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Dan Primack at Fortune puts out a daily newsletter called Term Sheet. It's focus is broader than startups and VCs. It also includes private equity and other institutions. But it's a fantastic way to stay up to date on major deals across all industries and sectors.

Venture Beat and Pando Daily are also good resources. All three tend to run the same stories within a few minutes of one another.

Pash is right. No word yet on crowdfunding. It will be interesting to see how this change to the general-solicitation rules impacts the crowdfunding portion of the bill. The provisions are somewhat contradictory, so long as the accredited-investor limitation remains.

This is going to BLOW up into some amazing technology. Just you wait.

Well that was a letdown.

To be clear, I wasn't really suggesting that one should game the system, hence the scare quotes. But a competent lawyer should, in my view, respect the fact that judges are human and respond just like other humans. That means paying attention to little details like dress, demeanor, font, grammar, and all the other elements of presentation that every marketer knows but few lawyers understand.

On a deeper level there are tactics like angling your argument to the judge's world view. (This makes judicial panels all the more important.)

Legal realism is so fantastically obvious as this study easily shows.

The law is what judges do. So your lawyer had better know how to "manipulate" the judge.

I'd imagine that you could get yourself to the bay area if you went back to school for an advanced degree. I don't know if that's your path, but you could use that as a foot in the door.