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BoomTown Clarifies Ron Conway's Clarification of His Super Angel Fit (Plus Bin 38 Menu!)

Kara Swisher in News on September 26, 2010 at 5:13 pm PT

Now comes the backpedaling. Of course. Today, well-known Silicon Valley angel investor Ron Conway sent a missive to his favorite missive publisher, TechCrunch. It was a “clarification” of his earlier “leaked” email to Super Angels in which he lambasted them for a controversial dinner at Bin 38.

BoomTown Decodes Ron Conway's Super Angel Super Fit (So You Don't Have To)!

Kara Swisher in News on September 24, 2010 at 2:57 am PT

Ah, there’s nothing like a manly hissy fit amongst a passel of white dudes in Silicon Valley to open the fall viewing season! In this latest episode of “Glee,” a group of Super Angel Cheerios plot to stop the entrepreneur kids from getting to the valuations they’ve been working so hard to inflate. Enter the Ron.

TwitterGate: Out Damned Spot!

Kara Swisher in News on July 16, 2009 at 3:10 am PT

For all the noisy hubbub over should-we-or-shouldn’t-we-publish confidential documents hacked from password-protected accounts of Twitter employees, as well as a Twitter spouse, it is actually pretty simple. Stolen equals stolen. But, because this is a “hot” issue and it concerns an even hotter Web 2.0 company–Holy traffic-gooser, Batman!–the debate will surely go on and on, even as the stolen information inevitably leaks its way out. Still, let’s not pretend what it is and is not.