socalTECH

MAY 5, 2011

GoPro , the maker of wearable, action sports cameras, which has operations in San Diego, has scored a strategic investment which includes the involvement of Burbank Steamboat Ventures , GoPro said today. GoPro also has operations in San Diego, and also recently acquired San Diego's Cineform.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. The key it to have “realistic capital.” Maker Studios.

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socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2019

San Diego-based Wheels (www.takewheels.com) was co-founded by Jon and Josh Viner, who were the co-founders of Wag, where they raised nearly $400M in venture capital. Wheels currently operates in Los Angeles and San Diego. Josh Viner: Wheels is live in Los Angeles and San Diego. What is Wheels?

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 31, 2018

[ Editor’s Note: Euan Robertson, the Director of Strategic Planning & Special Projects at Columbia Technology Ventures, co-wrote this article.] It is a commonly held belief that academic research institutions, including those in New York City, are fierce competitors.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2018

Or, maybe instead, it’s a day filled with long lunches and listless Internet surfing, as you seek out all the interesting articles you missed during the week. Fridays can be the most productive work day, as you look to shore up everything before the weekend starts.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2016

A recent Wall Street Journal article that raised the possibility of Biogen as the target of another huge pharma buyout cited the lack of productivity as a major driver of M&A in the pharmaceutical industry. Yet despite relative plenty in the bio-venture community, pharma suffers from a shortage of drug candidates.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

This channel of our website, with its own home page, will feature all articles about these subjects and related topics from across our 11-market network. Today we have three articles to kick off our coverage. and Cybersecurity. Xconomy editors around our network will be contributing to the new channel.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

This dedicated portion of our website, featuring its own home page, will bring together all articles about education and edtech from across our 11-market network. Today, with the channel’s debut, we are running three articles. to find all articles on this vital subject from across our network. Agtech and Food, and Cybersecurity.

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Xconomy

MAY 30, 2016

What, I think, is the first technology-based, early-stage venture capital fund anywhere, American Research and Development , was founded between Georges Doriot at Harvard Business School and Karl Compton, who was president of MIT at the time. It was a little company called Amicon, which the brand is still around.

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Xconomy

JULY 20, 2018

You’ve made it to Friday. Time to curl up in your cubicle, pop open one of these in-depth, entertaining reads, and catch up on some of what you missed during a busy week. This week we’re taking a look at all the political stories that are coming out of the tech world.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Allergan CEO Brent Saunders recently told Reuters , “My biggest fear, every time there’s another headline…is that venture capital needed for innovation [and early drug discovery] could move out of the sector…. It has started.”

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Venture capital. In a recent Forbes.com article , contributor Tara Brown wrote of her own misapprehension moving from San Francisco to Southern California, saying, “I’m a technologist and moving away from the tech hub of the world to the land of Botox seemed like a really bad career move. Editor’s picks.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. The VC partner, somebody I greatly respect said, “Yeah, we like Gil and what they’re doing. Let me use LA as an example.

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Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

Ley, who published in January an article in Nature Drug Discovery about integrin drugs, cautions there’s still much debate amongst scientists about how integrins work. “I Springer isn’t disclosing Morphic’s discoveries, and the company has yet to publish research in peer-reviewed journals about its work.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch ran my article yesterday as a guest post but I wanted to have a copy here for anybody who missed it and for future readers of this blog. We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We were based in London. My family went without me.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Order a reprint of this article now. A version of this article appeared October 5, 2012, on page M1 in the U.S. Downtown San Diego Condos.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Kuo is the founder, publisher, and editor of socalTECH.com , as well as its sister publications, techrockies.com, texastechpulse.com, silicontap.com, and nwinnovation.com, all focused on technology news and venture capital in their respective markets. Great article – good stuff. She just spoke at TED EX in San Diego.

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