Yossi Vardi being honest

Yossi Vardi – the grandfather of the Israeli tech scene and guest speaker at Campus Party on Thursday – while in Israel. Vardi has invested in over 80 high-tech companies and his Midas touch has seen many of his investments sell to global businesses in multi-million deals – including ICQ (sold to AOL), Brightcove, TheGiftsProject (sold to eBay), and FoxyTunes (sold to Yahoo). He has acted as an advisor to the World Bank and the UN. He also tells a mean joke. Here are some of his nuggets of wisdom for anyone starting up in the tech scene.

-          http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/21/theres-only-so-many-times-you-can-fake-an-orgasm-10-nuggets-of-startup-wisdom-from-yossi-vardi/

Classic behind the scenes look at how "winning investments" are made. The real question i have is are any USA based VC firms really doing it any differently? Sure you can draw up your charts and your theories but isnt it all just darts at the end of the day?

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Rihanna to chat live on Facebook

Its great to see how many stars are taking on the experience of live chat with their fans,

 

 

Rihanna to chat live on Facebook

Rihanna's going to get a little face time with Andy Cohen and millions of fans tonight.

Considering that she has one of the largest audiences on Facebook (She has 62,251,725 fans.), Rihanna could be there for a while.

The chat is set to start at 7 p.m. EST. Viewers can catch everything at http://facebookcom/facebooklive. If you can't log on in time, don't worry. A video of the session will be available to watch online right after RiRi signs off.

- http://www.s2smagazine.com/stories/2012/11/rihanna-chat-live-facebook

 

 

Colorado, Washington Legalize Recreational Marijuana

http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/colorado-washington-legalize-recreational-marijuana/story?id=17656515

This has to be the biggest side story of the night.

Recreational use is VERY different to medical use. No need to fly to amsterdam anymore just go skiing in colorado.

http://www.LivePoliticalChat.com is powering down today for the forseeeable future but with political issues like this and the fiscal cliff coming up over the next few months it wont be long before we power it back up for its next event.