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Layoffs Hot Keyword for Second Half of January 2009

SoCal CTO

Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. Top for January 16, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Posts Are You Selling Online Yet?

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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In the past 5 years some of the best investors in the country could simply anoint winners by giving them large amounts of capital at high prices and then the media hype machine would create awareness, talent would race to join the next perceived $10bn winner and if the music never stops then everybody is happy. By 2021 we had to write a $3.5m

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1 Twitter Tip You Can Fix Straight Away

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If you search for her (as of July 10, 2009 at 5:45pm) you will get no result and the text, “did you mean Amanda Choong?&#. Search for Jen Raymond and you’ll get 2 of them – neither one is the Jen Raymond who works for Pfizer and lives in Santa Monica. And write a short bio about yourself. Anything.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. Social media users are over 60% more likely to check email at least four times a day than those who don’t use social media. PHONE CALLS.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. In joining Launchpad he’s agreed to move here, which is a natural fit given their emerging set of media partners. You must watch this short video.

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Interview with Gregg Champion, OneCubicle

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Our interview today is with Santa Monica-based OneCubicle (www.onecubicle.com), a new startup we ran across recently, which is looking to provide a more professional social networking site for younger people. That was the jumping off point for OneCubicle a little over 18 months ago, when we started writing the business plan and code.