to receive funding that would value the company at about $1.2 billion, two people with knowledge of the discussions said."

"LinkedIn (Debut: May 19) — $75.16, down 18 percent<br />
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Zipcar (Debut: April 14) — $21.59, down 10 percent<br />
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Renren (Debut: May 4) — $6.75, down 11 percent<br />
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Pandora (Debut: June 15) — $12.55, down 7 percent<br />
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Zillow (Debut: July 20) — $26.17, down 7 percent<br />
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Fusion-io (Debut: June 9) — $24.78, down 5 percent"

"As for the bulk of my time day-to-day, I'm thrilled to announce that Evan Williams, Jason Goldman and myself will be relaunching The Obvious Corporation as co-founders. Our plan is to develop new projects and work on solving big problems aligned along a simple mission statement: The Obvious Corporation develops systems that help people work together to improve the world. This is a dream come true!"<br />
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Collaboration? Lots of things this could be. Then again, he has a good track record - Twitter, Blogger. Should it have been Obviouser to guarantee success?

"Are you a developer or engineer with a passion for building real products and crafting great code? Fresh out of uni, or looking for your next move?<br />
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"Did you know that London's top tech startups are hiring for over 100 technical roles right now?"

"While there are sceptics about the whole ‘East London Tech City‘ project, I do know that there is a big appetite to nurture this industry. Nothing happens over night, but at least we’ve started.<br />
"However, one thing I have been banging the table about – increasingly angrily as the weeks and months have past – is the provision for broadband to startups in London.<br />
"Time and time again startups are telling me that while they can deal with hiring people, deal with finding lawyers and partners and VCs, what they can’t deal with is the achingly slow response times of broadband service providers."