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

OCTOBER 26, 2014

You help them on stories, act as a source, develop real relationships, read their stories and eventually when you have news they’re more willing to have a conversation. 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. It’s a continual process.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

PMV raised a $30 million Series A in 2014. The new cash will help PMV push into human clinical studies, though in its statement the startup didn’t say when those studies might begin. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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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. The company became a Wall Street darling when it raised $1 billion-plus through its 2014 IPO, and now claims to have deployed roughly $19 billion in loans since inception.

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Xconomy

JULY 30, 2018

Pernix (NASDAQ: PTX ) said Monday that a business entity it helped create, Nalpropion Pharmaceuticals, has closed a deal for Contrave. The FDA approved Contrave in 2014 , which at the time made it the third. Orexigen Therapeutics went bankrupt trying to turn its weight loss pill, Contrave, into a commercial success. for the drug.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

The new Microsoft Ventures will seek investments that fall outside the commercial deals that the company has done more frequently in the past, writes Nagraj Kashyap, corporate vice president of Microsoft Ventures, in a blog post announcing the new effort. That forms one end of the company’s spectrum of startup activities.

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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

APRIL 17, 2017

San Diego-based TakeLessons set out nine years ago to create a Web-based platform that helped match music students with qualified instructors. The company’s last VC round in early 2014 raised $7 million. Since then, TakeLessons has raised a total of $20 million in venture capital, and expanded into new markets and services.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 24, 2016

After being what I assume is the subject of one or more of Seth David’s emotionally charged blog posts, I’ve decided it’s time to respond. This blog post is for information purposes only and my only intention is to move forward. I saw an opportunity here to help him and knew that I could bring significant value.

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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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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

First it was street-style photography, then came the launch of her popular fashion blog WeWoreWhat. A company like Moe will help legitimize the industry,” Bernstein tells TechCrunch. “I Ben Jeffries launched his startup, Influencer , in London in 2014 after his close friend matched with Caspar Lee, a Yo uTuber with 7.3

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 1, 2015

I was a bit shocked to learn that ValueClick implemented this seemingly radical policy during 2014. If there is a risk you won’t meet your goals, shout and we’ll find the resources to help you.”. Yet Jim’s wise and reasoned support of the policy opened my mind to its advantages. Will Virgin Go All The Way?

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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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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. Help us review a few deals. Jordan Hudson. Kevin Zhang.

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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

JANUARY 6, 2014

It’s your job to help them get oriented with the right amount of information so that when you come together you can focus on making good decisions or at least helping you discuss difficult topics rather than spending all of your time informing them. We realized we needed help.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Per a new study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014, reaching 2.5 As an entrepreneur, what steps can you take to help your business not only survive the data hurricane, but to thrive under these new and challenging conditions? exabytes per month at the end of the year.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

billion by 2014. In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. I suppose I could have skipped the whole rest of the blog post and just posted that. Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). There are 2.9 billion email accounts.

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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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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

A 2014 article published by The Wall Street Journal describes the technology, officially known as a Quantum Photonic Imager (QPI), as miniature projectors, roughly the size of Tic Tacs, designed to emit crisp videos and 3-D images for smartphones and giant screens. In August, 2014, the Defense Department said it had awarded a $58.3

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Xconomy

JULY 7, 2016

The remaining neurology and pain sales staff will operate under the same management, a streamlining move that the company hopes will help the company better target the key physicians who prescribe the company’s products. In 2014, Pernix, then based in The Woodlands, TX, acquired San Diego-based Somaxon Pharmaceuticals.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Buddytruck even has the issue of unloading solved as the drivers are contracted to help customers both load and unload their hauls. AJ: Buddytruk has been active and accepting pickups in Los Angeles since August 1, 2014. AJ: When you get connected with a Buddytruk driver, you get the help of that driver and their truck.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

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). —When Merck (NYSE: MRK ) bought Cubist Pharmaceuticals for $9.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2013

According to earlier studies from Forbes Insights , many entrepreneurs not only feel the lessons learned during the past few years have helped them survive, but the recession also exposed flaws in their business strategies that were previously not apparent, and they could fix. fiscal cliff. points in February, to 90.8.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

For more than two decades, Breg has built and sold braces, splints, walking boots, and other devices designed to help rehabilitate injured patients. The Carlsbad, CA-based company has also developed software that it says can help healthcare providers and other organizations keep track of orthotic devices and bill patients for their use.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Vertex began as a bootstrapped startup in 1989 and was on its way to being a profitable enterprise that helped thousands of patients with a devastating disease. In August 2014—just six months after moving into its new glass towers —Vertex announced plans to take telaprevir off the market. Yet it wasn’t a fatal blow.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After a successful run through NYC-based Kaplan Edtech accelerator program (powered by Techstars), the team at MentorMob have been gearing up for a 2014 re-launch; same MentorMob name, but as Vince tells us, with a more community-based focus (don’t worry, a little more on that later). Vince the Techie. Tale of Two Founders.

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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. These products help him win his core sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

In 2012 I penned an article called “ It’s Morning in VC ” that highlighted many of these trends and in 2014 I published a series of data in this VC SlideShare presentation of “ Why VC is Much More Compelling ” now, which updated many of our earlier analysis. Final venture outlook 2016 from Mark Suster.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Applying a narrative approach to the problem you’re solving can also be helpful. More stringent analyses of your competitors (through a Porter’s Five Forces model or SWOT analysis) are also helpful. A report projecting a sector will achieve $70 billion in revenue by 2014 will make you look like an amateur.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Check out a sample demo of their Google Glass product, due to arrive in 2014 (well, it was due to arrive then). As one astute commenter on one of the many up-roaring blogs stated (paraphrased): “AOL’s just mad that People+ beat them to the punch” Maybe there’s something more that we don’t know.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

As I sit here writing this, I can’t help but think how excited I am about our future. Later, as I achieved a sort of cult fame status with my first YouTube show, WineLibraryTV , Twitter helped me grow my personal brand. A new social pipeline, the quick blogging style, the similarity to texting: all these things were great for Twitter.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

To do so, it aims to use protein drugs that target regulatory T cells, or Tregs—a type of immune cell that helps regulate the body’s immune response. Delinia, by comparison, says it aims to beat back the inflammatory response in autoimmune diseases without broadly suppressing the body’s defenses.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 26, 2016

They need help getting out of bed and getting dressed in the morning. The small populations of patients with those diseases, combined with a lack of alternative treatments, means the drugs typically command very high prices—on average, an estimated $111,820 per patient, per year between 2010 and 2014, according to the report.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

The bank, LifeSci Advisors, is looking to pay penance by helping fund the training program. In a 2014 survey of biotech gender diversity, U.K. LifeSci Advisors cofounder and CEO Andrew McDonald told Xconomy in May that his firm would help place 15 women on boards by the end of 2017. Morgan conference in January. and Europe.

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Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

Inside our bodies, our cells move around, communicate, form new tissue, and heal wounds with the help of proteins called integrins. But when disease occurs, integrins get the wrong cues and do damage—they might help tumors grow, or promote inflammation or scarring inside the body.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2016

in November 2014. Today’s news won’t help its case, however. Regulus was formed in September 2007 as a joint venture between Cambridge, MA-based Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ALNY ) and Carlsbad, CA-based Ionis Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: IONS ). The company went public in 2012 at $4 per share, but closed as high as $22.08

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