socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

What we're trying to positions ourselves as, and it might sound touchy-feely, is a friend to app developers and app owners who have mobile applications. After I sold my last company, Shift, in May of 2015, I took some time off to look for the next thing to do. What was appealing to you about the mobile app area?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

Competitor positioning and sustainable competitive advantage. Startup investments are extremely risky, primarily because the stock has no value until a future liquidity event, such as an acquisition or public offering. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/29/2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. A smart investor will take an independent final reading in the market on barriers to entry, active competition, demographics, and price sensitivity. Status of the solution.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 25, 2016

According to Pitchbook , during the first half of 2015, “M&A exits valued at less than $100 million made up the majority of exits or about 65% of the total number of deals, which was up from about 60% in 2014.”. Shortly thereafter, the company received an acquisition offer which would have put over $15 million into the Founder’s pocket.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Additionally, with the cloud becoming the de facto choice for product development and deployment, newer and more challenging security threats continue to emerge. They foster customer trust, which is essential in driving growth and customer acquisition. Treat Cybersecurity as a Business Issue.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Sales of both drugs, ivacaftor (Kalydeco) and the combo pill ivacaftor-lumacaftor (Orkambi), reached almost $1 billion in 2015 and are growing. But the drugs aren’t cures, and competition looms. Has Vertex has learned from its past missteps?

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Twilio has now raised around $235 million, including a July 2015 round totaling $130 million. Thus, he naturally viewed Twilio's toolsets as rudimentary and easy to copy - easy for him and his world-class team of VoIP engineers, but not so easy for the average developer. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial.

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