SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 10, 2012

This free class is an orientation to help newcomers to the startup scene get acquainted with the exciting world of tech in Los Angeles. We will canvas key events/meetups to attend, people, companies, VCs, blogs, hot issues, and more. After class you are welcome to network with a number of prominent folks in the ecosystem.

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Riot Games Startup Class Incubator 113

Xconomy

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The drug, eptinezumab (Vyepti), is part of a new class of antibody therapies developed to prevent migraine attacks before they start. The first three drugs from this class that won FDA approval for migraine prevention are injectable therapies.

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Class Acquisition Marketing Develop 105

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Reserve some time each day for your favorite blogs and influencers, follow up with social networking and expand your personal contacts offline. These include the classes in school that focus on case studies and team exercises, but extend beyond the academic world to professional and industry seminars.

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Tips Startup Case Study Course 122

Xconomy

APRIL 22, 2020

In every new (drug) class there’s always been people. Given the number of late-stage and mid-stage studies expected to report data in 2020—assuming they stay on track amid the COVID-19 pandemic—this could be a pivotal year for the field, said Isabelle de Cremoux, CEO and managing partner of Seventure Partners.

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Class Study Research Report 138

InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years. It has also influenced my thoughts, as evidenced by the six infoChachkie blog entries which reference Art. I look forward to incorporating Enchantment into my Selling classes’ curriculum. .

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Technical Review Blogging Class Entrepreneur 279

Xconomy

MAY 3, 2019

The first new class of migraine drugs in decades won FDA approval last year. The new class of migraine drugs are called calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) inhibitors, named for a protein associated with the development of migraine pain. By blocking CGRP, the drugs are meant to abort migraine. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Class Develop Development San Diego 89

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

XRC Labs, an accelerator program focused on e-commerce and retail startups, held a demo day for its latest class Thursday, featuring innovations in artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and other technologies.

Artificial Inteligence 97

Artificial Inteligence Class Commerce Design 97

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?) Instead of doing guest posts on TechCrunch or speaking at startup conferences, Tracy became a regular contributor on wedding and women’s lifestyle blogs.

Startup 363

Startup Entrepreneur SEO Venture Capital 363

Xconomy

JUNE 12, 2019

These huge lecture classes enroll hundreds of students, which can make them overwhelming in size, and the material can be difficult. If students stumble in these initial classes, research from the Association of American Universities. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Equity Class Education Course 85

Xconomy

JULY 24, 2017

San Diego’s Effector Therapeutics, a five-year-old cancer drug developer, has raised $38.6 million in new venture capital funding. The Series C financing, led by Pfizer Venture Investments, brings total funding for Effector to about $150 million, CEO Steve Worland said late Monday.

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Class Venture Capital Funding Invest 59

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2010

The topic I chose to speak about was “lessons on starting a company&# but I created the sub-title in class “a Silicon Valley heresy&# since my goal was to slay many of the myths I believe exist right in the heart of Silicon Valley! Afterward, I came and spoke to her (and Steve’s) class on entrepreneurship. True, that.

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Startup Class Blogging Entrepreneur 312

Xconomy

MAY 20, 2020

Under the agreement the companies plan to focus on a class of proteins known as E3 ligases, Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Class Design San Diego Company 117

Xconomy

JANUARY 27, 2020

By month’s end, five more are anticipated to join the class of 2020 initial public offerings—and four of those are in life sciences, according to IPO research firm Renaissance Capital. So far this year four privately held companies have made the transition to trading on the public markets.

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Westlake Village Class Research Capital 109

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 20, 2010

I recently read a book I'd highly recommend to every reader of this blog called "Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive” by Robert B. John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. If you are not already a subscriber of Mark’s Both Sides of the Table blog , you need to be.

Southern California 113

Southern California GRP Partners Blogging SoCal 113

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Stealth mode normally means no time for search engine optimization prior to product launch, not to mention relevant blogging activity, and link building. Operating in stealth mode for an extended period tends to convince entrepreneurs to believe their own biases, and visibly fight the need to change. Optimize your web history and presence.

Marketing 105

Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization Ideas 105

Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2019

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. That opening to biotech startups in 2014 was controversial at the time.

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Incubator Class Artificial Inteligence Startup 108

Xconomy

JULY 26, 2019

Yet Frenkel, a participant in the summer 2015 class at Y Combinator , an influential Silicon Valley accelerator program, raised $120,000 from investors by August that year. Early this year, she sold her company, This is L. , to Cincinnati, OH-based Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG ).

Software Engineering 110

Software Engineering Class Startup Software 110

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Design together, the course that introduced the idea for brightblu, they were concurrently taking three other classes: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Art of the CEO. The biggest motivator for starting brightblu was John Greathouse’s Entrepreneurship class.

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Class Startup Santa Barbara RSS 231

Xconomy

APRIL 27, 2020

The Neurocrine drug, opicapone (Ongentys), is part of a class of. About 50,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease yearly. After Alzheimer’s disease, the condition is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder in the country. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Class San Diego Develop Development 90

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2011

Yet being in a fraternity was one of the most transformative experiences I had in college and prepared me better for becoming an entrepreneur than any class that I took. By the end of my sophomore year I had taken on the role of education for our new freshman pledges and by the first quarter of my junior year I led the pledge class entirely.

Startup 365

Startup Class UCSD Blogging 365

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2020

Stealth mode normally means no time for search engine optimization prior to product launch, not to mention relevant blogging activity, and link building. Operating in stealth mode for an extended period tends to convince entrepreneurs to believe their own biases, and visibly fight the need to change. Optimize your web history and presence.

Search Engine Optimization 174

Search Engine Optimization Ideas Startup Customer 174

Xconomy

APRIL 3, 2019

Often, that means persevering in pursuit of a mission, whether that’s proving a new class of drugs can work, turning around a company that’s facing financial difficulties, battling much larger competitors, convincing investors to back cutting-edge technology, or successfully building a company in an area that has been historically poorly funded.

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San Diego Class Funding Technology 104

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2011

We know that if you start with ho-hum founders you’re less likely to assemble a world-class team. Find people to “punch above their weight class”. I wrote an entire blog post about this in the past highlighting my belief that you should hire people who “punch above their weight class.” Don’t sacrifice. It’s a mistake.

Startup 399

Startup Class Blogging Company 399

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

This drug class has seen a lift in recent years. Some of those analysts think Gilead might have overpaid but the company says there were competing offers. The drug, sacitizumab govitecan (Trodelvy), is what’s called an antibody drug conjugate (ADC). Four years ago, there were just three FDA-approved ADCs. The FDA has approved.

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Class Acquisition LAVA San Diego 67

Xconomy

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Gossamer Bio, the San Diego-based biotech founded by former Receptos executives, has raised $276 million in its initial public offering, a total that puts it in a rare class among biotechs that have gone public in recent years. The amount raised surpassed expectations.

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San Diego Class Pricing Marketing 99

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

It’s important enough that I dedicate a tab on my blog to startup sales & marketing. 15:00 Hire somebody who will punch above their weight class. It’s the lifeblood of any organization and yet most startups don’t have any sales DNA on their teams. 10:00 Selling eyeballs & selling audience.

Software Review 300

Software Review Sales Tips Help 300

socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2012

We thought we'd get the pitch from Tim Sae Koo , the founder of the company, on how he took the idea from his business class at USC and turned it into a company, which is now part of one of the local startup accelerators in town, StartEngine. What is interesting about this, is I came up with this idea from my entrepreneurship class.

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USC Startup Web Ideas 252

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 21, 2009

great Yahoo blog post here). Last week, after a quick trip to Dallas and back, I had the privilege of speaking in front of a high school class at Dos Pueblos High in Santa Barbara, California. I had a blast co-hosting that event with Jeff Pulver and it was a huge success thanks to Yahoo!

Draper 113

Draper Santa Barbara Yahoo Class 113

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 21, 2009

great Yahoo blog post here). Last week, after a quick trip to Dallas and back, I had the privilege of speaking in front of a high school class at Dos Pueblos High in Santa Barbara, California. I had a blast co-hosting that event with Jeff Pulver and it was a huge success thanks to Yahoo!

Draper 113

Draper Santa Barbara Yahoo Class 113

Xconomy

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Amid all the fuss over cell, gene, and immunotherapies these days, an old-fashioned small-molecule class of drug called PARP inhibitors have steadily made progress in tough-to-treat cancers. We’ve highlighted a few top stories for you.

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Class Conference News San Diego 88

Tech.Co

OCTOBER 28, 2020

A just-announced partnership between the social giant TikTok and the ecommerce giant Shopify could mint a brand-new class of TikTok-friendly ecommerce stores. The new team-up has a lot of moving parts: Shopify even termed it a “first-of-its-kind” partnership in its announcement blog post. How the Partnership Works.

Help 150

Help Platform Startup Social Media 150

Xconomy

APRIL 12, 2017

Lymber, named as a 2017 Xconomy San Diego startup to watch , has developed a technology platform that enables mobile users to book openings in fitness and wellness classes. Lymber aggregates data about the real-time availability of fitness and wellness classes for its users, with about half that data coming from Mindbody, Hecht explained.

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San Diego Class Mobile Platform 75

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

If MedCo’s cholesterol-lowering drug inclisiran wins FDA approval, it will become the third entry in a new class of medicines that block a cholesterol-boosting protein called PCSK9. But the first mover isn’t infallible if someone else has something better. That’s something the The Medicines Co. is counting on.

Pricing 84

Pricing Class Study Marketing 84

Xconomy

JANUARY 14, 2020

As the nation grapples with the ongoing opioid crisis, an FDA advisory panel on Tuesday unanimously voted against recommending approval of a Nektar Therapeutics painkiller that would add a new compound to the drug class—even though it was designed to reduce the risk of abuse. See below. ]

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Class Design San Diego Company 71

Xconomy

OCTOBER 23, 2018

We’ve sorted the headlines into a few big categories: immunotherapy combinations, breast cancer, lung cancer, the growing class of drugs called PARP inhibitors, and new drugs that treat tumors based on genetic signature.

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Conference Class Study News 93

Xconomy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The company is developing antibody drug conjugates, a class of cancer drug that links antibodies to potent cancer-fighting toxins. The new VelosBio cash, a Series A round of financing, was led by Arix Bioscience (LSE: ARIX ) and Sofinnova Ventures. VelosBio joined Johnson & Johnson’s JLABS @ San Diego incubator in January.

San Diego 91

San Diego Incubator Class Study 91

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. Email updates frequently.

Tips 365

Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365