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MAY 1, 2009

San Diego-based Entropic Communications reported its results yesterday, saying that its net revenues fell to $24.1M, a drop of 18 percent from the fourth quarter of 2008, when it had revenues of $29.5M, and a 43% drop from the first quarter of 2008, when it reported $42.0M. The firm had a net loss of $8.7M. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 21, 2009

San Diego-based Nanogen, a developer of molecular diagnostics products, said today that it has received permission to investigate alternatives to a previously announced merger with the Elitech Group. Nanogen had originally announced its merger with the Elitech Group, a French diagnostics company, in August of 2008.

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MAY 20, 2009

San Diego-based specialty pharmaceuticals firm Victory Pharma has been acquired by Atlanta-based Sciele Pharma, Sciele said this week. Accordin to Schiele, it will pay $150M to acquire Victory Pharma, which is focused on acquiring, developing, and marketing products to treat pain.

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JULY 29, 2010

Some years there is an excitement about the hot economy, more recently it's been shock and awe over the 2008-09 financial meltdown. But, just as the Valley climbed out of much worse ditches (nothing was worse than the slow-motion, dot-com meltdown of 2000-03, yet out of its ashes came a new bull market for tech and a Google IPO in 2004.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 23, 2008

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 -- "Funding Your Campaign: Company Financing Alternatives in Challenging Times" San Diego Venture Group. The IPO market is sluggish. Your company is promising, but it needs capital to win its "campaign for success." True venture capital is favoring later stage companies. See [link] (more).

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

The speaks to the continued confidence in the venture capital markets and as I had predicted some time ago the VC markets right now are a great place to invest – especially relative to other places to put one’s money. That’s why the best firms tend to raise every three years. But on a relative basis we feel blessed.

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OCTOBER 20, 2008

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association released their Q3 2008 venture capital numbers over the weekend, finding that Southern California companies raised nearly $751 in funding during the quarter. in deals, followed by Orange County with $186.9M, then San Diego with $178.4M

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

So you ended up here in San Diego because of Intuit? Tom Allanson: Yes, I came to San Diego in 2000 to run the tax business for Intuit, including the TurboTax group. I decided to get back to startups in August of 2008. The product has now been on the market for a little over a year.

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JULY 16, 2010

Last week, San Diego-based provider of web content classification and security services developer BrightCloud was acquired by Webroot , and we thought it would be a great opportunity to talk to founder Quinn Curtis about how the acquisition of his firm came about. How big was the team in San Diego?

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Xconomy

JULY 10, 2016

When I told Larry Bock in an email about four months ago that I had been diagnosed with cancer, the renowned San Diego life sciences investor asked if he might see me at UC San Diego’s Moores Cancer Center. Maybe we can share an infusion room,” he replied. “I will be sending good thoughts your way.”.

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JUNE 8, 2011

However, San Diego-based Deal Current (www.dealcurrent.com) appears to have found a sustainable niche in the industry--not providing daily deals, but powering those multiplying deal sites, including a number of major newspaper groups. But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business.

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OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. We’ve been fairly capital-efficient in this fast-growth e-commerce space,” Sheik said. “It

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APRIL 3, 2012

For San Diego-based Mob Science (www.mobscience.com), an injection of cash, some key advisors--and a deal with Zynga. Michael Witz: We've been building smaller, lightweight games on the Facebook platform since early 2008. We found a space in the market that we felt there was an opportunity to build a great game.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. Brought in new CEO, Russ Reeder in 2008. Pricing engine helps publishers ascertain ad inventory pricing by analyzing ad transaction data from the market/exchanges. Total raised: $5.3mm Read more: TechCrunch. __. They sponsor TWiVC.

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APRIL 16, 2010

Albert previously founded CheapCheapCheap.com, an online coupon and deal finding site, and we thought we'd hear from Albert why he thinks the local, group purchasing market is so interesting, and how he hopes to grow the service beyond just Orange County. We cater to a more specific market, and get deals specifically for those verticals.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

To fix that, San Diego-based Kazuhm (www.kazuhm.com) has created software, which uses the same kinds of distributed computing techniques made popular in the consumer world by community projects like SETI, and applied that to the enterprise. That was probably around 2008 and 2009, and Intuit had lots of data centers.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

It's an intensely competitive market in developing games for the iPhone and other mobile platforms, with thousands and thousands of titles competing for attention from users. William is in San Diego, and is a longtime gaming vet, having been at Activision in the days of The Manhole and Myst. We also have a bunch of casino games.

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JANUARY 13, 2012

Among those startups is San Diego-based Independa (www.independa.com) , which is trying to crack the code to figure out how to apply the convergence of wireless technology, cloud computing, and software to elderly care. Kian Saneii: I was at Websense here in San Diego, and my last position was General Manager of Websense Wireless.

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Software Review Cloud Computing Startup Technical Review 140

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APRIL 28, 2010

Dave’s a great guy with a good sense of humor and a broad knowledge of the market, which is why I was excited that he could be on the show. It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns. They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g. Enter ShoeDazzle.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The fund is just celebrated its first year in business, so we thought we'd catch up with Brian to hear more about what the firm is investing in, the challenges of raising a venture fund in this market, plus his view on the Los Angeles venture market. We closed our fund in August of 2008. Let's start with an overview of the fund.

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MARCH 8, 2011

That nightmare happened to Jim Carol , a serial entrepreneur who was co-founder and CEO of San Diego's PacketVideo , when his son was diagnosed with cancer. Jim Carol: I first started working on the concept in 2007, and we filed for our IRS determination letter in 2008. How long has the organization been around?

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AUGUST 11, 2016

Fast-forward to the iPhone and the smartphone explosion in 2008 with the launch of the App Store. The iPhone 6 and 6Plus arrived in late 2014, combined with the Android market, to usher in a new reality of computing potential in your pocket or purse. But First iPad. inch screen. Paper launched an iPhone version.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9 Another client of Mr. Rappaports, Mich Mathews, formerly the head of marketing for Microsoft. The units, asking $500,000 to $2 million, hit the market in about a month.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

a few days before the wheels came off of the market). We were immediately thrust into a globally competitive market for B2B collaboration tools. But the stock market continued to tank and one of our investors who had committed $12 million pulled out. Exercise hadn’t been enough of a priority in 2008-09.

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