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TYLT Labs' New Seed Fund And The Promise Of Silicon Beach

socalTECH

Anyone can talk a good game, and put together a proforma that looks great, and there are lots of great looking ideas, and people can even all have filed a provisional patent. We''re really looking for that first and foremost. But, can you really get out there and get customers, and get those customers to repeat orders? Why not Los Angeles?

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Biotech Roundup: Deals Gone Wrong, Ethical Red Flags & Bay Goodbyes

Xconomy

Merck also saw some expected fruits of its 2014 big-ticket acquisition of Cubist Pharmaceuticals wither away this week, as the Supreme Court wouldn’t reverse a decision that shaved years off the patent life of the top-selling antibiotic daptomyicin (Cubicin). billion acquisition of San Diego’s Auspex Pharmaceuticals last year.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

So far at the company I have raised seed funds of $500,000 of which $470,000 is still in the bank so I’m in pretty good shape. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. It is usual for the partners to stroll in 20 minutes after your appointment so at best you have 40.