Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Be open & transparent (mimicking the greater social order changes that have come with blogs & social media). When he starts his blog I’ll let you know. So I put the blog on the back burner to stay focused on those busy times. But I miss blogging. I couldn’t believe the quality intro.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2016

And I’m going to cross post this entire post on Facebook as an experiment rather than just posting a link on FB and trying to drive people to my blog. So if you’re reading this on Facebook (or on my blog!) Twitter was my public chat board, my place to share blog content, my place to ask public questions and to debate.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

Founded in 2014, Glossier is widely touted as one of the earliest breakout successes of the DTC model, and raised its Series E last July at a $1.8 The company built its own point-of-sale system and commerce APIs in-house, allowing them to deliver a “seamless” customer experience, former Glossier CTO Bryan Mahoney said in 2018.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 8, 2019

However, that wasn’t the problem San Diego startup LabFellows was looking to solve when it launched in 2014. Scientists, no matter how sexy the research they’re conducting, aren’t immune from the administrative minutiae of office life. Such tasks steal time away from researchers’ main objectives.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2019

That opening to biotech startups in 2014 was controversial at the time. Five years ago, the big tech incubator Y Combinator started to welcome life sciences companies into its sizable startup classes, which had previously nurtured entrepreneurs in information technology almost exclusively.

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Xconomy

JUNE 21, 2017

A 2014 report provided a stark frame of reference for the challenge of fighting Alzheimer’s disease, showing that 99.6 percent of all drugs in the field had failed in one way or another. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Among the notable exits was San Diego’s Lumena Pharmaceuticals, which Irish pharmaceutical giant Shire (NASDAQ: SHPG ) bought for more than $260 million in 2014. Nearly half of the businesses in its portfolio have either been acquired or gone public, according to RiverVest. At the time, Lumena’s chairman was RiverVest.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In a blogpost touting student successes, Udacity co-founder Sebastian Thrun (pictured above in 2014) said Nanodegree graduates are reporting average salary increases of 33 percent in the United States and Canada when they score new jobs after updating. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2014

How much will social media fame cost you in 2014? As a bonus, you''ll also enjoy a robust number of Pinterest, Tumbler and Instagram followers and you''ll still have room in your budget for 250 comments on your blog and about 100,000 views on Vimeo. Thus, in 2014, accrue your social media status the old-fashioned way - earn it.

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Xconomy

JULY 24, 2019

It’s a boon for the South San Francisco startup founded in 2014, but not an unusual haul for competitors in the same field, where the tantalizing promise of a simple test to find cancer sooner, when it is much easier to treat, has emerged from advances in DNA sequencing, sophisticated data crunching, and the understanding of cancer biology.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

And as Battery Ventures investor Sanjiv Kalevar noted in a blog post last year , the opportunity for software companies serving blue-collar workers is huge.

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2019

Back in 2014, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee’s seminal paper proposing the World Wide Web, the Pew Research Center asked an. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. Because if we could, we’d all be bankrupt.

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Xconomy

MARCH 22, 2019

The company, which started operations in 2014, has raised nearly $148 million since inception. Turning Point Therapeutics, which is developing targeted cancer drugs for patients whose tumors resist other precision therapies, has outlined plans for an IPO.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Founded in 2014 by CEO Adam Markowitz, Portfolium sells academic institutions access to what it calls its ePortfolio network, which, along with hosting student portfolios, also offers student assessments and job matching services. Instructure (NYSE: INST ) has agreed to acquire privately held Portfolium.

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Xconomy

MAY 20, 2019

Grey, who was president and CEO of Lumuna from 2011 through its 2014 acquisition by Irish drugmaker Shire (now part of Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

(EDC), which conducted the study, to analyze how cybersecurity has changed since 2014, when the first cybersecurity industry analysis led to the creation of the Cyber Center of Excellence. That was up 19 percent from the 2014 study, which had 102 cybersecurity firms with 3,550 workers. billion in 2014. That represents a 9.5

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Four of them have received FDA-approval since 2014 to treat subsets of patients with ovarian and breast cancer. They’re typically used in “maintenance” settings, meant to keep cancer at bay after chemotherapy. Yet PARP inhibitors have been a tough sell.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 22, 2018

He had joined the Parsippany, NJ, drug maker when it bought Rempex Pharmaceuticals in 2014. Qpex is led by Michael Dudley, the former chief scientific officer of The Medicines Company. That company was developing. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

APRIL 4, 2018

When Versant Ventures, Roche, and Inception Sciences came together in 2014 to identify drugs that could repair damaged neurons, they were placing a bet on technology that amounted to a promising tool in a broader quest to find new ways to treat patients with multiple sclerosis. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

APRIL 26, 2019

Mike Krenn, who became president of SDVG in August of 2014, will become CEO of the merged organization, which will assume the name Connect. The previous Connect’s president and CEO of five years, Greg McKee, stepped down earlier this year to launch Torrent Ventures, a venture fund.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Kristina Tsvetanova says she found the motivation for her startup Blitab in 2014, when a blind colleague’s struggle to communicate via the Internet made her conscious of the barriers facing visually impaired people in a digital world.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Back in 2014, I wrote a column intended to help consumers walk away from their. With the growing interest in cord-cutting, you’d think it would be getting easier to find alternative sources for broadband Internet service. But no, it’s actually a bit more complicated than it used to be, because there are more options to choose from.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2018

When he rejoined civilian life in 2014, Hafer says he wanted to transition into working with something for which he already had a passion. But the one thing he could do something about was the terrible coffee. “I I started roasting my own coffee and taking it with me overseas,” he says. “I That was the start of Black Rifle Coffee. “My

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

It partnered with Nike in Portland, OR , on apparel-related technology in 2012 and with Barclays on fintech in 2014. In 2011, Techstars began launching accelerators that focused on startups innovating in a specific sector in partnership with big companies.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Peter Lee is the Microsoft Research executive in charge of the NExT initiative—an effort quietly begun in 2014 by CEO Satya Nadella and Harry Shum, head of the company’s A.I. division, to convert select projects from the company’s global research apparatus into business opportunities.

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Xconomy

MAY 15, 2018

billion—Juno had gone public in 2014 and Celgene paid $9 billion beyond the large stake it had already purchased. In December, Denali Therapeutics raised about $250 million in 2017’s biggest biotech IPO. This January, Juno Therapeutics was acquired by Celgene at a valuation of some $10.97

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

René Pinnell says he and his wife Selena Pinnell were “blown away” by the virtual reality projects their friends were creating in 2014, so they looked for an entrepreneurial niche that would allow them to support such artists. That year the couple, both trained in design, founded a startup in San Francisco, then called KaleidoscopeVR.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2017

Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN ), a San Diego-based company that was a pioneer in gene sequencing technology, founded the accelerator in 2014, along with Russian billionaire Yuri Milner.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2017

The algorithm to manipulate music tempo based on steps didn’t come in until mid-2014, because it was really challenging to develop that software,” he said. The following year, the startup created an algorithm that automatically adjusts the rhythm and tempo of songs to match the user’s pace and heart rate. We’re manipulating.

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Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2019

Lyft’s pricey showing rivals Alibaba’s 2014 IPO as one of the largest deal sizes ever among US IPOs, according to. Lyft sold 30.8 million shares at $72 apiece, according to Renaissance Capital —the top of a new range that Lyft originally set at $62 to $68. The company was valued at $15.1

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The company isn’t disclosing how much was invested, but says the round brings the total it has raised since its 2014 founding to more than $10 million. On Tuesday, Sensemetrics announced it has closed its first institutional funding round, which it is calling its Series A investment. CEO Matt Meehan says Sensemetrics.

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Xconomy

MARCH 14, 2017

founded in 2014 by the gene pioneer J. Human Longevity Inc., Craig Venter to create a database for interpreting the human genome (and to make healthcare more proactive instead of reactive) said it has signed a partnership deal with MassMutual.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2017

In the years since the tour’s inception in 2014, Case says he’s become “quite encouraged” by the momentum he sees building in the middle of the country. However, he also says there is more work to be done. The story is still not well-understood by media and others on.

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Xconomy

MARCH 15, 2017

Spun out of Harvard University in 2014—one of the firm’s cofounders is Harvard’s George Church, a leading geneticist—eGenesis wants to increase the supply of organs for desperate patients.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The La Jolla, CA, company, which was founded as an SGI subsidiary in 2014 but was formally spun out about six months ago, is headed by CEO. . —SGI-DNA, a recent spinout of Synthetic Genomics (SGI), has raised a $25 million Series A financing round led by Northpond Ventures. Oxford Finance and BroadOak Capital Partners also participated.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

For example, mobile now has become the formidable new communication channel, posting a year-over-year growth rate of 47 percent in 2014, according to WBR Digital Research. I still see too many websites that look like they have had no updates or blogs in months or even years. Blogs must provide value to customers.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

The new Microsoft Ventures will seek investments that fall outside the commercial deals that the company has done more frequently in the past, writes Nagraj Kashyap, corporate vice president of Microsoft Ventures, in a blog post announcing the new effort. That forms one end of the company’s spectrum of startup activities.

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