socalTECH

MAY 10, 2018

Behzad Kianmahd is the co-founder of Los Angeles coworking space Cross Campus , which is one of the major centers of startup activity in Silicon Beachand also involved as co-founder and lead investor in a brand new, venture capital fund, TAU Ventures (www.ideasimmersion.com/tau-ventures/). Behzad Kianmahd: There's a bit of a history there.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Ciara Kennedy, who succeeded Mike Grey as Amplyx CEO late last year, said in an interview with Xconomy that the company plans to report results of its Phase 1 study at IDWeek, the annual infectious diseases conference that is set for early October in San Diego. But raising $67.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds. ” Case studies get done with ebullient CEO’s espousing the benefits of said software even though their organization was barely using the product. ROI studies were published. And importantly we’ve had revenue.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

I studied cognitive science, the study of the brain, as an undergraduate. Elizabeth Amini: I actually ran into him in 2005, when he was a keynote speaker at a conference. How is the firm funded? Elizabeth Amini: We're privately funded by the founders. But, we never were looking for funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 9, 2019

I fund startups for a living and before that I ran two software startups that I founded. During a customer pilot, a Fortune 1000 company discovered that an 8-person conference room was used by 3 or fewer people for 78% of all business hours; it was used by 8 people (its intended capacity) just 3% of the time.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The idea for the funding program, called Safe Genes, is to get out ahead of problems that could bring the field to a screeching halt. “We should couple innovation with biosecurity,” DARPA program manager Renee Wegrzyn, said Tuesday at the SynBioBeta conference in South San Francisco. Safe Genes was announced last month.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. They’re tasked with doing … marketing. You get a lot of traffic – not always results.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2010

These are the people who want to see ROI studies (business), read NY Times reviews by David Pogue or WSJ reviews by Walt Mossberg (consumer). Here are some examples of heroes in action: A testimonial / quote from a hero on the banner on the home page of your website with their image and a link to a case study on how they used the product.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Even as all eyes were on the American Society of Hematology (ASH) conference in downtown San Diego this week, other biotech companies were staying busy. Let’s get caught up with the latest life sciences news in San Diego.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 7, 2016

The firm will now focus on its miniLab, which CEO Elizabeth Holmes touted as a follow-on version of its Edison test system at a scientific conference in August. The funding could be as much as $100 million, and the first grants will be announced in 2017. She refused to discuss Edison at the time. —The U.S. THE ENVELOPE, PLEASE.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Ionis (NASDAQ: IONS ) and its partner, Cambridge, MA-based Biogen (NASDAQ: BIIB ), this morning reported an interim look at an ongoing Phase 3 study of nusinersen—an RNA-based drug meant to help treat patients with SMA. Ionis will complete the ongoing Phase 3 studies before transitioning everything to Biogen.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

Most top tier VCs return about 3x invested capital and outlier funds (the best of a vintage) might return 6-8x. It’s true this was much bigger in the dot com era but I’ve studied the data and know that over the past decade these numbers are right. You invest across many funds just as VCs invest across many companies.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2011

Freebinar gives them a solution that includes screen sharing, voice over IP audio, broadcast, conference calling, and allow you to meet with as many as 150 people at the same time. Costin Tuculescu: I cam out of UC Irvine as a software engineer, studying computer science. What's your background, and how did you get into this?

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. I Be specific. It's a great talk. It's a great talk.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

There has recently been a common theme among the entrepreneurs I have interviewed and the conferences I have attended: despite the relatively weak state of the world economy, now is a great time to create a high-tech startup. At the end of the period studied, 94.5% People are free or cheap because of the recession.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 28, 2016

—As the North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference kicked off in Orlando, FL, Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: VRTX ) said a key part of its plan to defend its industry-leading cystic fibrosis franchise is moving forward. DEALS AND FUNDINGS. It’s the first time a cancer immunotherapy has been approved in a first-line setting.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 15, 2017

According to one study, there were over 835,000 people working out of coworking spaces last year. The largest VC backed companies in this space have raised several hundreds of millions in funding to help expand their global footprint. You also can always jump into a phone booth, conference room or other quiet areas. .

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2017

We have done both retrospective proof-of-concept and also prospective studies to prove out the concept, which is based on probably 100 papers worth of articles published in scientific journals. Let's talk about the recent funding round? Alan Horsager: The funding originally started with a convertible note, through the Pasadena Angels.

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Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

Guardant is funding a series of trials around the country in people whose genetic or lifestyle profiles put them at high risk of five types of cancer. —At the annual BIO conference, which gathered in San Francisco for the first time since cops battled street protesters in 2004, industry bigwigs took to the stage to defend themselves.

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Xconomy

JUNE 17, 2016

Data from a hematology conference stoked dreams of approval, though still on a far horizon, for a couple drug makers. Familiar biotech names—not necessarily familiar for the right reasons—made news this week in biotech. Long anticipated, Walgreens officially cut ties with Theranos , and the FDA both gave and denied approvals.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

Ryan Disraeli: I was studying business with an emphasis on entrepreneurship. We were trying to acquire customers, and Darren and Stacy know I spent all of my time on customer acquisition, everything from cold calls and emails to sending things in the mail, going to conferences and walking around and trying to pitch people at their booth.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Just last month, a startup Tsien cofounded announced a round of funding to push ahead with a fluorescent technology that aims to help surgeons cut out tumors without removing healthy tissue. For more on Tsien and the rest of the week’s news, let’s get to the roundup.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Some days I respond to questions asked by folks like yourself, the press, or an entity doing a case study, i.e. Citrix, RIM, USC. My company and I are a perfect case study for the Tech Council affiliation. A day might include a discussion with a finance partner, an investor, a customer or a fusion partner. I consider it INVALUABLE!

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Luckily, I had always been a “hands-on” professional, and I had learned the pragmatics of people leadership, marketing, management tools, and funding. It is not limited to the realm of the top executive or board of directors, who could bring in consultants for studies and analysis. Market yourself and work at all organizational levels.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

In April 2011, the Association of Coupon Professionals held an Industry Conference in Atlanta to address the present and future state of couponing. Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms. A study conducted by Rice University’s Jesse H. Paul Breummer, Search Engine Land.

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Xconomy

JULY 15, 2016

After last week’s revelation of three patient deaths in its leading cancer immunotherapy trial, the FDA suspended the study. All eyes are on Holmes, who is scheduled to present data from the company’s technology at a medical conference on August 1. million in funding, according to a regulatory filing. —With $1.25

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

A tech conference? They will discuss the importance of pairing global peace initiatives with economic opportunities that can lead to a more sustainable future, using Afghanistan as a case study. That’s right, the founder of the largest hedge fund firm in the world is going to be at SXSW 2018. Is it a music festival?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

He attended The Ohio State University where he studied business. In November 2011 I was honored at the White House as an Empact100 recipient and participated in the FEE Summit conference (Now Empact Summit). Any funding yet? We have received seed funding from a friend and it is personally funded. What Inspired You?

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2009

I was speaking on a conference and panel about branding and experience with my last company, we got along, and chatted. We've been doing case studies, and we've found that people don't want to be stuck with money and nothing to give. Eden Jarrin: We're privately funded, at this time not by venture capital.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

So, I came back into the ecosystem, started attending the game and developer conferences, and really started asking the hard questions to executives in the industry, and figuring out where the underserved areas were in the industry. He was just a friend from church, and we actually connected at church through bible study.

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Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

Those were some of the topics of a question-and-answer panel held at Xconomy’s Robo Madness West 2016 conference last month. What are some examples of government-funded research in AI and robotics that is happening today that will set the stage for tomorrow’s products? What are the risks and ethics around AI systems?

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