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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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From Immigration to Taxes, Execs Talk Trump Effect on Innovation

Xconomy

When it comes to developing and promoting innovation, external factors beyond the control of company founders, investors, and other business leaders can also determine whether a startup succeeds or fails.

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A VC’s Take: Global Volatility Hurts U.S. Venture Ecosystem

Xconomy

As Xconomy’s editors looked back at the year just passed, we asked technology leaders to comment on the trends they’d observed in 2018, and the developments they expected in 2019.

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10 Qualities That Will Make You Stand Out In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

In her classic book on this subject, “ The Essentials of Fabulous ,” Ellen Lubin-Sherman, who has been tracking fabulous people most of her life as a writer and journalist, tried to net it out. Have a big bandwidth. Can you talk, with equal engagement and respect, to your company’s CFO and the guy who pumps your gas? Be vivid virtually.

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Acadia to Move Experimental Pediatric Rett Syndrome Drug to Phase 3

Xconomy

San Diego-based Acadia (NASDAQ: ACAD ) announced in August that it had licensed the drug, trofinetide, for development and commercialization in North America as a treatment for Rett syndrome and other indications, including Fragile X syndrome. The results of the.

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Why Acceptance of Failure is Critical to Startup Success

Both Sides of the Table

After all, if people feel more of a safety net for trying and not succeeding more people are bound to try in the first place and more innovation is almost inevitable. Could Korea’s largest companies increase their funding of startups and provide them with initial business development deals as so often happens in Silicon Valley?

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With Vernalis Buy, Ligand Adds to Portfolio, Establishes U.K. Presence

Xconomy

million deal netted the San Diego company eight partner programs and a 70-person R&D team in Cambridge, England, plus about $32 million in cash after deal costs. Vernalis’s programs include drugs being developed for the respiratory and oncology sectors. Ligand doesn’t have the business model of a traditional biotech.