Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

The center commissioned the report to help quantify the economic impact of the cybersecurity industry in San Diego, and to assess how employers view their prospects for growth and needs for future hiring. That was up 19 percent from the 2014 study, which had 102 cybersecurity firms with 3,550 workers. billion in 2014.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

billion by 2014. But my specific point is that while everybody is busy telling you that “kids don’t use email” or “email is dead” I have actual data from portfolio company CEO’s showing the efficacy of email as a communication and marketing channel. There are 2.9 billion email accounts.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

By now you have many smart people around your board but probably people who don’t totally understand the nuances of your employees, customers, sales reps, marketing messages, technology challenges, competitors and strategic choices. how to market our products and company. So our board meetings consisted of discussion about.

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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. Since then, TakeLessons has raised a total of $20 million in venture capital, and expanded into new markets and services. The company’s last VC round in early 2014 raised $7 million.

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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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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

I began asking around who the likely investors were for such a market. 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. But not many others.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

And it’s the latest in a series of investments we’ve made in building out our practice as the LA technology market continues to grow robustly and attract entrepreneurs and investors. I became aware of Sam several years ago as I started noticing his name repeated in the comments section of my blog. Jordan Hudson.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 1, 2015

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. I was a bit shocked to learn that ValueClick implemented this seemingly radical policy during 2014. Will Virgin Go All The Way?

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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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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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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. Add new revenue streams, and more aggressive marketing.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

The Executive Summary for a bank lending plan should be a literal summary of the entire business plan, with a paragraph roughly devoted to the product/service, market, industry, marketing, and management. Applying a narrative approach to the problem you’re solving can also be helpful. However, there are no Widgets available.

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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

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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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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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. While running my family wine business , I used Twitter’s search for market research and to find new customers. Later, as I achieved a sort of cult fame status with my first YouTube show, WineLibraryTV , Twitter helped me grow my personal brand.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

Recently, we had a great opportunity to sit down and chat with Amanda Bensol, head BD/Marketing for Karma. That’s what drew me to them as I hopped on board for PR/marketing, and a little bit of sales and operations.” A lot of people like that and it’s helped us spread awareness through word of month.

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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. They actually killed people.”.

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Xconomy

JULY 10, 2016

Bock, who died last Wednesday at 56, was a life sciences entrepreneur and investor who helped start or finance dozens of companies that have a combined market value estimated today at roughly $70 billion. When Xconomy came to San Diego in 2008, he also readily volunteered to help our editorial mission as an Xconomist. ).

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2016

apiece, in post-market trading on Monday. in November 2014. Today’s news won’t help its case, however. Regulus said it would report the trial results at future scientific meetings, but investors don’t seem interested in waiting patiently. Shares plummeted almost 60 percent, to $2.15

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Xconomy

AUGUST 22, 2016

Inspired chiefly by the tech industry’s move into downtown San Francisco and the rejuvenation of the “SoMa” neighborhood South of Market Street, Turner said the Irvine Company has been asking, “can we create the same sense of community in our office complexes?”. The tech community has helped us evolve as a company here,” Turner said.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 26, 2016

They need help getting out of bed and getting dressed in the morning. According to a 2015 report from EvaluatePharma , the market for drugs for rare, or “orphan” diseases, as they’re known, has been growing by 12 percent every year and is expected to reach $178 billion worldwide by 2020. Neither has ever walked.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

I am grateful to Mike Krenn, the venture group’s president, for his help on this project. Four of the companies here were founded in 2014, another three were started in 2015, and two—CureMatch and Lymber—debuted earlier this year. I widened my net this year. With the benefit of all their insights, I winnowed the list to 12.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

billion last year , roughly double the 2014 total. This channel of our website, with its own home page, will feature all articles about these subjects and related topics from across our 11-market network. and Cybersecurity. This sub-field has big implications for farmers, business, and agtech as a whole.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 4, 2016

As the global market for mobile phones has matured, Qualcomm has been seeking new opportunities in the wireless technology business. The industry’s push for self-driving cars also has helped to accelerate the development of wireless charging systems, Pazol said. “An An autonomous EV cannot plug itself in,” Pazol said.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

. —In other news from the moonshot day, Biden warned researchers in academia and industry that they would risk losing federal funding if they didn’t follow the law and report their clinical trial results to the public ClinicalTrials.gov database… IBM said it would deploy its Watson systems to help the U.S.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

Fifty-six percent of retailers surveyed in a 2015 Shop.org/Forrester Research repor t say apps aren’t a key component of their mobile marketing strategy, even as 58 percent placed mobile at the top of their priority lists. Sixty eight percent spent less than $1 million on mobile developments in 2014. 98 percent for mobile sites.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The first news of nivolumab’s Phase 3 failure in these first-line patients came in August and eliminated billions of dollars from Bristol’s market value. The first PARP blocker to win approval was AstraZeneca’s olaparib (Lynparza), for certain forms of ovarian cancer, in 2014. Conversely, Merck got a boost.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 22, 2015

The market for connectivity solutions in vehicles is growing. Vehicle manufacturers and mobile network operators have been signing deals for several years, and these partnerships are expecting to introduce vehicles with embedded connectivity to market in 2015. But who’s the leader in the automotive market?

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Xconomy

AUGUST 5, 2016

The company and Carlsbad, CA, partner Ionis Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: IONS ) stopped a Phase 3 trial of spinal muscular atrophy drug nusinersen early because it was clearly helping improve the motor function of patients compared to a placebo. His Chatham Therapeutics was acquired by Baxter International in 2014.

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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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