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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. Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. You can go to the Hot List post to see what was hot then.

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

Tech Zulu Event

million which was raised from Thiel, David Sacks (CEO of Yammer), and Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir), 500 Startups and 7th Rig. 25 Years of Writing Code. 25 Years of Writing Code. million Raised. Yesterdays’ equity round of $1.6 million, brings the company’s aggregate amount of capital raised to $2.5

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Venture Capital Q&A Session

Both Sides of the Table

There’s some stuff here that I even prefer not to put into writing. In the video we did a lengthy discussion on “the return of enterprise software&# talking about companies: Atlassian, Jive Software, KickApps, Yammer and SquareSpace. Are the write ups worth doing or not? Minutes 18.30 – 26.30. they take time!!

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

Both Sides of the Table

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. And I know that great startups like Yammer are doing well. Enter Xobni.

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6 Tips for Building Relationships with Journalists

Both Sides of the Table

. - Journalists don’t know enough about your company before the show, don’t have time for proper research, and you will be competing for their time afterward with 49+ other companies that want them to write about you. - If you’re Yammer , Mint or RedBeacon (all winners) you’re knighted with wonderful coverage.

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Why You Shouldn’t Launch Your Startup at a Major Tech Event

Both Sides of the Table

And ever since then every year we are subjected to the tech press corps writing the annual, “What will the hot company at SXSW be?” Because to write stories every journalist needs an “angle” meaning a storyline or narrative that they form their story around. It’s where FourSquare first broke out.

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Is WebEx “Dead Man Walking?”

Both Sides of the Table

Dig deeper and you see that they do: project management (like 37 Signals), share and store files online (like DropBox and Box.net), create and edit documents online (like Google Docs & Zoho), Wikis (like SocialText) and Discussions (like Yammer). I’m writing this post from Shanghai. And we had full screen video.

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