Xconomy
AUGUST 30, 2016
The Contextual Robotics Institute will be looking to spin out startups, license its technology advances, and educate students who can meet the tech industry’s enormous demand for robotics experts. Hylton’s appointment comes less than two months after UC San Diego named Henrik Christensen as director of the robotics institute.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.” He built & IPOd Demand Media.
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Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 14, 2016
I’ll spare you the math and point out that this means we funded 0.104% of the market. I am highly unlikely to fund your company strictly based on math and my only motive for publicly telling you what is going on privately is to help prepare you if in fact I’m right about the funding environment. Mostly, no.
SoCal Delicious
AUGUST 23, 2010
Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. He runs the Southern California Venture Capital Alliance (VCA) and is on the board of advisors for the venture capital fund of the UCSD Rady School of Business.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 28, 2011
“Imagine you were a Phd wireless chip designer out of UCSD and then Qualcomm. I honestly believe I learned more by rising up the ranks and becoming the president of my fraternity than I did in the class room reading about supply & demand curves in economics. VCs fund people all the time with no traction. Dig deeper.
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