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Xconomy Special Report: 12 San Diego Tech Startup to Watch in 2017

Xconomy

I started with a list of companies already screened by the San Diego Venture Group’s annual venture summit, and consulted with investors and startup mentors to refine the list. I widened my net this year. Such lists can be entirely relative, but I sought to adjust for the capricious effects of subjectivity.

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Special Report 2069: Predicting the Internet’s Next 50 Years

Xconomy

Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. Back in 2014, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee’s seminal paper proposing the World Wide Web, the Pew Research Center asked an. Because if we could, we’d all be bankrupt.

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Pernix Therapeutics Slashes Staff to Shake Up Sales Strategy

Xconomy

In 2014, Pernix, then based in The Woodlands, TX, acquired San Diego-based Somaxon Pharmaceuticals. million in net revenue last year, its highest sales mark since becoming a public company in 2010, according to its annual report. But filings also show the company’s net losses widening each year since 2012.

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LabCorp Boosts Prenatal Testing Presence with $371M Sequenom Deal

Xconomy

LabCorp will also assume net debt of San Diego-based Sequenom (NASDAQ: SQNM ), bringing the value of the cash deal to approximately $371 million. million net loss, the company laid off 13 percent of its workforce as part of a series of cost-cutting measures. per share, for a total equity value of $302 million.

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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

Both Sides of the Table

We also promoted Jordan Hudson to principal in 2014 and have encouraged him to begin looking at deals. Geographically our strategy is to fund about 50% of our deals in Southern California (from San Diego to Santa Barbara) and 50% of our deals on a national basis. Family Offices (of high-net-worth individuals or families).

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. Downtown San Diego Condos. To create a campuslike setting for its more than 500 employees in L.A., Investing Tools.