Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. I became aware of Sam several years ago as I started noticing his name repeated in the comments section of my blog. Jordan Hudson. Kevin Zhang. So what is an EIR and why Sam?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

This is especially true in a booming market (like 2014) where PR firms can charge premiums and be super selective about whom they work with. And you need somebody who is committed to keeping up your presence in blogs, social media and other online forums. It’s OK to push out extra ones on your website or blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2016

And I’m going to cross post this entire post on Facebook as an experiment rather than just posting a link on FB and trying to drive people to my blog. So if you’re reading this on Facebook (or on my blog!) Twitter was my public chat board, my place to share blog content, my place to ask public questions and to debate.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

In a post on Kik’s blog on Friday the MediaLab said that it has “finalized an agreement” to acquire Kik Messenger. “ Kik is one of those amazing places that brings us back to those early aspirations,” the blog post read. Whisper’s last round was a $36 million Series C back in 2014.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

And while John & I have been through these phases ourselves (and have even written several blog posts on the topic like this one and John keeps a great blog with many similar concepts) we simply haven’t been running large sales teams for the past 8+ years.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 15, 2018

Will “CBUS” and “SI” join “THOR” and “RMED”? It’s next week or never (until 2019, that is) for two San Diego companies that have filed documents with securities regulators indicating plans to go public.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

Founded in 2014, Glossier is widely touted as one of the earliest breakout successes of the DTC model, and raised its Series E last July at a $1.8 The company built its own point-of-sale system and commerce APIs in-house, allowing them to deliver a “seamless” customer experience, former Glossier CTO Bryan Mahoney said in 2018.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

So assume that in 2012 the company would do $20 million in sales and $2 million in profits (10%) and 2013 they would do sales of $25 million and $4 million in profit (16% net margin) and then slow growth in 2014 to $30 million and $6 million in profit (20% profit). Even tech blogs know this. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 8, 2019

However, that wasn’t the problem San Diego startup LabFellows was looking to solve when it launched in 2014. Scientists, no matter how sexy the research they’re conducting, aren’t immune from the administrative minutiae of office life. Such tasks steal time away from researchers’ main objectives.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2019

That opening to biotech startups in 2014 was controversial at the time. Five years ago, the big tech incubator Y Combinator started to welcome life sciences companies into its sizable startup classes, which had previously nurtured entrepreneurs in information technology almost exclusively.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Among the notable exits was San Diego’s Lumena Pharmaceuticals, which Irish pharmaceutical giant Shire (NASDAQ: SHPG ) bought for more than $260 million in 2014. Nearly half of the businesses in its portfolio have either been acquired or gone public, according to RiverVest. At the time, Lumena’s chairman was RiverVest.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

” Juxtapose this: Larry Page telling us we need more ambitious projects and one person with a blog writing a very negative take-down piece on a company that is truly innovative and trying to change an industry and free us from having to crouch in airport corners to get 18% more juice on our phones before catching out flights.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In a blogpost touting student successes, Udacity co-founder Sebastian Thrun (pictured above in 2014) said Nanodegree graduates are reporting average salary increases of 33 percent in the United States and Canada when they score new jobs after updating. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Other popular tools are available at low cost, with built-in e-commerce capabilities (pay via credit card), including this Top Ten list for 2014. The menu should include a link to your blog, separately set up on Blogger, Wordpress, or TypePad – all free. Or, fall back to the old standby DreamWeaver by Adobe. Life is more fun that way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

For example, mobile now has become the formidable new communication channel, posting a year-over-year growth rate of 47 percent in 2014, according to WBR Digital Research. I still see too many websites that look like they have had no updates or blogs in months or even years. Blogs must provide value to customers.

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Xconomy

JULY 24, 2019

It’s a boon for the South San Francisco startup founded in 2014, but not an unusual haul for competitors in the same field, where the tantalizing promise of a simple test to find cancer sooner, when it is much easier to treat, has emerged from advances in DNA sequencing, sophisticated data crunching, and the understanding of cancer biology.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

(EDC), which conducted the study, to analyze how cybersecurity has changed since 2014, when the first cybersecurity industry analysis led to the creation of the Cyber Center of Excellence. That was up 19 percent from the 2014 study, which had 102 cybersecurity firms with 3,550 workers. billion in 2014. That represents a 9.5

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Xconomy

MARCH 22, 2019

The company, which started operations in 2014, has raised nearly $148 million since inception. Turning Point Therapeutics, which is developing targeted cancer drugs for patients whose tumors resist other precision therapies, has outlined plans for an IPO.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Founded in 2014 by CEO Adam Markowitz, Portfolium sells academic institutions access to what it calls its ePortfolio network, which, along with hosting student portfolios, also offers student assessments and job matching services. Instructure (NYSE: INST ) has agreed to acquire privately held Portfolium.

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Xconomy

MAY 20, 2019

Grey, who was president and CEO of Lumuna from 2011 through its 2014 acquisition by Irish drugmaker Shire (now part of Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 22, 2018

He had joined the Parsippany, NJ, drug maker when it bought Rempex Pharmaceuticals in 2014. Qpex is led by Michael Dudley, the former chief scientific officer of The Medicines Company. That company was developing. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

I recently read a blog post by Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director of Sapphire Ventures about why entrepreneurs should care about from whom their VC funds raise their capital. We capped our fund size so that we would stay true to our investment strategy in terms of size, scope and number of partners as we stood in 2014 when we raised the fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2015

They allow my to drive traffic to my blog, to websites or anywhere I want as long as the audience will click. But it is just the top end of my user funnel and I need to convince audiences who visit my blog to sign up for my newsletter to have a “direct” relationship with them. Mark Suster (@msuster) November 7, 2014.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Pew Internet Project’s research on Social Networking reports that as of January 2014, 74% of online adults use social networking sites. Digital Insights reports in their 2014 Social Media statistics that Facebook has 1.01 billion active mobile users monthly as of March 31, 2014, while Twitter has 255 million active users.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Back in 2014, I wrote a column intended to help consumers walk away from their. With the growing interest in cord-cutting, you’d think it would be getting easier to find alternative sources for broadband Internet service. But no, it’s actually a bit more complicated than it used to be, because there are more options to choose from.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. And some angels running around like Reid Hoffman & Keith Rabois. But not many others.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 1, 2015

I was a bit shocked to learn that ValueClick implemented this seemingly radical policy during 2014. He surprised me during a recent Local Market Launch Board meeting by suggesting that the company stop accruing vacation and allow employees to take as much time off as they need.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Kristina Tsvetanova says she found the motivation for her startup Blitab in 2014, when a blind colleague’s struggle to communicate via the Internet made her conscious of the barriers facing visually impaired people in a digital world.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2017

Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN ), a San Diego-based company that was a pioneer in gene sequencing technology, founded the accelerator in 2014, along with Russian billionaire Yuri Milner.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

It partnered with Nike in Portland, OR , on apparel-related technology in 2012 and with Barclays on fintech in 2014. In 2011, Techstars began launching accelerators that focused on startups innovating in a specific sector in partnership with big companies.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2017

The algorithm to manipulate music tempo based on steps didn’t come in until mid-2014, because it was really challenging to develop that software,” he said. The following year, the startup created an algorithm that automatically adjusts the rhythm and tempo of songs to match the user’s pace and heart rate. We’re manipulating.

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Xconomy

MARCH 14, 2017

founded in 2014 by the gene pioneer J. Human Longevity Inc., Craig Venter to create a database for interpreting the human genome (and to make healthcare more proactive instead of reactive) said it has signed a partnership deal with MassMutual.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 6/20/2014. Be a visible and available expert in your domain. You are the ultimate critical success factor for your business.

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Xconomy

MARCH 15, 2017

Spun out of Harvard University in 2014—one of the firm’s cofounders is Harvard’s George Church, a leading geneticist—eGenesis wants to increase the supply of organs for desperate patients.

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Xconomy

APRIL 26, 2019

Mike Krenn, who became president of SDVG in August of 2014, will become CEO of the merged organization, which will assume the name Connect. The previous Connect’s president and CEO of five years, Greg McKee, stepped down earlier this year to launch Torrent Ventures, a venture fund.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Inspired by the vast amounts of data from videos, photos, music, websites and blogs shared by the many friends and people they follow online and seeing how much time it takes to check all the content across many platforms, friends set out to come up with a solution and CHNL was born. Jason was an early employee at Topspin. What Inspired You?

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

René Pinnell says he and his wife Selena Pinnell were “blown away” by the virtual reality projects their friends were creating in 2014, so they looked for an entrepreneurial niche that would allow them to support such artists. That year the couple, both trained in design, founded a startup in San Francisco, then called KaleidoscopeVR.

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