Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about The Silent Benefits of PR in which I pointed out that most young companies I encounter don’t fully grasp the benefits of PR because they are less measurable than product milestones or customer acquisition analyses (like CAC/LTV). It’s OK to push out extra ones on your website or blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. Profitability.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

But billions of dollars in acquisitions will be left by the side of the road. Merck also saw some expected fruits of its 2014 big-ticket acquisition of Cubist Pharmaceuticals wither away this week, as the Supreme Court wouldn’t reverse a decision that shaved years off the patent life of the top-selling antibiotic daptomyicin (Cubicin).

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Xconomy

JULY 7, 2016

Pernix Therapeutics is slashing its headcount by more than 20 percent as the specialty pharmaceutical company tries to move toward profitability after a streak of acquisitions. In 2014, Pernix, then based in The Woodlands, TX, acquired San Diego-based Somaxon Pharmaceuticals. Those acquisitions helped Pernix reach $175.8

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

By then, it was obvious that the original thesis behind the acquisition by Scripps was just not there. We have enough money to last until February of 2014, but here are the options. We basically closed our $70M round of funding in February of 2014, which is what we actually announced yesterday. That was a pivotal moment.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

By then, it was obvious that the original thesis behind the acquisition by Scripps was just not there. We have enough money to last until February of 2014, but here are the options. We basically closed our $70M round of funding in February of 2014, which is what we actually announced yesterday. That was a pivotal moment.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

And just announced an acquisition of Meetup. Station F is led by Roxanne Varza , who’s been very actively supporting startups and the French startup ecosystem as former head of Microsoft Accelerator in France, cofounder of European blog Tech.eu. Based in Berlin’s Mitte neighborhood, Factory Berlin was inaugurated in 2014.

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Xconomy

JULY 27, 2016

In 2014, Sequenom sold a genetic analysis tool and a bioscience facility to San Diego-based Agena Bioscience for $31.8 The board of directors of Sequenom has approved the acquisition, but the deal still needs approval of Sequenom shareholders. In 2013, when Sequenom reported a $107.4 It is expected to close by the end of the year.

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Xconomy

JULY 18, 2016

Originally developed by Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, the drug aimed to cut patients’ gastric emptying time—how long it takes for the stomach to flush out food—and showed positive results during a Phase 2 trial in May 2014. Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

In August 2014—just six months after moving into its new glass towers —Vertex announced plans to take telaprevir off the market. With evidence of up to 90 percent cure rates in three months and a very clean safety profile, sofosbuvir quickly made telaprevir obsolete. Other similarly effective HCV drugs have followed.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

After in-licensing and developing multiple other compounds and taking the company public through a reverse merger, Shkreli was ousted from Retrophin in late 2014—shortly after he raised the price on an old drug used for treating a condition related to kidney stones, which the company acquired, from $1.50 to $30 apiece.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

A new social pipeline, the quick blogging style, the similarity to texting: all these things were great for Twitter. The idea of a “retweet” as an endorsement and as a way to “share” someone else’s content within your feed and with your followers, was relatively new (outside of blogging). montanatriplett nice, which Pinot Grigio.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

AstraZeneca’s olaparib (Lynparza) became the first approved PARP drug in 2014, and several others are being developed, including talazoparib from San Francisco’s Medivation (NASDAQ: MDVN ). Analysts wondered if the Tesaro news would push Medivation’s acquisition price higher. It is the target of a hostile bid from Sanofi.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

While that was down from the 449 local startups created in 2014, it is the third consecutive year that more than 400 startups were formed here—a pace that is well beyond the 301 startups per year average over the previous eight years.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The Partnership on AI , formally unveiled Wednesday, includes Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, Google and its 2014 acquisition DeepMind. Each company is investing untold billions of dollars in developing AI technologies, betting on a future defined by computer systems that can perceive, reason, advise, and decide.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. 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. Loading… Real Estate. » More. Real Estate. » More. Loading… Careers. Commercial.

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