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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. ” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

Both Sides of the Table

I started with a Top 10 list for Nivi (at VentureHacks), but I couldn’t cram it into 10 so it became a Top 11 list. So sticking to my definition of “attributes for success&# it had to be my Top 11 +1 rather than a Top 12. Examples: There is a company called GreenLink Networks based in San Diego and Philadelphia.

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Layoffs Hot Keyword for Second Half of January 2009

SoCal CTO

This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. But, in running it now for the second half of January, the keyword that popped to the top was: Layoffs And this is definitely a sign of the times. You can go to the Hot List post to see what was hot then.

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Interview with Howard Lindzon, StockTwits

socalTECH

Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. I ended up passing on the Twitter investment, but I put out a blog post at the time--I was working for CBS--asking if someone would want to build it, and a kid named Soren MacBeth emailed me back saying he'd build it, which started the idea of StockTwits.

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

Both Sides of the Table

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. The reality of most startups is about survival. If you have a team of 10 people then by definition 90% of the time spent on activities is not put in by you and on a team of 100 it’s 99%. It’s important to get buy in.

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TZ Startup Hot Seat | Joey Flores CEO of Earbits

Tech Zulu Event

In this interview, we catch up with an amazing TechZulu Spotlight alumnus, Joey Flores, CEO of Earbits , a hand-curated music discovery engine that allows its bands and artists to advertise and promote their own material, events, announcements, contests, whatever. When I started, I was one of the only people signing up affiliates.

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Quick, How Might the Alien Spacecraft Work?

Xconomy

But the request this time was different: could we urgently help make realistic screen displays for a big Hollywood science fiction movie that was just about to start shooting? The first line I hear is “I’ve prepared a list of questions [for the aliens], starting with some binary sequences…”. And, yes, it was an interesting script.