Pre-Marketing 9.08.10

* Potash chief Bill Doyle: BHP is not alone

* Heather Boushey: Why young women earn more than young men

* Eric Paley: The super-angel vs. VC debate is entertaining, but based on a phony choice

* Morning Call: U.S. futures point lower, London falls early, European shares drag on banks, the Nikkei sheds 2% and Hong Kong shares retreat.

* Bessemer’s top 10 laws of e-commerce

* Are startup founders about to get their own reality show?

* Meredith Whitney: Financial firms will cut 80,000 jobs over the next 18 months

Q&A with Dave McClure, whose new fund did 30 seed-stage deals last month. I assume the interview was heavily edited, since I couldn’t find any obscenities.

* Tweet of the Day: @TonyFratto At least Lindsey Lohan took advantage of Recovery Summer.

* Tweet of the Day II: @ClintChao HP suing Hurd for something he MIGHT do in the future is worse than my HP printer warning me I MIGHT run out of ink soon.

* Hedge funds shrank in July, as investors pulled out around $3 billion

* Paul Heydon of Avista Capital values the global gaming market at $105 billion

* I’m no labor lawyer, but Mark Hurd’s confidentiality agreement looks awfully like a noncompete (which are rarely enforceable in California). You can find it within the HP lawsuit against Oracle:

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