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Benchling Scores $14.5M to Grow Online Lab Notebook for Bio-Researchers

Xconomy

New immunotherapy approaches to cancer treatment, and the CRISPR technology for editing genetic material in cells, are among the most sophisticated research strategies scientists are using in their quest to defeat disease. Existing data management systems weren’t tailored for work.

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Henry Blodget Loves to Blog: The remaking of a disgraced Wall Street analyst

From the Venture Trenches

This was in direct response to the implosion of the tech bubble and the fall out of Enron, Worldcom and the questionable research produced by the investment banks in general and Blodget in particular. In 2003 Blodget struck a civil settlement deal with the SEC that cost him $4 million. Blodget also agreed never to work on the Street again.

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Henry Blodget Loves to Blog: The remaking of a disgraced Wall Street analyst

From the Venture Trenches

This was in direct response to the implosion of the tech bubble and the fall out of Enron, Worldcom and the questionable research produced by the investment banks in general and Blodget in particular. In 2003 Blodget struck a civil settlement deal with the SEC that cost him $4 million. Blodget also agreed never to work on the Street again.

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ChromaCode Using $12M to Make Old-School PCR Tests More Powerful

Xconomy

The advent of high-throughput DNA sequencing has greatly accelerated biomedical research and discovery, and brought the cost of sequencing a whole human genome to roughly $1,000. Carlsbad, CA-based ChromaCode was founded in late 2012 with the idea of boosting old-school molecular diagnostics instruments used in clinical diagnoses.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. There are 2.9

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

August 24, 2012 10:24 AM. MYTH 2: Silicon Valley companies will always have the best shot at funding. Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs was named one of Fortune’s 10 Brilliant Technology Visionaries for 2012 alongside the great and powerful Oz’s of Apple and Google. MYTH 4: Research institutions are stronger in NorCal.

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Todd Hylton Adds Neural Tech Expertise to UCSD Robotics Institute

Xconomy

Hylton was previously the executive vice president of strategy and research at Brain Corp., in 2012, Hylton led a team that developed BrainOS, software technology designed to enable robotic systems to adapt to their environments and learn from humans. After joining Brain Corp. Henrik’s expertise is more in academics,” Hylton said.

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