Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

LendingClub helped to pioneer the model, saying in November 2012 that it had surpassed $1 billion in loans issued since 2006, when it was founded. billion in loans since 2012, when its business “morphed” into an alternative lender, according to founder and CEO Dave Gilbert. million in 2012 to more than $59 million in 2015.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 15, 2015

Launched in Los Angeles in 2012, early-­stage venture capital firm Karlin Ventures has announced a new elite tech fellowship program that will kickoff today. Confirmed experts leading the first two sessions include Dan Macklin, co­founder and VP of business development at SoFi and Raja Subramoni, head of product marketing at Sonos.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2012

Marketers see it as a better way to target customers, but the current consumer offerings have been slow to deliver. Event marketing. If you know your contacts’ real-life interests, you could use that information in your marketing efforts. Are you seeing a lot of your contacts attending certain business events?

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 24, 2016

In 2012, my company plundered and it was horrific…bygones. I had no issue with this and actually helped him by marketing his offerings. In late 2015, with Seth’s blessing, I filed for a new LLC with Seth as an equal partner and called it none other than SOB LLC. I was able to fully commit to SOB. I did the rest.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Congress passed a law called the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, which required the FAA to develop new rules governing unmanned aircraft by September 2015. The agency has claimed in the past that it will try to finish its regulations by the spring of 2015. FAA Grants Amazon Permission to Test Drone Deliveries.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Venture capital firms have increased their agtech investments by 80 percent since 2012, bringing total VC investment in the sector to a total of $3 billion in 2015, according to a new report from Boston Consulting Group and AgFunder, an online investment marketplace for agriculture technology.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 14, 2016

That means in three months, Bristol has lost a third of its value, equivalent to about $40 billion in market capitalization. Illumina fended off a hostile takeover bid from Roche back in February 2012, and over the next three years shares went from about $51 apiece to as high as $219.30 in July 2015. The reason?

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2017

However, starting in 2015, we found that creating this was really hard. We've had a very small round, and it was pretty full, of between $1M and $2M around March, and we're using that to beef up our marketing and hire one more engineer. I left in 2012, and I was one of the top 5 of the top 10.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Sales of both drugs, ivacaftor (Kalydeco) and the combo pill ivacaftor-lumacaftor (Orkambi), reached almost $1 billion in 2015 and are growing. In August 2014—just six months after moving into its new glass towers —Vertex announced plans to take telaprevir off the market. But the drugs aren’t cures, and competition looms.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

It is an heroic accomplishment in a brutal fund-raising market in which only market leaders can bring in that sort of money. Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x But of course public markets had begun gyrating.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2015

Now finally, in 2015, the budget is estimated at $5.1 These threats have already affected nuclear computers, as shown in 2012 when Iran’s centrifuge machine was damaged by the Stuxnet worm. The expenditures reported by the Pentagon have seen continual increases in budgets to protect against cyber warfare attacks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

The funding environment for tech startups is an ever shifting ground as we go through predictable shifts that go hand-in-hand with the slowing of the overall market. With a massive increase in companies created and a huge number of sources one trend that we witnessed from 2012–2015 was the rise of the undisciplined round.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Batch 15 is a group of scrappy start-ups that explores unusual markets, including postpartum care (Mahmee), underwater robots, airplane maintenance, and even crocheting. Fun Fact: Beeketing is named from Bi (beloved dog of Alice) and Marketing (our interest). Fun Fact: Preventing spreadsheet abuse since 2015 – one company at a time.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

There is a lot of uncertainty about the state of the private, high-growth technology markets and the venture capital markets that underpin them. There is nobody to blame for this abandonment of common sense – it is simply the market being the market and we’re doomed to repeat history. It’s just a market.

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