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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 don't know if it's because of luck or independence, or just the vertical we were in or the combination of all three, we realized early on that Wall Street's definition of real time was different from Twitter's definition. It's fun, I guess.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

Both Sides of the Table

So sticking to my definition of “attributes for success&# it had to be my Top 11 +1 rather than a Top 12. There’s one attribute (coming soon) that I need to have in order to write a check but I don’t believe is vital for success. Made ME laugh, anyways. It will be controversial – I know. Another example.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. Tell us about that.

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

Both Sides of the Table

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%. In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. Almost by definition we’re control freaks. I wanted to just write.

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The 7 Attitudes of Innovators

Frank Addante

Through this process, I discovered that there is a definitive mindset of innovation, and I broke it down to 7 attitudes. While she was attending San Diego State she started running, and she was so committed to it that she ultimately became an Olympian.

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The 7 Attitudes of Innovators

Frank Addante

Through this process, I discovered that there is a definitive mindset of innovation, and I broke it down to 7 attitudes. While she was attending San Diego State she started running, and she was so committed to it that she ultimately became an Olympian. Innovators must: 1.

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