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Lymber, Founded in Early 2016, Surprised by Mindbody’s Buyout Offer

Xconomy

Lymber, named as a 2017 Xconomy San Diego startup to watch , has developed a technology platform that enables mobile users to book openings in fitness and wellness classes. Lymber aggregates data about the real-time availability of fitness and wellness classes for its users, with about half that data coming from Mindbody, Hecht explained.

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Report: Biotech VCs Perpetuate Boardroom Gender Gap

Xconomy

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. While there is.

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Latest Data Show Venture Capital Industry on Pins and Needles

Xconomy

Year-to-date annualized investment activity suggests that 2016 will see approximately $74 billion invested in just under 8,000 companies, which would still make it the second-most active year in the past decade, although with a marked deceleration. “Funding gap” with projected 2016 activity. The projected $43.2

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. That number is projected to GROW to 70 billion by 2016 (Source: BIA Kelsey). I suppose I could have skipped the whole rest of the blog post and just posted that. We love to streamline and text people.

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Connected Classroom Technology and Essentials for K-12 School Districts

Southern California Edison Blog

Student messaging is increasing collaboration between classes and different schools, while online portals are connecting parents with the schools themselves. Online parent portals can display school announcements, emails from teachers, or updates on assignments that allow parents to be more involved in their child’s classes and workload.

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Clinton Versus Trump: Who’s Stronger on Innovation?

Xconomy

For specifics, I’m drawing mostly from the final draft of the 2016 Republican Platform , the July 21 draft of the 2016 Democratic Platform , Hillary Clinton’s June 22 economics speech in Raleigh, NC, and Donald Trump’s June 28 trade policy speech in Monessen, PA. But she hasn’t talked about the issue much during the 2016 campaign.

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How a War on Climate Change Could Restore Economic Growth in America

Xconomy

The main proponent of this argument is environmentalist and author Bill McKibben, whose August 2016 cover story in The New Republic , “ A World at War ,” makes electrifying reading. If you haven’t read the Gordon book or the McKibben article, well, you’re in luck: I’m about to summarize them here.

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