Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. Initial traffic was driven by word-of-mouth, specifically blogs and a bit of luck. We then captured this conversation again on camera. It then permeated my thinking and I began to explore the theme more as I looked around at web properties.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Cisco has agreed to pay $660 million for Luxtera, a Caltech spinout that makes optical chips for data centers. The semiconductor company, founded in 2001, is based in Carlsbad, CA, a San Diego suburb.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2012

Neuroscientist at Caltech, UCLA’s Department of Neurosurgery, and NYUMoran is interested in attention, emotions regulations, and dreams. Anthony also founded the entertainment-blog powerhouse BUZZMedia, played a role in early craigslist.org as well as Absolut Vodka’s award winning digital media strategy. Moran Cerf Ph.D. / @TwtrDtCm.

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CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

Aaron is also the Program Director for Entretech’s Nitro.la , a non-profit mentoring network in partnership with USC, UCLA and Caltech, to help develop LA’s entrepreneurial community by “getting more companies funded in greater Los Angeles&#. Date & Time: Friday, March 13. 7:30a – 9:30a: CEOFlow working session.

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CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

Aaron is also the Program Director for Entretech’s Nitro.la , a non-profit mentoring network in partnership with USC, UCLA and Caltech, to help develop LA’s entrepreneurial community by “getting more companies funded in greater Los Angeles&#. Date & Time: Friday, March 13. 7:30a – 9:30a: CEOFlow working session.

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CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

Aaron is also the Program Director for Entretech’s Nitro.la , a non-profit mentoring network in partnership with USC, UCLA and Caltech, to help develop LA’s entrepreneurial community by “getting more companies funded in greater Los Angeles&#. Date & Time: Friday, March 13. 7:30a – 9:30a: CEOFlow working session.

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CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

Aaron is also the Program Director for Entretech’s Nitro.la , a non-profit mentoring network in partnership with USC, UCLA and Caltech, to help develop LA’s entrepreneurial community by “getting more companies funded in greater Los Angeles&#. Date & Time: Friday, March 13. 7:30a - 9:30a: CEOFlow working session.

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Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2017

A Silicon Valley entrepreneur has set out to boost the startup ecosystem in San Diego and the rest of Southern California—and he already has scored a coup by partnering with Bill Maris, the founder and former CEO of Google Ventures, now known as GV.

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Xconomy

MAY 10, 2019

With Uber’s long-awaited IPO, Facebook’s mounting controversies, and ongoing debates over drug pricing and safety issues, come a great responsibility. A big story in the innovation community now is about the ethics and regulation of tech and life sciences.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Los Angeles has long been in San Francisco’s shadow when it comes to life sciences investment. But a new venture capital firm led by industry veterans is trying to cast the City of Angels in a new light. Westlake Village BioPartners is launching today with $350 million in committed capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Social Network s / Search / Blogs – Obvious, huh? Basic search engine research can give many clues and if people do keep a blog and you want to meet the person then many clues are obviously there. If you’re three s -hot kids from Stanford, Caltech or MIT you might be able to push valuation higher. At what value?

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. Whether they originate in IM, message board trheads, mail lists or blog posts - conversations can be brought together, made re-enrant and be enhanced with media. The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? ThreadsML , a data fomrat for persistent conversations.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. He blogs here and tweets here. Not to mention the great weather, beaches, and beautiful people.

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Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2017

Cerulean Pharma may have been able to survive one brush with death, but the second has proven fatal. Today, the Waltham, MA, company announced plans to merge with a privately held women’s health company, Dare Bioscience , and sell off, for a pittance, the cancer drugs that were once its prized assets.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

And, let’s not overlook the research juggernaut called Caltech, which managed $332 million in sponsored research and $1.77 blog comments powered by Disqus. Blog Software. billion for its endowment in 2011 alone. MYTH 5: The SoCal crowd is better looking. Okay, so they got this one right. Advertise on VentureBeat. most popular.

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