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Pete Cashmore at Mashable raised an interesting question today when he asked if the leading proponents of social media are, in fact, social media introverts —

Wouldn’t it be a great irony if the leading proponents of the “it’s about people” mantra weren’t so enamored with meeting large groups of people in real life? Or, perhaps…fitting. Perhaps social media affords us the control we lack in real life socializing: the screen as a barrier between us and the world.

I had always thought of myself as a loner until I realized that people have different social styles –

Everyone has a different social style, so, understand yours and start from your comfort zone, before you challenge them.

Some people like meeting new people at parties where they can look beautiful, click pictures of each other on their camera-phones, get drunk and dance late into the night, and become lifelong friends without even saying a full sentence to each other (because the music is too loud to talk).

Other people like to meet new people one on one — over coffee, let’s say — so that they can talk to each other, get to know each other.

In response to Paul Kedrosky’s list of top ten VC lies -

I liked it, but I couldn’t get it past my asshole partners.

- Mashable’s Pete Cashmore made his own list of top ten lies about startups -

It’s The XYZ Killer!! - Wherein XYZ represents an amazingly popular one-of-a-kind service and the thing doing the killing launched today on a server in the 13 year old founder’s bedroom.

Have I ever mentioned that, in the early days of outsourcing, I was associated with one two outsourcing startups myself? We even went to Hawaii to get VC funding for one of them (thanks to the startup cell at IIM-B), only to realize that we were way out of our depth. Both of them are small profitable businesses today, by the way.