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* Selling agriculture 2.0 in Silicon Valley * Mark Suster: Never hire job hoppers. Never. They make terrible employees * BusinessWeek: Prior to Apax's successful sale of Tommy Hilfiger, conventional wisdom was that "private equity and fashion are a bad combo, kind of like pairing a Dior dress with Ugg boots." * Morning Call: U.S. futures point higher, London rises ahead of UK GDP report, European shares climb and the Nikkei falls 1.3%. * Seth Goldstein: Here we go again * The future of hedge funds-of-funds * Corporate bond spreads (non-financial) return to pre-crunch levels. * Don't blame Wall Street for the economic meltdown. Blame porn, and the SEC staffers who love it. * Massachusetts gives A123 Systems a $5 million loan for helping to create local jobs. In other A123 news, the cleantech company's stock hit an all-time low yesterday.