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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

Both Sides of the Table

In one year of Airbnb Tracy netted more than $28,000. Tracy is knowledgeable enough to talk tech and swap design & product stories with other founders, but she realized early that networking amongst this group and reading and writing in their journals would not bring her more customers. So her wedding story had a happy ending.

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Bio Roundup: FDA Says No, PCSK9 Value Fight, CRISPR Intrigue & More

Xconomy

And once in a while, a defender uses his or her face, inadvertently, to block a ball spiked over the net. Talk about sacrifice. If drug approval were an Olympic sport, rejections would also be high drama. Everyone is waiting until 2017, when huge studies of the drugs’ ability to prevent heart attacks and strokes start to provide data.

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Bio Roundup: Mylan’s Shock, Hillary’s 3%, Duchenne Lessons & More

Xconomy

Its latest hike has brought the two-pack of injectors to more than $600, according to the Wall Street Journal. Frank Vinluan has more on Novan, which relied on a variety of high net worth individuals, rather than venture firms, to get to this point.

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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

Professor Journal. Student Journal. Developments Blog. Mark Holtzman for The Wall Street Journal. Mark Holtzman for The Wall Street Journal). edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Tech Titans Hit the Beach. MarketWatch. MarketWatch. AllThingsDigital. AllThingsDigital. Financial News.

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Bio Roundup: Clinical Shirkers, AMD Worriers, ASH Fallers & More

Xconomy

—Doctors testing a combination of two immunotherapy checkpoint inhibitors, nivolumab (Opdivo) and ipilimumab (Yervoy), reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that two melanoma patients in the trial died of heart problems. —Several other biotechs released ASH abstract data, and the net effect was a drop in most stocks.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 3. Virtual Location, Location, Location

Frank Addante

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! My solution: cast a wider net. ► October (1) New Video!

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 2 Ears and 1 Mouth: There's a Reason

Frank Addante

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! I think that safety net goes away after the 5th grade. ► October (1) New Video! I disagree.

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