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NantKwest Names VP Of Adult Medical Affairs

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Culver City-based immunotherapy developer NantKwest , which is led by biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD, said last week that it has named John Lee, MD FACS, as Senior Vice President fo Adult Medical Affair. READ MORE>>.

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How I Got the Monkey Off My Back – Today Was a Good Day

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I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. years ago. Sourcing high-quality leads : 9/10. ” Yup.

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Inside the Realms of Ruin

TechCrunch LA

Then fans would be tasked with writing their own stories, submitting them to the Realms of Ruin universe by minting them as NFTs on the Solana blockchain. If the authors are inviting fans to write fan fiction about a universe they created, who owns the derivative works?

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Ixia Reports Record Revenues, But Sees Loss

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Calabasas-based Ixia , a developer of network testing tools, reported its fourth quarter and 2009 year end results Thursday, saying that it lost $31.3M income tax charge to write-down the value of U.S. The firm said the revenues were an increase of 37% over 2008's Q4, and were up 21% over the $46.4M The loss came due to a $27.6M

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Interview with Tom Allanson, PerfectForms

socalTECH

Through the course of that development, what I observed was that people who were knowledgeable about the process of credit scoring spent an inordinate amount of time imparting that knowledge to developers, who then had to build, QA, and integrate, and test it to get it right. I decided to get back to startups in August of 2008.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” Many pension funds are simply too large to write small checks and favor the ability to write $50-100 million checks to funds. ” Stated simply – if you seed funded Uber at $4.5m Why is this?

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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There were no unicorns in sight on April 14th, 2008 when Kevin O'Connor, my Partner Jim Andelman and I met Twilio's Founder and CEO, Jeff Lawson. A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1 billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 billion).