socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2018

San Francisco-based Cloudflare , which provides a service which helps web site and web application developers manage caching and access to their websites, protecting against cyberattacks, distributed denial of service (DDoS)--and which is backed by Qualcomm--is heading towards an IPO.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2015

As founder of Digital LA, I run one to two tech events every week bringing together tech, startups, investors, Hollywood, developers designers, and more. We are looking forward to this year''s Silicon Beach Fest 2015 continuing these themes and being bigger, adding more international, biotech, and more. Watch for more in 2015.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Prices for agricultural commodities such as corn, soy, and wheat are at their lowest levels in years, but investment in agricultural technology has never been better. Though some of these products are still in development, farmers have come around to using new technology in an effort to become more efficient and more productive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Seed-stage, meanwhil e, is technically that critical period when you need funding to do solution- and business-model development, to prove that your new product or service works, before you try to sell it to customers. Yet, they often provide similar small seed investments, similar to those of accelerators.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

You shouldn’t invest in an undefined business. Most have developed their own financial “rules of thumb” that will help them decide if your startup is fundable, in conjunction with their assessments of your team and your basic business concept. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/28/2015.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 25, 2016

Unfortunately, the coming market correction will reverberate to all stages of venture investing. Investors that insist on investing more than their pro rata allocation in follow-on rounds have an incentive to compress the company’s valuation to maximize the percentage ownership acquired by their investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

Immediate investment requirements and use of funds. Investors are also interested in future investment requirements, time frames and long-term strategy. Investors are also interested in future investment requirements, time frames and long-term strategy. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/29/2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

If there are conflicts within the team, or differing views of the strategy, or evidence of missing processes and tools, the investment process will likely be terminated. Make yourself available to answer any questions, show your enthusiasm, and explain both the positives and negatives of the external investment process.

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Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur 108

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Twilio has now raised around $235 million, including a July 2015 round totaling $130 million. In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial. Unicornless. billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

As the founding head of Campus London , Google’s first physical hub for startups and now home to over 80,000 registered members, I thought it would be interesting to share the latest developments in this space from my perspective. And just announced an acquisition of Meetup. What’s a Startup Mega Campus? Factory Lisbon.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

This is the right time for a new leader to take the reins and lead Biogen through its next stage of development, and I look forward to returning to the West coast to take on one more set of activities and spend more time with my family.”. It’ll be interesting to see which direction Biogen heads from here strategically.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Limited financial resources make it challenging for these companies to invest in sophisticated security mechanisms or full-fledged IT departments – a fact that hackers and cyber attackers use to their full advantage. They foster customer trust, which is essential in driving growth and customer acquisition.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

Celgene paid Acetylon $100 million in 2013 for an option to buy the company outright, but the deal recently expired without an acquisition, leaving Acetylon to chart a new course. The news was a relief for Redwood City, CA-based Heron, which has been waiting for word on the status of its drug since September 2015. In the U.S.,

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

If you want money, rather than just feedback, you need to actually design, develop, and prove that you have something worth people’s hard-earned funds before you launch your campaign. You need a polished, tested concept, not just an idea. Crowdfunding to gauge demand is not recommended, since failed campaigns don’t usually recover later.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2020

If you want money, rather than just feedback, you need to actually design, develop, and prove that you have something worth people’s hard-earned funds before you launch your campaign. You need a polished, tested concept, not just an idea. Crowdfunding to gauge demand is not recommended, since failed campaigns don’t usually recover later.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In reality, crowdfunding has become a major startup funding vehicle, with an estimated contribution of $30 billion in 2015, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. If you want money, rather than just feedback, you need to actually design, develop, and prove that you have something worth people’s hard-earned funds before you launch your campaign.

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