Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement. The best communities then become your advocate. Identify the influencers of these communities.

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Xconomy

APRIL 4, 2017

billion in 1,797 startups in the first three months of the year. venture firms refueled last year by raising a near-record $51.6 According to the latest Venture Monitor report, VCs invested slightly more than $16.5 That’s down almost 12 percent from the $18.7 Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

APRIL 6, 2017

million that VCs invested in San Diego startups in the same quarter in 2016, and off nearly 17 percent from the $420.3 That was down 39 percent from the $574.5 million invested in the prior quarter, according to PitchBook data. Nationally, VC investments continued to decelerate in the first quarter , with some $16.5 billion invested.

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Xconomy

APRIL 6, 2017

On Thursday, the FDA gave the Mountain View, CA-based genetic testing startup the green light to market these tests directly to consumers. The FDA says its marketing authorization for 23andMe is the first covering any direct-to-consumer genetic tests.

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Xconomy

APRIL 4, 2017

Viracta Therapeutics, a San Diego anti-cancer biotech that has been operating below the radar for nearly two years, is today disclosing an initial closing on what could amount to as much as $18.4 million in Series B financing.

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Xconomy

APRIL 4, 2017

We have posted the agenda for Human Impact of Innovation , which happens on April 19 at The Illumina Theater at the Alexandria Torrey Pines in San Diego. Xconomy is convening this meeting with leaders from academia and industry to talk about some big innovations that are expected to bring major changes on people’s lives.

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Xconomy

APRIL 6, 2017

Amid the ongoing conversation about gender discrimination in the tech industry, and recent sexual harassment claims against some of its biggest names, here’s some sort-of good news about women in tech: When companies make job offers to both men and women, women receive lower salary offers 63 percent of the time for the same job, according to San Francisco-based (..)

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