Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Tons of great conversations about new startups, hardware, and the entrepreneurs building them. To cap off our 6th year at SXSW and follow up on last year’s amazingly successful Trend Lounge , we knew this year had to be bigger, better, more engaging, and of course, even more fun. Hustle hard, ride in comfort.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000. Neither did Y Combinator, 500 Startups, TechStars, Amplify, Mucker and countless others. And importantly they play an important role in helping to introduce you to the right A-round VC based on your startup type. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. As You Start to Mature. In the Early Days. You’ll get empathy. Experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Even bigger is the desire to stick one’s middle finger up at all of the people who doubted you all along. In fact, the headline of one read, “How Putting $10m into uBeam illustrates everything that is wrong with tech investing today.” But “what is wrong with tech investing today?” We checked safety.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Companies being created has continued to go up dramatically making managing dealflow nearly impossible. You’ve had a few difficult years outside of work – I feel confident 2014 is going to be a great one! I know your 2013 success will lead to more sustained travel in 2014. I feel confident in our 2014 plans.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2014

When to start PR? So my simple advice is to start PR as early as possible (and certainly earlier than most of your investors will advise) when you have your head around your product plans and are well into execution (or ready to launch) precisely because your recruiting, seed funding and initial user base may depend on it.

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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. Naturally, the next step in Bernstein’s evolution from blogger to businesswoman was a technology startup. 2020 will be a watershed year for investment in businesses around the creator economy,” Neil Robertson tells TechCrunch.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego startup Sensemetrics is applying that technology to the industrial Internet-of-things sector (IIoT), selling access to its cloud platform to the world’s largest mining companies and government agencies monitoring major infrastructure, such as dams. CEO Matt Meehan says Sensemetrics.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

Microsoft plans to invest more in early stage startup companies through a new corporate venture fund, headed by former Qualcomm executives. The company’s startup accelerator program —henceforth to be known as Microsoft Accelerator—will continue hosting startups. Peggy Johnson. Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

A team of decorated academic chemists in San Diego have been working since 2014 on a biotech startup that aims to find new drugs faster. Vividion Therapeutics is launching with $50 million pledged from investment firms Arch Venture Partners and Versant Ventures.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Steve Case, venture capitalist, author, and co-founder of AOL, is preparing to hit the road this week on his sixth Rise of the Rest tour, where he travels to emerging innovation hubs in search of investment-worthy tech startups and to highlight the growth happening outside of places like Silicon Valley and Boston.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Author, investor, and AOL co-founder Steve Case today announced a new $150 million venture fund aimed at pumping investment capital into tech companies in so-called flyover states. The new fund shares a name with Case’s Rise of the Rest tours, the pilgrimages he has conducted since 2014 to highlight lesser-appreciated innovation hubs and.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Start with a service you know and love. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. billion by 2014. Of course that website isn’t completely up to date but it’s a great resource for seeing the overall picture. But let me start with some data.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2015

Some smart people whom I like & respect started to weigh in publicly. I built it on a platform given to me for free by a company that has invested hundreds of millions of dollars of which I receive value. They allow my to drive traffic to my blog, to websites or anywhere I want as long as the audience will click. YnJM8aeru9.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

The idea was to feature early stage companies in the region that have not attracted much attention or raised a substantial amount of startup capital. I started with a list of companies already screened by the San Diego Venture Group’s annual venture summit, and consulted with investors and startup mentors to refine the list.

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Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

A key scientist involved in integrin research, Harvard University immunologist Tim Springer, is spinning out a biotech startup to develop a new generation of integrin-blocking drugs—pills instead of antibody-based injections—that he says will benefit from “a complete understanding” of these complex molecules.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

MedCrypt, a healthtech cybersecurity startup founded near San Diego, has raised $750,000 in a seed financing round led by Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE: SFE ), a private equity fund in suburban Philadelphia that invests in healthcare, fintech, and digital media. A San Francisco investment firm, Muddy Waters Capital, announced on Sept.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Cashflow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Yet it always amazes me that I can find two different startups, seemingly working on the same problem, with one having a burn rate several times higher than the other. They understand startup realities. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young.

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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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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Intel Capital has invested $38 million in 12 technology startups since July, highlighting its venture investment focus on innovations in self-driving cars and machine vision, the Internet of Things, sports and health, drones, and virtual reality. We’re aligned, but not overlapping, is the way I like to look at it.”.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 22, 2016

In downtown San Diego, a private real estate company best known for its master-planned communities in suburban Southern California has posed some existential questions for regional tech hubs looking to build their own startup ecosystems. Such campuses abound in Silicon Valley, in a sprawling, horizontal way. John “J.T.”

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

According to the National Venture Capital Association and PitchBook , this past quarter $15 billion was invested in 1,810 deals , which compares unfavorably to both the prior quarter ($22.1 billion, 2,559 deals), signaling perhaps a period of digestion given how much had been invested during the 2014-2015 window.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

As one of the young company’s first employees (founded in January 2012 with their first hotspot product launch in 2012) she provides a great inside look at the inspiration that drives the company’s work and shares her own insights on how/why she ended up at one of the wireless data industry’s fastest growing innovators.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

If the data held up in wider testing, it could mean that hepatitis C could be cured someday with a short course of pills, without the flu-like symptoms that dogged regimens of the past. “It With evidence of up to 90 percent cure rates in three months and a very clean safety profile, sofosbuvir quickly made telaprevir obsolete.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

At Xconomy, we have seen growing investments in the sector—both in a rash of new agtech startups and by bigger players such Monsanto, Bayer Crop Sciences, and Syngenta. The annual AgTech Investment Report from AgFunderNews found that investment in agriculture and food-related technology startups alone hit $4.6

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

As with angel investment plans, it’s important to “lead with the need” in the opening paragraphs, stating the problem you are intending to solve. A report projecting a sector will achieve $70 billion in revenue by 2014 will make you look like an amateur. Tags: entrepreneur startup business plan writer audience. compelling.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

And I’ll tell you why, starting with where you started and why you succeeded. Users could set up their phone to tweet from it; send an SMS txt and the tweet would appear on your profile. A new social pipeline, the quick blogging style, the similarity to texting: all these things were great for Twitter.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

Synthorx, the San Diego synthetic biology startup that expanded the number of DNA base pairs with two synthetic nucleotides, said today it has raised $10 million in a Series B financing round led by RA Capital Management, the Boston life sciences hedge fund. But a lot of them don’t advance because [production] can’t be scaled up commercially.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 4, 2016

The San Diego company sees many reasons why wireless charging will eventually become a robust global market, according to Steve Pazol, a Qualcomm vice president who took over the company’s wireless charging business in 2014. Pazol said he expects to sign up more licensees by the end of this year. and other nations.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 5, 2016

—Gene therapy news: After investing in Bamboo Therapeutics and its Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment earlier this year, Pfizer bought the Chapel Hill, NC-based biotech outright on Monday for $150 million up front , with potentially another $495 million later. Along with Bluebird Bio (NASDAQ: BLUE ) and U.K.

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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. How much money will they reserve from their fund for future investments in your startup? What percentage of their fund will you be?

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. He uses his former home, a just-under 900-square-foot beach bungalow two blocks away, to house Facebook employees visiting from up north. Loading… Real Estate. » More.

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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. ” ring hollow. ” How elegantly stated.

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