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"I've listened 3x now and I do like it but it does not yet attain best ever status. I'll work on that on the flight hom" - Fred Wilson

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"Obama is spending $3.5 million a day on television ads,” said Evan Tracey, CMAG’s chief operating..."

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Soros blood money spent - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ

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i question any candidate spending that kind of money when the country is in financial crisis. - Tony Kanzia

@AnnoyingNoah Did Soros give $100 to each of the millions of households contributing to Obama's campaign? No. No he didn't. - Jason Carreira

@Tony people like me sent him the money to spend on the campaign. I'm fine with him spending my money. For one thing, he's putting money into the economy, for another this is exactly what we wanted him to do, totally dominate and win big. - Jason Carreira

If this were a business, and investors gave money to obtain a goal, and you knew that spending on this medium in the last month would help reach that goal, you'd do it. In fact, you'd be doing your investors a disservice by not doing so. Winning is akin to profitability. Spend it Obama. - AJ Kohn

@Tony - what'd you prefer he do? Put his campaign contributions in to the social security fund? The dollars were designated for campaigning, so not sure what else he should do w/ them :P - Patrick Lightbody

I love how the Republicans started to whine about money when Democrats have more money for a change. - berkay

yes spending all that money on negative ads - money well spent. and don't forget advertising on xbox. the government should put limits on this kind of spending. - Tony Kanzia

Haha... negative POLICY ads are not the same as the dirty smear campaign McCain has been running. - Jason Carreira

Tony, the government *does* put limits on that kind of spending. Each American can donate a maximum of $2300 to any presidential candidate after nomination. Of course a candidate is going to use the money contributed to their campaign before the election. What's the scandal here, that people are contributing money to their candidate of choice? - Kevin Fox

@Tony: The last third-party analysis of ads showed Obama running about 38% negative and McCain 100%. Regarding xbox, so you're against advertising in new mediums? By that logic we'd still only be reading about these campaigns, no radio, no television, no Internet. - AJ Kohn

What everyone seems to forget is that, while it seems a huge waste of money, it's still pumping money into the economy at a time when people are pulling their money out of banks and mutual funds and stuffing it under their mattresses. It's also helpful to note that a huge amount of Obama's fundraising was donated by the little people like me, chipping in $25 or so, not people giving thousands. - Cyndy

i love how these arguments always break down to republican democrat. its always has to be us vs them. it cant just be this is an issue across the bored. Yeah paying ABC and Comcast to run these ads is really helping the economy. the candidates are still running ads I don't watch - the economy must be getting better. come on. - Tony Kanzia

this election is bought. Obama has taken the money he had... invested it. took your money and furthered his coffers. before you start attacking me and calling me a conspiracy theorist: I don't think Soros is bad. Soros follows the rules but he is in this for himself. He puts money into PR and when the economy he invests in becomes unsustainable he will run with his investment. Main Street can't afford to be victimized by his guilt. We need to learn from what happened in South East Asia - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ

When you think about it in relative terms, it's not much money. It would take 550 years of spending at that rate to equal the financial bailout. We spend more in Iraq in two days than all the 2008 presidential campaigns spent combined. - Kevin Fox

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“The tsa agent at sfo asked me if I was a child actor after looking at my drivers license. A child actor in the 60s named fred wilson????”

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“The guy who is writing the novel (a thriller) on twitter is @mrichtel. Is it the same matt richtel who writes for the NY Times??”

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“Listening to KFOG in the car. This guy is talking about writing a novel on twitter.”

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and yet they say Twitter is dead and there is no business model. (2 posts today at least) - Mark Bean

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"But it's hard to do it well and Etsy can and should make it easier than it currently is" - Fred Wilson

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"management should not be the ones "crushed" if crushing is indeed happening it should be the investors in the prior rounds management needs to have a stake in the business and be aligned with the investors but we are getting ahead of ourselves here as i have not seen any "crushing" financings yet" - Fred Wilson

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“@techguy here's the post where i listed a bunch of web business models http://bit.ly/23wO17”

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"Very funny" - Fred Wilson

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“congratulations to donors choose who came in 2nd in the amex members project and won $500k. http://bit.ly/Yh0ne thanks to everyone who voted”

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“Thanks to a tip from @bradburnham just waited in line for less than 10 mins @shakeshack”

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“@steviegpro I wanted to see that Jonathan Richman show but am going to miss it. I bet he plays lonely financial zone”

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“I can talk now. I'll call your cell”

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“trying out and posting from the new bit.ly here's a link to a post i just wrote about the public and private markets http://bit.ly/4yNDvl”

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The Stages Of Democracy

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recipe for an appetizer the gotham gal and my son josh came up with - chorizo/apple puffs - Fred Wilson

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“Helping my daughter do a paper on nina simone. Talk about a win/win parenting moment”

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“@mediaeater obama's desire to eliminate cap gains tax on startups is not new. And I am not sure its good policy either. Low yes, but none?”

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more important to remove options-exercise from AMT calc http://webseitz.fluxent.com/ar... - Bill Seitz

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“@suesol those two like to talk. Is either getting a word in?”

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“@ManFmNantucket nope. my average cost in $goog is about $375. i also lost money on a $goog trade i made last oct. i've got a ways to go”

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“holy shit, i am up 22% on my $goog purchase and 30% on my $appl purchase. i made both at the market open on friday. that's a 2 day return???”

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I bet there will be a few other miracle returns like this during the next few weeks - Mark Dykeman

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wow must be nice! - Kipp Bodnar

Apple is totally amazing. Totally blows my expectations away. - Robert Scoble

if the market is up today; I think I may start my buying spree tomorrow. - clarke thomas

Dang... I knew we should have bought more! - Lindsay Donaghe

I agree, market is up today, cash out on your winnings. It'll go down tomorrow. Then you can rebuy. - Geoffrey Hamilton via twhirl

Fred, you are smart and courageous man. If you would have bought Morgan Stanley you'd be up almost 90%. Are you going to sell or hold? - Steve Olson

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Re: Vote For Donors Choose In The American Express Members Project

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"Only one vote allowed" - Fred Wilson

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“but then, my stock portfolio is still down 31% in the past year and 43% since i started tracking it on covestor http://bit.ly/gQOog”

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“@paulretherford i didn't come up with it, @howardlindzon coined the "be too small to fail" i just ran with it, like "splurge" and "freemium"”

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