Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

It’s enough to drown any business which tries to fight it or ignore it, and it’s an opportunity to ride higher and faster than even the successes of Google and Facebook, for those startups that use it as their driving force. zettabytes by the year 2016. For startups, this is an engagement opportunity worth billions of dollars.

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Xconomy

MAY 12, 2017

On a day dominated by news about President Trump’s firing of FBI director James Comey, and its impact on the ongoing investigation of Russian hacking of the 2016 presidential election, two significant developments for the cybersecurity industry also emerged Thursday. Second, at a Senate Intelligence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2016

As an entrepreneur looking for professional investors, one of the quickest ways to lose credibility and get rejected is to start with a ridiculously high pre-money valuation. According to the Angel Capital Association (ACA) blog, the average startup valuation for new ventures receiving angel investments has been around $2.7

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

education tech companies totaled $1.03 billion (across 138 deals) in 2016. While we’re looking at venture deal numbers from the past year , let’s consider the education technology industry, which isn’t broken out by sector in the general reports I’ve seen. Those numbers are down from the $1.45

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

However, savvy startups can leverage LinkedIn to create a customer acquisition and a churn reduction tool. When a user departs their current employer, the company sends a congratulatory note which secures the continuity of their relationship with the user. Businesses typically use LinkedIn to recruit employees.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 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.

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Xconomy

MAY 16, 2019

The San Diego-based company is part of Adigica Health, an e-commerce company founded in 2016 to develop and market direct-to-consumer healthcare products. Louis, MO, and Newark, NJ, backs health and wellness startups. The skincare startup says it will use the money for marketing and product development.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The Bristol, UK-based startup, founded in 2016, has now secured a total of more than $300 million in financing from venture capital firms and other investors including Microsoft and the corporate venture arms of BMW and Dell Technologies. One of the leading contenders in the A.I.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Does it sometimes seem like people all around you are getting promoted, or leaving to start their own business, while all your hard work and experience are getting you nowhere? Particularly in an innovative startup, everyone has to expect problems and change. They certainly would be unlikely to succeed in a new startup.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Connect, the longstanding nonprofit organization that runs one of San Diego’s best-known startup accelerator programs, said Thursday that Tega Therapeutics CEO Tim Scott will become chairman of its board of directors on Dec. Scott went on to found Pharmatek Laboratories, which was acquired in 2016 by.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Each VC has their own take on which services to provide and mostly they’re free but some smaller VCs charge portfolio companies for use of these services but usually at a cheap cost. As a starting point you have to realize that investment firms (which a VC is) have management needs.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

GreatCall, the maker of the Jitterbug cellphone and other products and services for older adults, has extended its partnership with the San Francisco-based ride-hailing company Lyft to offer GreatCall customers the ability to schedule rides without a smartphone app. No financial terms were disclosed.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

million into 61 companies during the last three months of 2017, according to Venture Monitor data released Tuesday. The strength of fourth-quarter deals, lifted by a $125 million financing in November for the molecular diagnostics company Progenity, brought total venture investments in San Diego to nearly $1.92

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. Of course that website isn’t completely up to date but it’s a great resource for seeing the overall picture. But let me start with some data. Much more data in the full post.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

So in February of 2016, he decided to refocus his San Francisco startup on the small, but unexpectedly profitable aspect of his service that could operate in the black. Like many tech entrepreneurs, Sean Behr had a young business that was popular with consumers, but was also losing money.

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Xconomy

MARCH 1, 2018

qster, founded in 2016 to develop technology that enables individuals to aggregate and manage all of their own personal health information, emerged from stealth mode Wednesday. The company said it already connects to more than 1,000 healthcare providers, comprising over 2,000 hospitals and clinics nationwide. In a statement , S?qster

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Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

Any year-end review of technology news must also include reports on Russian hacking of the 2016 election campaign, and the manipulation of social media channels to spread false and divisive political messages. Have all these. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

JANUARY 10, 2017

The deceleration followed a strong start to venture activity during the first half of 2016, but was chalked up as a “return to normalization” in the Venture Monitor report released by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). companies during the fourth quarter—a 20 percent.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

So far, 127 US companies went public in the first nine months of the year and the amount they raised already topped three of the past four years. Collectively these businesses raised about $44 billion in their debuts, topping the $34 billion, $21 billion, and $40 billion raised in 2015, 2016, and 2017, respectively.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Security-tech company Cybereason is announcing another boon flowing from close ties with its biggest investor, Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank. Boston-based Cybereason has formed a partnership with Arm, the dominant developer of computer chip architecture, which was acquired by SoftBank in 2016. Cambridge, U.K.-based

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Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Managed Network Service Providers (MNSPs) have the equipment, staff, expertise, and experience necessary to take on infrastructure tasks so companies can focus less on network upkeep and more on strategic business goals. MNSPs can provide companies with the knowledge and expertise needed to optimize their infrastructure.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Statistical models, simulations, social media outreach, and the capacity to analyze big data sets—you’d think by now that technology would have delivered election forecasts that more reliably predicted Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential race. Even so, the Republican pollsters apparently pegged the race.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2016

If you really want to start a business your way without a boss or professional investor hovering over you, then just fund it yourself or through friends and family, and grow it organically. According to many experts , over 90 percent of successful businesses currently start this way. Operate small, but show a big-company image.

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Xconomy

APRIL 6, 2017

Thirty-seven venture-backed companies in the San Diego area collected almost $350 million in new funding during the first three months of 2017, according to data released this week as part of the latest Venture Monitor report from the National Venture Capital Association and Seattle-based PitchBook. That was down 39 percent from the $574.5

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The IPO of any private company comes as the resolution of a mystery, as closely-held details about its financial performance and strategies are revealed. But the suspense is heightened in the case of San Francisco-based companies Uber and Lyft , which pioneered the huge ride-hailing industry but have yet to come close to turning a profit.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The Democratic Party nominee says she would support charter schools that beef up STEM education (science, technology, engineering, and math). families earning up to $125,000 a year. If that policy goes forward, edtech companies might be enlisted to help those schools accommodate a flood of new student demand.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2018

Much attention was focused this past year on the impact of social media on the 2016 presidential election, as reports emerged about the use of these platforms by entities linked with Russia to spread false, misleading, or inflammatory political messages.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 24, 2016

After being what I assume is the subject of one or more of Seth David’s emotionally charged blog posts, I’ve decided it’s time to respond. This blog post is for information purposes only and my only intention is to move forward. In 2012, my company plundered and it was horrific…bygones.

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Xconomy

APRIL 30, 2018

After demonstrating in 2016 how its synthetic biology technology could produce new biologic drugs , San Diego’s Synthorx today revealed that its lead drug candidate is an improved version of interleukin-2, an anti-cancer drug of intense commercial interest in the 1980s. But these drugs.

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Xconomy

MARCH 14, 2018

Another Dutch investor, BioGeneration Ventures, and New York-based New Science Ventures joined the round, according to a statement from the company. The Dutch biotech and its Encinitas subsidiary were both founded in 2016, but the. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2016

Facebook opens up Instant Articles to all publishers. Facebook started with the biggest publishers in the game: BuzzFeed , Huffington Post , New York Times , Washington Post. Stats… After Gawker properties live on Facebook Instant Articles, US UVs up to 4.7m, from earlier norm of 4m. Nick Denton (@nicknotned) March 1, 2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement. The best communities then become your advocate. Identify the influencers of these communities.

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Xconomy

JUNE 21, 2016

The winners were selected from a field of 17 finalists who represented 15 local companies that collectively employ over 2,700 people and have combined revenue of more than $1 billion. Award winners from San Diego and other regions are now eligible for consideration for the national Entrepreneur Of The Year 2016 program.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

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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Xconomy

MAY 22, 2018

billion since early 2016, according to a statement Monday. Other investors identified by the company in the round are Hillhouse Capital Group, 6 Dimensions Capital, Blue Pool Capital, China Merchant Securities International, CRF Investment, HuangPu River Capital, ICBC International, Sequoia Capital China, and.

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Xconomy

MARCH 2, 2017

venture firms have plenty of capital to invest in new companies, after 328 venture funds raised a total of $51.6 million in 2016. The report shows, however, that venture firms also were more selective about their investment deals in 2016. A new report released today by Seattle-based PitchBook shows that U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization.

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