socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2018

The ruling came in a lawsuit, filed by the Plaintiff, Allan Candelore, in a class action suit on behalf of consumers over 30 years old who were required to pay $19.99 Tinder launched its Tinder Plus service--which gives users premium features--back in March of 2015. a month for Tinder Plus, nearly double the $9.99 READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2012

According to SpaceX, it has been awarded two, Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV)-class missions by the USAF, which will launch on the SpaceX Falcon in 2014 and 2015. Hawthorne-based SpaceX has scored a new win today, this time, with the United States Air Force.

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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2015

The company said it was selected to participate in the 2015 class of REach , a growth technology accelerator program sponsored by Second Century Ventures, the strategic investment arm of the National Association of Realtors (NAR). AssetAvenue is led by David Manshoory.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

WINTER For starters when we conducted our annual VC & LP survey in December of 2016 to prepare our annual Upfront State of the VC Industry report we found that twice as many VCs cut their investments in 2016 relative to 2015 with > 30% of VCs having cut investments. And more than 50% of CVCs said they plan to invest even more in 2017.

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Xconomy

MARCH 9, 2018

In the debate over high drug prices, arguably no class of drug has been punished more by insurers than the new cholesterol fighters called PCSK9 inhibitors. Two came to market in 2015, chalking up relatively meager sales for their owners.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Our 3rd fund began investing in March 2009 (raised in 2008) and our 4th fund started in April 2012 so this fund will naturally begin investing around March / April 2015. Fund of Funds (people who raise money from large funds and then break it up to invest into VCs and other asset classes). Why do they invest in venture capital?

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

Good news: a quick review of TechCrunch’s March 2015 List of Top 20 U.S. I previously wrote about LaunchTN’s second-phase master accelerator class called The TENN, which has a proven track record of helping startups thrive after graduation from an accelerator. Convert Graduate-Founders Into Mentors.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2017

In the mega-class of 177 biotechs that went public from 2012 through 2015, women held 11 percent of the board seats, according to their 2016 regulatory filings. That’s according to British recruitment firm Liftstream and its new study of biotech companies that went public in the recent boom years.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Overall, according to Gartner, the SaaS market will top $22 billion by 2015. Most companies do not have the infrastructure to build and support an enterprise-class portal. SaaS is bringing sexy back, in 2015 and beyond. But there are some even bigger reasons organizations at every stage should increase their savvy in SaaS.

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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

It's a curated marketplace, with best-in-class products and experiences. We were incubated and launched in Canada in 2014, and at the end of 2015, we launched in the U.S. What we saw during the holidays in 2015 certainly supports our vision of what we're doing as a mobile-first, gifting platform and destination.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

The TMP began in the late 1990''s as a single class inside the Engineering College. In addition to an Undergraduate Certificate, the Program is launching a Master of Technology Management degree in 2015. Although the classes are open to students of all disciplines, the Program''s primary focus in on educating "techpreneurs.".

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2015

These include the classes in school that focus on case studies and team exercises, but extend beyond the academic world to professional and industry seminars. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 4/24/2015. Don’t skip new “learning how to learn opportunities.”

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

billion, 2,034 deals) and the third quarter of 2015 ($21.1 billion, 2,559 deals), signaling perhaps a period of digestion given how much had been invested during the 2014-2015 window. As a percentage of overall activity, seed investing dropped from 55 percent in the third quarter of 2015 to 50 percent in this year’s third quarter.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

In 2015, Cybersecurity startups saw 332 funding deals with investments hitting the highest ever at $3.8 For 2015, there were 133 information security M&A deals, according to 451 Research’s Tech M&A Outlook 2016. In an ideal world, and from the perspective of a venture investor, this would absolutely be the case.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Bruce, along with his wife Lynda, created a learning company from their garage, initially by holding in-person classes and later selling VHS tapes via mail order. Bruce and Lynda eventually grew their startup into a global powerhouse, offering 5,700 classes and 255,000 video tutorials to over 4 million users.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2018

In 2015, a worker in the San Francisco Bay Area earning $100,000 a year would need to put their entire post-tax salary into renting a three-bedroom apartment. Areas such as Oakland and San Francisco saw rent increases as high as 40 percent between 2015 and 2017. And yet others feel that better innovation is happening elsewhere.”

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JULY 12, 2017

The BB-8 app-enabled Droid had such a global adoption among kids and adults that it was named the number one Star Wars toy of 2015. Through inspirational content, online classes, and products, Brit + Co enables their audience of over 125 million to use creativity to shape their best lives. Epic Games.

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OCTOBER 3, 2015

World-class entrepreneurship will never be learned totally in the classroom. Marty Zwilling First published on IvyExec.com on 10/02/2015. For example, startup leaders should probably overreact to values violations, and under-react to the next crisis. Always reflect before you react. You don’t learn that in the classroom.

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

The reason for that, and it's really important, is the bane of this asset class is the generally poor liquidity that venture capital provides. When I talk to LPs, that's always the one or two major pain points of the asset class they talk about. That also helps our LPs, because it shortens the liquidity cycle in the asset class.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Gomez said he was inspired to start Canopy San Diego after spending time at CanopyBoulder , the cannabis industry fund and accelerator founded in 2015, less than three years after Colorado voters approved a similar marijuana legalization initiative. billion in 2015—a number estimated to grow by 25 percent this year to $6.7

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2015

Entrepreneurs consider vacations, training classes and administrative staff a luxury they rarely see. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/21/2015. Startup challenges can be more painful then corporate frustrations. Make sure your passion is running to a startup, not away from corporate.

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APRIL 15, 2015

The program will feature four master classes each year, giving groups of 12 to 15 rising industry leaders an opportunity to learn directly from experts on specialized topics in areas such as business development, marketing, engineering, and product management. The first session will be held in early summer 2015 in LA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

Otherwise find an inexpensive class on grant writing. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 6/3/2015. If you still have any connections at the local university, look for some guidance from related subject-matter professors. Seek funding from multiple sources concurrently. They don’t ask for equity either.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2015

If this is your first foray into the entrepreneurial arena, with no track record in business or technology, your best and perhaps only supporters will be that class of investors known in the trade as friends, family and fools (FFF). Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 4/3/2015. They believe in you above all else.

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Xconomy

JULY 5, 2016

In fact, they led the way for the state’s GDP growth of 3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015, which was the highest in the nation , according to the U.S. Several world-class research institutions are located in the state, including Indiana University, Purdue University, and the University of Notre Dame.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

In 2015 an additional 237 thousand joined the online community. As online viewership and behaviors grew in 2015 – the average U.S. In 2015, issues of online security and data privacy consumed headlines. One of the stars of 2015 was undoubtedly Slack. percent in 2016,and to be almost double 2015 levels by 2018.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2015

Most startups don’t have the time or resources to send team members to formal training classes, either in-house or off-site. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 6/12/2015. Most big company executives have forgotten how to do the work -- they make decisions and expect staff members to implement them.

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AUGUST 24, 2015

You thought media twitter was bad… You thought tech twitter was bad… — Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) August 24, 2015. If markets come back quickly then you’ll see a return to normal 2015 funding timeframes (which I can tell you are much quicker than in times past). My favorite Tweet of the morning came from Hunter Walk.

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MARCH 1, 2016

We All Know That Dollars into Venture Have Gone Up … As a starting point, we know that the dollars into venture have steadily rebounded to pre great-recession levels, with just under $30 billion committed to US technology venture capital in 2015. And that’s real cash that LPs can’t put to work in other asset classes.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 17, 2015

An additional 1-week coding class is available for up to 25 campers. WHEN: Camp July 6 – August 2, 2015. The camp features live broadcasts, online discussions with campers and experts, and collaborative design jam events where participants create community-driven projects. SUMMER OF MINECRAFT ONLINE CAMP.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

million in 2012 to more than $59 million in 2015. Another oft-mentioned concern about peer-to-peer lenders is that most members of the new class of lending companies have yet to prove their business model in the ultimate stress test —an economic downturn.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

million in 2012 to more than $59 million in 2015. Another oft-mentioned concern about the peer-to-peer industry is that most members of the new class of lending companies have yet to prove their business model in the ultimate stress test —an economic downturn.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

It was very simple work at the beginning, but over the last three years we''ve really moved up the value chain, delivering world class customer care and more complex back office services. At this point, we''re growing very rapidly, and potentially looking at taking some outside funding in early 2015, so we can speed up that growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2011

Gartner says our market will be $50 billion in 2015.” A world-class CEO will be joining us after the funding event.” At best we can count on it taking many years to catch on, just like other disruptive technologies before you. No investor wants to wait that long for his return, or fund the years of waiting.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

Standard of Living Since the Civil War (Princeton, 2015). Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century put these questions in the spotlight three years ago, but they’ve been getting renewed attention thanks to Northwestern University economist Robert J.

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DECEMBER 14, 2014

We have some announcements set for 2015. The idea is that in stead of handing out money to strangers in a class structure, management either comes up with ideas and brings on teams to build it or teams internally tinker with ideas and the best ones assemble teams around them. It’s where their passions are, too.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Brett Crosby: We have been in invitation-only mode for all of 2015, and that's been growing and growing. This is not peer-to-peer lending, but it's about letting individual investors get the ability to invest in the same asset class as big institutional investors like Goldman Sachs. Where are you now with the service?

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