Still having trouble getting your head around a $10 billion valuation for Facebook?
Try this. Mark Zuckerberg’s social networking company has roughly 300 employees, according to The Wall Street Journal. So, $10 billion works out to $33 million per employee.
Gannett, the nation’s largest owner of newspapers, including USA Today, has a market cap of about $10 […]

Larry Sonsini, the most powerful lawyer in Silicon Valley, says he doesn’t believe in miracles. He expects them.

He may yet need one in the stock backdating scandal.

Friday, a federal judge said there were “sufficient allegations” to include Sonsini in a shareholder lawsuit claiming he and other former directors of Brocade Communications knew about rigged options that led to the felony conviction of Brocade’s former CEO, the San Jose Mercury News reported.

All the world’s a blog and we’re just merely bloggers.
You’d get that impression from the note Internet entrepreneur Jason Calacanis attached to the end of his odd blog post recently declaring “Facebook Bankruptcy.”
Calacanis wrote: “I’m not going to turn comments on…. so stop asking. If this is such an important post for your to comment […]

The New York Times editorial calling for the U.S. to leave Iraq ASAP, generated comment in all the expected places Sunday and one place, perhaps, not so expected: venture capitalist Fred Wilson’s blog.
“I agree with the editorial,” Wilson wrote. “Bush would love to wait and hand off the mess to the next President, but that’s […]

Great markets trump all other factors for startup companies, even poor management and products, writes Marc Andreessen in his blog. The only thing that matters for success is getting to product/market fit, which means “being in a good market with a product that can satisfy that market,” he writes.Andreessen’s blog is getting rave reviews for […]