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. No financial terms of the deal, which was announced Tuesday, were disclosed.

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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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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2014

How much will social media fame cost you in 2014? As a bonus, you''ll also enjoy a robust number of Pinterest, Tumbler and Instagram followers and you''ll still have room in your budget for 250 comments on your blog and about 100,000 views on Vimeo. Thus, in 2014, accrue your social media status the old-fashioned way - earn it.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2017

With the growing interest in cord-cutting, you’d think it would be getting easier to find alternative sources for broadband Internet service. Back in 2014, I wrote a column intended to help consumers walk away from their. 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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Xconomy

MARCH 14, 2017

founded in 2014 by the gene pioneer J. Beginning today, San Diego-based Human Longevity plans to offer its whole genome sequencing service to customers, employees, and affiliated financial professionals of the Springfield, MA-based insurer formally known as the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. Human Longevity Inc.,

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Xconomy

JANUARY 19, 2018

DeSalvo, who is trained as a physician, served as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology from 2014 to 2016 under President Barack Obama. Secretary for Health , a position within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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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. That means your marketing must now include shopping apps, location-based services and mobile wallets. Blogs must provide value to customers.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Jeff Debrosse, the San Diego cybersecurity expert who founded Nxt Robotics in 2014, will continue as CTO, according to a statement from the company. Under Andersen, the startup has expanded its strategy beyond developing service. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business If you have a unique product or service, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling your consulting service or a few products (as an alternative to eBay): Go online to reserve a website domain name.

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Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2017

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. San Diego-based TakeLessons set out nine years ago to create a Web-based platform that helped match music students with qualified instructors.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

The name of the fund—which will back startups focused on cloud computing, machine learning, and security, with an emphasis on technology that complements Microsoft’s own products and services—is Microsoft Ventures. That forms one end of the company’s spectrum of startup activities.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

billion by 2014. The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. People don’t want to speak to customer service reps. There are 2.9 billion email accounts.

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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 Digital commerce: infinite options for buying goods and services online. More and more company and personal services are being virtualized to the Cloud. exabytes per month at the end of the year.

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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.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In 2014, for the first time ever, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which administers the federal Medicare insurance program, published data showing how much Medicare reimbursement individual providers received. billion) in 2014. How does this end?”. Medicare spent about $2.63 billion) and ranibizumab ($1.33

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2015

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant banner ads on Facebook, buying search engine results, and sponsoring blog entries, but these don’t suffice anymore. In 2014 Tumblr overtook Instagram as fastest-growing social platform, and Snapchat is the fastest-growing mobile app, driven largely by Millennials and teens.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Be a miser with contract services and facilities. Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Buddytruk is the latest peer-to-peer vehicle service to hit the streets of LA. Like Lyft and Uber , the service is utilized through the use of a smartphone app to request a driver to aid you in your quests. Unlike the two ride-sharing services, Buddytruk isn’t a ride-sharing service. AJ: Absolutely!

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Gripe worked well as a social service, but it just didn't work as a business. 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. There's no other way to do that.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Gripe worked well as a social service, but it just didn't work as a business. 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. There's no other way to do that.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Traditional coworking spaces offer startups the ability to rent a desk, or space to measure (sqft/sqmt) and co-hab with other startups and in some cases also with investors, freelancers and service providers (some communities restrict membership to startups only). Based in Berlin’s Mitte neighborhood, Factory Berlin was inaugurated in 2014.

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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. And just like any other business, you need capital to grow faster, services to make you more money, tools to manage it all.”. Danielle Bernstein is just 27 years old, but she’s been running her own business for 10 years.

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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). CrunchBase, a self stated free service, (with a publicly filed creative commons license which iterates the “free” usage of their data) is open source, but only on a conditional basis. .

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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).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Even if you know your product/service suite down cold, understand the strengths/weaknesses of the competition, and have built pro forma financials that are sane. A report projecting a sector will achieve $70 billion in revenue by 2014 will make you look like an amateur. you still have to write the plan for a particular audience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2013

Another approach is to diversify and broaden the product lines and services. economy is transitioning to a self-sustaining economic expansion in 2013-2014 that will not be derailed by the sequester, Europe’s sovereign debt problems, or the still looming U.S. Grab market share from competitors. fiscal cliff.

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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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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Breg’s Vision Cloud Connect software is designed to help users get patient data into and out of electronic health records systems, which as of 2014 were being used at more than 75 percent of hospitals in the U.S. We are delighted to include their services as part of our orthopedic practice management solutions we provide to our customers.”.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

” Last year, I was introduced to Karma’s company and services from a friend. With more than capable service and coverage, Clearwire was able to get their product pushed out quickly with 4G capabilities. . With service and hardware out of the way, the team could step on the gas to get more sales and raise awareness.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

. —Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ) paid over $400 million in August to acquire Nervana Systems , the two-year-old San Diego startup offering its machine learning technology as a cloud-based service. Webroot withheld terms of the deal.). million in a Series D round of investment capital, according to founder and chairman Tony Farwell.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 22, 2016

The developer also provides rent-free space for a second EvoNexus incubator in University City (about a mile or so from UC San Diego) and a third EvoNexus incubator near UC Irvine that opened at the end of 2014. 101 West Broadway tower in downtown San Diego. In April, a study released by the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The startup plans to use the capital infusion to refine its prototype security software as a service, and to conduct a pilot project to show that its technology works with medical devices, Kijewski said. MedCrypt is focused on preventing the sort of thing that happened to St. Mike Kijewski.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

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. The top-five industries it serves are special trades, general contractors, medical, business services, and trucking. Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

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. The top-five industries it serves are special trades, general contractors, medical, business services, and trucking. Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 22, 2015

As you must have guessed, QNX is currently rocking with a 53% share in 2013, and over 60% in 2014. Volodymyr Semenyshyn is a Solution Service Product Manager at SoftServe Inc., and a contributor to the SoftServe United blog. But who’s the leader in the automotive market? Time will tell. Are you ready for it?

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