* Chris Dixon: Product lens vs. finance lens for startups

* Carlyle’s Jason Thomas: Is the fiscal cliff dive already baked in?

* Morning Call: U.S. futures point higher, European shares climb and the Nikkei rises.

* Rob Go: Super angels, two years later

* No Renesas for you: KKR can’t penetrate Japan’s deal club

* Julie Bort: Meg Whitman’s blame game may be backfiring

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* Photo album: Check out pics from last week’s NYC Liquidity Event

* Shameless self-promotion: Me talking VC last week with TechCrunch

* Dennis Schall: How Expedia tried wiping a small Georgia town off the map

* No joke: Ex-National Lampoon CEO gets 50 years for defrauding investors