socalTECH

MAY 19, 2014

Incentive Corp , a developer of private, intranet services aimed at small and medium sized business users, said this morning that it has raised $1.8M in a funding round, and set up shop in Los Angeles. The startup--which has headquarters in Malmo, Sweden--said the funding will go towards launching in the United States. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers. Im part of a CTO group that meets once a month to discuss various topics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2021

If you are one of the many professionals still trapped between jobs by circumstances outside your control, or are about to dump the loser job you have now, you should be actively defining and starting your own business, in parallel with looking for that ideal job. Practice developing a business plan. Fun learning experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2023

It’s hard to convert an idea into a business, and it’s also hard to get back into the groove with all the distractions of other activities and your “real job.” If you’re producing just one page, one blog post, or one sketch a week, you expect it to be good and final, and you start to worry about quality. Frequency nurtures frequency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2017

For example, you might block your working day into half-hour segments, and never allow any activity or meeting to take too much of your time. Start wherever you can to grow beyond the phone, texts, and email, to a blog, photos on Instagram /Pinterest, or YouTube. Expand your communication media world.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

And measuring activities or output can mislead you into thinking you’re doing a great job. Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. The reality is that you might be better off doing less activity but doing “the right” activities really well. They’re tasked with doing … marketing.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 1, 2019

Here’s how the two describe it in a blog post about the new program: Venture partner, operating partner, entrepreneur in residence, advisor etc, so many names and so many different implementations, so we decided to simply give our unique relationship it’s own name- a Sage. . million round.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. The cost of social media done well is low.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2020

It’s hard to convert an idea into a business, and it’s also hard to get back into the groove with all the distractions of other activities and your “real job.” If you’re producing just one page, one blog post, or one sketch a week, you expect it to be good and final, and you start to worry about quality. Frequency nurtures frequency.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

In a post on Kik’s blog on Friday the MediaLab said that it has “finalized an agreement” to acquire Kik Messenger. “ Kik is one of those amazing places that brings us back to those early aspirations,” the blog post read. .” Now we know the the company: MediaLab.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. “Ok, so this guy can write a blog and source deals but can he make any money?” I have huge confidence in the companies that I’ve backed that are still active.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

You can’t get any word-of-mouth or media activity by hiding. Evaluate customer response prior to development. Stealth mode normally means no time for search engine optimization prior to product launch, not to mention relevant blogging activity, and link building. Optimize your web history and presence.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

Instead of focusing on marketing as an activity… integrate it into (your) products.”. If you look at many of the companies we invest in, sure they have traditional marketing activities, but most of their growth and momentum comes from delighting their users. “…companies should… focus on building amazing products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2020

You can’t get any word-of-mouth or media activity by hiding. Evaluate customer response prior to development. Stealth mode normally means no time for search engine optimization prior to product launch, not to mention relevant blogging activity, and link building. Optimize your web history and presence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Based on my recent experience as an angel investor, and advisor to new business owners, I now recommend that all entrepreneurs, especially introverts, learn and practice the discipline they need to build and nurture relationships with key constituents through the following activities: Formalize a mentoring relationship with someone you trust.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Jason Calacanis, the CEO of Mahalo.com and well known angel investor, said today that he has invested in Riptano , the developer of the open source, Apache Cassandra online transaction database software. Calacanis joined Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Rackspace Hosting, and others as an investor in the firm.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2015

As an active investor in the Los Angeles technology market we’re always seeking to better understand the data and trends of why our market has grown so rapidly since 2009. Most importantly – this should encourage LP funds to back more local firms and I would hope to see more indigenous funds to develop.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 6, 2020

In the past seven years BioIntervene has been working to develop “ultra-selective” compounds to target an adenosine receptor associated with pain relief. BioIntervene’s BIO-205 is an A3 adenosine receptor (A3AR) agonist, which means it homes in on and activates the A3 receptor on adenosine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. The cost of social media done well is low.

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Tips Startup Social Media News 161

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. how will we handle those responses.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Great by Cliff Allen Business Networking Online who I had blogged about previously in Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Then, face-to-face meetings and activities become much more valuable. And, since he's using a public blog anyone can join the conversation. Cliff create a great image for the group.

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Xconomy

APRIL 24, 2020

COVID-19’s spread has clamped down on a lot of economic activity, including the work of developing and testing new medicines. But the FDA isn’t showing signs of slowing down, at least when it comes to drugs filed for accelerated approval. The regulator signed off on three such drugs in the past week.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. Develop viral content. Seed viral activity. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Phoenix Molecular Designs, a biotech developing kinase inhibitors to treat cancer, has brought in an undisclosed amount of financing—boosting its total seed funding raised to $12 million. The goal is. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? million monthly active users who are creating more than 32 million text messages per day! OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? Let me start with the power of blogging.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 3, 2019

South San Francisco-based Veracyte (NASDAQ: VCYT ) announced Tuesday that it has reached a deal for global rights to develop and commercialize diagnostics based on the nCounter FLEX system. The nCounter is a NanoString (NASDAQ: NSTG ) instrument used to analyze the activity of genes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Allocate time for active participation in relevant outside industry conferences, and public panels or TED talks that look ahead. Online it may be time to take a formal position via blogs and interviews. You need to be visible in marketing efforts, viral videos, and interactions with key customer segments.

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Mentor IBM IBM Social Media 145

Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2020

Alnylam had sold the drug’s development and commercialization rights seven years ago. Biotech activity. Now in the hands of Novartis (NYSE: NVS ), the potential blockbuster seller awaits an FDA decision. This week, Alnylam swung a deal for half of its inclisiran royalty rights, positioning itself to gain up to $2 billion total.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The challenge is how to develop that self-leadership in every aspiring entrepreneur and business professional role. It may be time for you to start your own blog, write a book, or volunteer as a speaker at public events in your domain. Demonstrate integrity and strong ethics in all activities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2022

You may dream of developing a new silicon chip technology, but a bit of research should tell you that most disruptive solutions take billions in investment, and more time than you can afford for acceptance. More important than a business plan may be early networking, a web site and blog, and building relationships with key industry experts.

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Social Media Writing Ideas Resource 105

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

billion deal to acquire Aimmune Therapeutics, developer of immunotherapies for food allergies. The deal activity extended to cancer immunotherapy as Gilead Sciences and AbbVie each struck up alliances to shore up their respective drug. Food conglomerate Nestlé is delving deeper into pharmaceuticals with its $2.6

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Xconomy

JULY 13, 2020

Three biotech companies collectively raised $584 million in their initial public offerings last week, continuing a streak of IPOs that has the healthcare sector playing a leading role in the robust level of market activity this summer.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. Developer and publisher of social mobile games. Scans the web for a kid’s activity in realtime and sends alerts. -Co-Founders

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

The new Microsoft Ventures will seek investments that fall outside the commercial deals that the company has done more frequently in the past, writes Nagraj Kashyap, corporate vice president of Microsoft Ventures, in a blog post announcing the new effort. That forms one end of the company’s spectrum of startup activities.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

And I'm looking forward to more interaction now that she's blogging. We streamline strategy development using a Reality-Based approach, then execute cross-media programs including websites, brochures, ads, booths. BLOG: [link] LINKEDIN: [link] TWITTER: [link] What's a phone booth? Maybe you can blog about that?

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Marketing Social Media Blogging Media 150

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

In that article I talked about how PR drives: recruiting, employee retention, biz dev deals, funding and even M&A and that often “attribution” to your PR activities is unknown. As the CEO you need to realize that doing PR is part of the piechart of activities called “your job.” I have no money?

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Xconomy

AUGUST 26, 2019

For Justin Gover, CEO of British drugmaker GW Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: GWPH ), society’s sudden embrace of cannabidiol (CBD), the other active ingredient found in the cannabis plant, is a trip—though CBD won’t make you trip.

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