Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2019

Summer can be a slow time in San Diego, but its startups have stayed busy. Based in Carlsbad, in northern San Diego County, Ezoic launched its platform in 2011. Read on for news of recent financings, plus upcoming opportunities to connect with the local tech community. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2013

I miss blogging because it serves as a great repository for me of my current thinking, as a way of organizing my thoughts and clarifying what I think and as a conversation started with so many of you (as Hunter Walk elegantly said, “Blog not to show how smart you are, but in the hope of soliciting feedback from smart people.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. Social media users are over 60% more likely to check email at least four times a day than those who don’t use social media. In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd.

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Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2019

A company that makes a mapping system to help doctors see high-resolution, 3D images of irregular heart rhythms in real time has raised $100 million in venture investment and a $70 million credit facility to fund its full-scale market launch. Acutus Medical, based in the northern San Diego community of Carlsbad, was founded in 2011.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2014

It’s time for every business and business person to proactively create a positive presence, before someone else puts you in a defensive mode that is hard to win. Here are some of the easiest methods Fertik and I recommend for creating positive and neutral content: Blogging. Twittering. Profile sites.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Our services range from basically any platform service to enable an entrepreneur or developer or creative, to get online with a website, or do things like set up a blog. Now, more and more, we''re extending our use cases into not just websites and blogs, but also to lots of web application use cases. Simon Anderson: It is.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

For a long time, I had a line which was, ‘Whenever I hear the word marketing, it makes me throw up a little bit in my mouth.’”. In addition to the partners’ tireless blogging, they founded TechStars, one of North America’s premier startup accelerators. Chris is the CEO of Gnip , a Foundry Group portfolio company.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2012

Is it worth my time to explore and click through to the site? Tim Sae Koo: I just graduated from USC in December of 2011, with a business entrepreneurship degree. Tim Sae Koo: As a first time entrepreneur, I've had a fair share of failures along the way. My question was, which ones are worth checking out? What's your background?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Recently the firms two founding partners (and also Managing Partners) —  Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham  — decided to transition management of the firm to Andy Weissman (who joined in 2012) and Albert Wenger (joined in 2008 and writes one of the most thoughtful blogs in our industry ).

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InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

However, Eric recently posted the following insights on his blog. From 2008 to 2011, the company paid its own bills, we were cash flow positive and we believed we could maintain this trend indefinitely. But later in 2011, new customers slowed, appointment bookings slowed and average appointment time dropped.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

In case you missed all the kerfuffle this weekend, I posted this blog post originally on TechCrunch. This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write. Still, as I’ve written in the past, what I love about blogging is the ability to have a public debate where we can all learn. I believe everything I wrote then.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2013

It’s time for every business and business person to proactively create a positive presence, before someone else puts you in a defensive mode that is hard to win. Here are some of the easiest methods Michael and I recommend for creating positive and neutral content: Blogging. Twittering. Profile sites.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 14, 2019

McLaughlin joined Silicon Valley-based Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW ) as president and CEO in 2011, ahead of its 2012 IPO. Prior to his time at Palo Alto Networks, McLaughlin was CEO of Internet infrastructure company Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN ). He served as the company’s top executive through June 2018.

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Xconomy

APRIL 16, 2018

General Assembly (GA) launched in early 2011 with an incubator in New York City that was a cross between a co-working space and a startup university. As Xconomy reported at the time, entrepreneurs and young ventures that set up shop in. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

I obviously don’t have a crystal ball so the economy could fare better than my gut, but here’s why I’m cautious for some time in 2010 or early 2011: Why is the future still so unpredictable? I’m not saying regulation will happen, but if it does it will only pile at the wrong time. My personal views?

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2014

Jeff Overall: It all started back in 2011, when I was going to the University of Santa Barbara. I saw that there were a few solutions out there people were blogging about out there, mostly about taping polarized filters on the cameras. We saw growth from just 850 filters in 2011 to 7500 filters in 2012. It was pretty funny.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

A year ago I blogged about one of my most common mantras that applies to sales, biz dev & fund raising alike: “ Time is the Enemy of all Deals.&#. When times are really good for fund raising many teams delay to maximize their valuation. Sometimes this pays off, other times it doesn’t. They get the PR bump.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2011

Just as we launched a 2010 site they go all 2011 on us! I wanted to be whimsical and have a blog as cool as Spark Capital. I appreciate your time. Next I might steal this. Thanks, guys. We didn’t want this section to be our recommendations but those of our portfolio. Sadly, I couldn’t get there. Now lay it on me.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2016

An obvious place to look for help is the venture community—Bruce Booth of Atlas Ventures pointed out in a recent blog that venture capital is doing well, and is positioned to do even better in the future. It is the hope of new blockbuster drugs that keeps government regulators at bay.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2013

Hulme, blogging at Cloud Commons , believes that the cloud will spur a jobs explosion, though the jobs descriptions will differ. An IDC study commissioned on behalf of Microsoft has shown that cloud computing will be responsible for creating nearly 14 million new jobs between 2011 and 2015.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

All the companies that graduate from the accelerator’s program work from the same office and can literally reach out and touch their investors at any time. Every graduate of the Amplify syllabus will get out of it as much as they take the time to absorb. Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. Paul Bricault Directing Traffic.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

Nascent startup markets are like fine wine, they take time to develop. Often the timing of this is luck. You hire people too fast, you over build your products, you try to force market adoption and you do PR blitzes before your product is really ready for prime time. He argued that in some cases less was more. What did he know?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

In a blog post , eBay says,” With a variety of return procedures, restrictions and policies, it’s often impossible to know what returning an eBay purchase will be like. Sometimes it can be fast and easy; other times it’s like pulling teeth.”. By 2011 the total value of goods sold on eBay was $68.6 Better Return Experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Before you start spending money and time being a user, you need to understand how it can help you and your business. Using it randomly or incorrectly is a waste of your precious time. Don’t waste their time with self-serving promotion. But simply jumping in is not enough. Producing weak, unfocused, or unhelpful content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant buying banner ads on Facebook, or buying a position on search engine results, or sponsoring some blog entries, but these doesn’t work anymore. Teens fueled that growth when in 2011 12% of teens reported using Twitter. Time to start connecting them with each other.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2019

But by the time everyone staggers to the airport or back home to sleep in their own beds, the annual few days of the J.P. [ Editor’s note: Ben Fidler and Sarah de Crescenzo coauthored this report.] It is here, and then it is gone.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 16, 2012

million in Series A funding and a launch in Chicago, Getaround , is coming to a city near you to help residents make money from sharing their cars even on a full time basis, thanks to its beta service Getaway. Getaround was launched in May 2011 in San Fransisco by Sam Zaid, Elliot Kroo and Jessica Scorpio. After a $13.9

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 3, 2011

If you have not yet discovered Everything Is A Remix , I strongly encourage you to invest the time to check it out. Like music, movies and blog entries, startups are a remix of that which came before. Note: On May 16th, 2011, The New Yorker published an excellent article by Malcolm entitled, Creation Myth. You be the judge.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

The New York Times recently ran an article titled, “ Tech Companies Leave Phone Calls Behind.” ” I love the NY Times and am a paying subscriber. According to Forrester Research (2011 report) 77% users who abandoned an online purchase cite the inability to speak to some as their primary reason for leaving.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 9, 2012

In November 2011, Google’s spring clean saw a number of services shut down like Knol, Friend Connect and Google Wave. Matt Eichner, General Manager, Global Enterprise Search in a blog post says;” Technology creates tremendous opportunities to improve people’s lives.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Very few places at the time on the internet acted like that (in fact, very few places still do). A new social pipeline, the quick blogging style, the similarity to texting: all these things were great for Twitter. It proved its effectiveness at connecting to real time cultural moments when Oreo tweeted during the Super Bowl.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2011

In this space, you can create or reuse your favorite online content from YouTube, Flickr, Slideshare, Twitter, Google Maps, Facebook, your blog and more by simply dragging and dropping any or all of it onto one canvas, which you can then republish anywhere you wish. How big is your team?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

At the same time, if the entity were to raise capital, any dropping share of the company below 50% for US share holders would disqualify the foreign investors from the E visa. According to the official press release on Senator Moran’s blog. Unfortunately, the visa requires that the entity be majorly owned by U.S. and Mark Warner (D-Va.)

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Fun Fact: One of the most prominent figures from their firm, Mark Suster t, runs a blog startups follow religiously. An ad:tech Innovation Award-winning company, SteelHouse is the technology industry’s real-time marketing solution for online retailers. Make sure to check out Both Sides of the Table ! Social Enterprise: Hub LA.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

As lawyers in the social media and Internet law space, this duo brings to the table practical experience counseling clients in real time and explaining breaking legal news in plain English. Christina blogs in the Technology section of The Huffington Post [ [link] ]. Christina holds a B.A. from the University of San Francisco.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

All the companies that graduate from the accelerator’s program work from the same office and can literally reach out and touch their investors at any time. Every graduate of the Amplify syllabus will get out of it as much as they take the time to absorb. Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. Paul Bricault Directing Traffic.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Biotech CEO Jonathan Lim co-founded Ignyta in 2011 to commercialize a new approach to diagnosing and treating rheumatoid arthritis, based on discoveries that showed how changes in methyl group molecules associated with the human genome could change the way genes function. Lim (pictured above) was lucky in some respects, though.

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