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Follow Yahoo!’s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! According to a new Bloomberg poll, 71% of global investors view Ben Bernanke favorably, up from 60% three months ago. Which brings us to another edition of Taken to Task. It’s no surprise market pros view Bernanke favorably — the Fed chairman has consistently shown he’ll pull [...]

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"VCs are people too". That was what I was thinking this morning as I read Fred Wilson‘s post about approaching VCs when they are out in public.

Fred says it is ok say hello and hand over a business card, but make it quick and don’t pitch.  That makes sense to me.  All decent VCs love meeting people and are in the business of getting to know companies will be happy sparing a few seconds to share contact details.

People spend a lot of time worrying about how to behave around VCs, about how or when to make an initial approach and then at subsequent chance encounters about how much to pitch.  The right answer depends on context – are they with family or is it a work social, how many other people have pitched them that evening, do they look tired, are they standing on their own or talking to other people etc.  VCs are humans too, just like you, and the best way to figure it out is to put yourself in their shoes and think about what you would like.  If you do to others as you would have done unto yourself you won’t go to far wrong in this world.

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Follow Yahoo!’s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! Financial markets rallied Friday after the EU summit produced an “intergovernment” agreement designed to impose tighter budget rules on member states, as well as 200 billion euros (about $270 billion) for the IMF’s bailout fund. All 17 nations in the eurozone signed the agreement, which calls for [...]

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Follow Yahoo!’s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! After a string of Republican presidential debates, Saturday night’s showdown at Drake University in Iowa shaping up to be the most lively and heated of them all. And we’re not just saying that because Yahoo!, along with ABC, is a co-sponsor of the event; rather, because the [...]

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