* Big Buyout sticks to the script: What, me error?

* Why there will never be a standard set of seed financing documents.

* Data Marketplace launches as an Amazon for structured financial information.

* Morning Call: U.S. futures are mixed, London rises early, European shares hit 17-month high, the Nikkei rebounds and Hong Kong shares gain.

* Ireland’s boom and bust

* Rolfe WInkler: Would a Harley-Davidson buyout make sense?

* Liz Tay: Employers should look to gaming to motivate employees.

* Larry Summers objects to being called a “punk staffer” (“sleepy staffer” would have been okay, though)

* Wal-Mart puts another category of small business on the ropes. But these are check-cashiers, so it’s ok.

* We’ve now sold nearly 800 tickets to our upcoming shindigs in Boston (3/31) and San Francisco (4/15). They cost just $10 each, with ticket proceeds going to a local charity that will be selected by event attendees. Get Boston tickets here, and get San Francisco tickets here.

* Jean Case announces a $50 million VC fund for startups in Ramallah and throughout the West Bank.

* Tweet of the Day: @joevc A great entrepreneur told me he avoids Twitter for fear it leads to groupthink. He may be right. Does everyone agree?

* Tweet of the Day II: @infoarbitrage One of the biggest diffs btw NY and SValley VCs? The West Coast guys have nothing to prove. Calm confidence $$

* Bruce Bartlett: For an anti-tax group, the Tea Partiers don’t know much about taxes.

* Yale increases its private equity allocation, while Kauffman Foundation goes in the opposite direction.

* Sequoia Capital’s Mark Kvamme presentation:

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