Xconomy

JULY 26, 2019

There were a host of reasons—she wasn’t a software engineer, she had no product development experience, and she wanted to launch a consumer item that was already sold widely by established enterprises. From the moment Talia Frenkel resolved to found a company after a kitchen-table talk with her parents, the odds were against her.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2015

Mark Suster (@msuster) March 14, 2015. Some smart people whom I like & respect started to weigh in publicly. Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) March 14, 2015. Josh Elman (@joshelman) March 14, 2015. Josh Elman (@joshelman) March 14, 2015. They already have home court advantage. IMO what Twitter did is defensible.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Selz, run by a team of around 50 in Sydney, Australia, bills itself as a one-stop-shop for small businesses to start selling products and services online. Martin Rushe, the CEO and founder of Selz wrote a blog post announcing the deal. ” However, the platform shuttered in 2015, just five years after its launch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

In my view, starting a new business has never been easier, and according to reports from the Kaufmann Foundation , the numbers are finally here to show it. The number of startups rose in 2015 for the first time in five years, with the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. The cost of social media done well is low.

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Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2019

Biosensor startup Biolinq said Thursday it has raised $4.75 Founders Jared Tagney and Joshua Windmiller, who met while in grad school at UC San Diego, started the company in 2012 as Electrozyme. Founders Jared Tagney and Joshua Windmiller, who met while in grad school at UC San Diego, started the company in 2012 as Electrozyme.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

But for startups with limited resources and experience, I always recommend a soft launch or toe-in-the-water approach in a local market -- and scale up later. In fact, for startups, it usually makes sense to announce your solution on social media and blogs even before you have built the first one.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

One of the questions we discussed is, “How much capital should a startup raise?” In his words, [in some instances] “because lots of capital is available, the company takes on the capital and that ends up resulting in no constraints on decision making and so the company decides to do five things in stead of just one.”

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Tech.Co

MARCH 5, 2020

In June 2019, banking start-up Monzo announced its plans to launch in the US. Started in 2015, and now with a 800+ team spread across the UK (London and Cardiff), and in the US (Las Vegas), Monzo offers app-based banking to its community of 3.6 Money that’s held in Monzo accounts is insured by the FDIC up to $250,000.

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Xconomy

MARCH 15, 2019

A global pharmaceutical company based in France has licensed software developed by San Diego digital health startup CureMatch that aims to help cancer doctors customize the combination of drugs they prescribe to patients based on mutations in cancer DNA. The company, which CEO Bob Manning says has raised about $2.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Here are some of the key new rules I have learned by starting my own company, investing as an angel in other startups and mentoring many more new entrepreneurs over the last few years: Do incorporate a company, but keep it simple. Too many entrepreneurs still think plans are for investors, and investors are required to build a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

This new customer paradigm is no longer a homogeneous group driven by traditional media, but a network of unique individuals who interact with each other to develop buying criteria and expect businesses to interact with them in a visible way. Blogs must provide value to customers. Get beyond push messages to real customer engagement.

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Xconomy

MARCH 22, 2018

For the first 50 years of its existence, Bose Corporation invested primarily in in-house research and development to produce its lineup of high-end headphones, speakers, and other audio technologies. But in the past few years, Bose has also started to look outside its walls for other sources of innovation.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On Monday, nine startups began a 16-week program at Canopy San Diego , a new accelerator program for seed-stage companies developing new technologies, products, and services to support the legal cannabis industry. And in fact, California surpassed France as the world’s sixth-largest economy, based on 2015 economic data.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Things are moving quickly in the mobility sector as the race to develop autonomous vehicle technologies revs up. The company envisions it as a sort of cross between a tech startup and a transportation and design think tank. This week brought a spate of mobility news from GM and Cruise, Ford, BAE, and even the federal government.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The company opened in late 2015, offering a 12-week course for $13,500 and promising graduates a software job within 90 days of graduation. Origin Code Academy, one of San Diego’s few coding schools—for-profit companies that offer short-term vocational training in computer programming—said this month it will shutter on Nov.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Boy wearing Oculus Rift via Wikipedia As an advisor to many entrepreneurs, I still hear frequently the irrational exuberance that crowdfunding is the quick alternative for startups that are passed over by overly demanding angels or venture capital investors. Startups need to build a large passionate group of fans before the campaign.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

In late 2015, the National Science Foundation awarded a $6 million grant to the non-profit organization U.S. Ignite to help drive the development of next-generation “gigabit applications,” as part of a broader effort to create “smart gigabit communities” throughout the U.S.

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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

JULY 20, 2016

First came Inception Sciences , a holding company for spinning out biotech startups established by Versant Ventures and Peppi Prasit, the veteran San Diego drug developer. We really have a development focus,” Martin told me. “We But it’s structured differently. We tried to learn from what everyone else has done.”.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Spoiled by speedy, user-friendly consumer apps, he also wondered why finding a biotech consultant to hire was so much harder than, say, lining up a vacation rental on Airbnb.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 24, 2014

TZ: What was the development schedule from idea to picking up your first haul? Not having technical backgrounds ourselves, we were fortunate to have friends develop the app in exchange for equity. AJ: Our drivers can use their personal pick-up trucks, SUVs, or vans – basically anything non-commercial.

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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.

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Xconomy

JULY 6, 2016

The Obama administration’s push to sign up one million Americans for a long-term health study will start in New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Tucson, AZ, top health officials said today. If all goes well, the first participants could sign up in November.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Up until this point, studies of an experimental drug from Biogen and Ionis Pharmaceuticals had focused on patients with the most severe form of a rare, potentially deadly genetic disorder called spinal muscular atrophy. million in funding in fiscal 2015 from corporate supporters, some but not all of whom are drug makers.

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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 Sales of both drugs, ivacaftor (Kalydeco) and the combo pill ivacaftor-lumacaftor (Orkambi), reached almost $1 billion in 2015 and are growing.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Venture capital firms have increased their agtech investments by 80 percent since 2012, bringing total VC investment in the sector to a total of $3 billion in 2015, according to a new report from Boston Consulting Group and AgFunder, an online investment marketplace for agriculture technology. Venture capitalists are similarly cautious.

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Xconomy

JULY 17, 2016

million in 21 San Diego startups. It was Grail, the liquid biopsy startup founded in January with initial funding from Illumina, Arch Venture Partners, Bezos Expeditions, Bill Gates, and Sutter Hill Ventures. The problem was a big change in the preceding quarter, which (erroneously) showed $361.5 Of the $350.5 Craig Venter.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Two “triple” combination regimens for CF , which are meant to expand the reach of its CF drugs, will begin Phase 2 trials by the end of the year, and two additional new CF drugs will start clinical testing in 2017. The news came with some caveats, however, as TheStreet.com explains here. AND IN OTHER NEWS…. billion last year.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 14, 2016

in July 2015. —Cancer drug developer Accelerated Pharma, based in Westport, CT, outlined terms for a $17 million IPO. —Boston-based healthtech startup Iora Health raised a $75 million Series D round led by Singapore-based Temasek. But sagging sales have sent Illumina far down from last year’s peak.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2015

But this is just a reflection midway in June 2015 of the some of the products I love, enjoy or use frequently, and am not an investor in. I even developed a nomenclature where I would put “restaurant” or “movie” or “must read” in the title so I could search later. Still want to port my blog their.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research founding director Tyler Jacks has spent decades making important contributions in cancer research, but until forming Cambridge, MA-based Dragonfly Therapeutics, he’d never spun a startup out of his own lab at MIT. Its financials were posted here.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Just last month, a startup Tsien cofounded announced a round of funding to push ahead with a fluorescent technology that aims to help surgeons cut out tumors without removing healthy tissue. —Healthcare giant Novartis (NYSE: NOV ) is breaking up its cell and gene therapy R&D group , laying off roughly 30 percent of staff.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

” One of her most recent projects was a biotech startup in concert with industry veteran Tony Coles (pictured with Lindquist, above). The firms will sell the data, stripped of patient identities, to drug companies looking for insights as they develop new cancer drugs or plan clinical trials. DRUG PROBLEMS.

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