peHUB First Read

* Which 20 companies lost the most money in 2009?

* Janine de Nysschen: Why men get VC funding and women don’t

* Peter Fuhrman: Citic Capital and the challenges of the Chinese buyouts business

* Morning Call: U.S. futures look flat, London falls early, European shares retreat, the Nikkei rebounds and China shares climb.

* Dan Woods: The end of the Blackberry elite

* Steve Rattner is still managing Mike Bloomberg’s fortune

* Even in Blackstone’s worst-case scenario, LPs get back a buck-fifty

* Skype by the numbers: It’s really big

* John Paulson defends himself, while one of his funds postpones a Canadian IPO.

* Dan Gross: Why Texas is doing so much better economically than the rest of the nation

* A brief discussion of the Q1 VC investment data: