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John Cook: P-I venture capital reporter

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I was an investor in AdRelevance. Will Hodgman is the poster child of what a Founder/CEO should aspire to be. He is a passionate, inspiring leader that is also very smart, creative and tenacious. Equally important, he looks after the interest of his investors over his own. While this may sound odd, remember, he took their money on a promise of delivering a very positive ROI. Every Founder/CEO should take a page from Will's book. Will, when you start your next company, please call me - I will commit to invest before you give me the pitch."

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· iTunes in the crosshairs, Real unveils DRM-free music store
· Bill says goodbye

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Blogs
· Business 2.0
· Business Week
· Don Dodge
· Feld Thoughts
· Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed
· John Ludwig
· Om Malik
· Market Velocity
· MocoNews.net
· Rain City Real Estate
· Seattle 2.0
· Steve Hall
· Silicon Valley Watcher
· Martin Tobias
· VentureBeat
· VentureBlog
· Venture Chronicles
· Who Has Time for This?
· Xconomy

Publications
· CNet News.com
· Private Equity Week
· Red Herring
· Corante

Organizations
· NW Entrepreneur Network
· Nat'l VC Assn.
· WSA
· Seraph Capital Forum
· Technology Alliance

Other VC links
· Topix.net VC News
· PWC MoneyTree Survey
· VentureOne

Seattle startup bloggers
· Avvo
· Marcelo Calbucci of Sampa
· Cleverset blog
· Mike Davidson of Newsvine
· Farecast blog
· Jobster blog
· Greg Linden
· LiquidPlanner
· Kevin Merritt of Blist
· Mpire
· Robert Pease of MessageGate
· Pluggd blog
· Redfin blog
· RescueTime
· Andy Sack
· Kelly Smith of Curious Office Partners
· David Xue of PixPulse
· Zillow blog
· WhitePages.com