Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

Fred Wilson wrote a Tweetstorm and then did a blog post on the topic. People religiously read, shared and pontificated on his work. All of the wisdom he used to drop on the blog was now flowing publicly, in realtime, with almost no editing ability, on Twitter. People come to your blog to engage with you. Engagement.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

In October, Elliott subsidiary ASG Technologies Group publicly “ reaffirmed ” an offer to buy Mitek (NASDAQ: MITK ) at $10 per share—an unsolicited proposal that it said Mitek had previously rebuffed, claiming it undervalued the company. Read more » Reprints | Share: The prospective.

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Xconomy

MAY 24, 2019

The La Jolla, CA-based company was founded in 2010 by Mark Lappe, Brendan Eckelman, and Quinn Deveraux. Eckelman is the company’s chief scientific officer and executive vice president of strategy; Deveraux is its executive vice president of early research. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2013

Last year I wrote a blog post on entrepreneurs with a chip on their shoulders. My friend Seth Levine covered this well in his blog post on “ Handling Rejection ” which you should also read. I could link to a bunch of blog posts that come across this way but prefer not to single anybody out. Here’s the deal.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

Brunson’s short and to-the-point blog post, “ It’s Called Networking, Not Using.” It’s why I wrote the blog post on 50 Coffee Meetings. When you want press, it will come. Of course he wanted to talk a lot about his product and company – he was looking for money after all. Be helpful.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

COVID-19 research efforts are often described as a race between companies, a description that reflects the urgency to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus. Still, politicians have pressed companies to move even faster. Nine companies signed a. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Feldstein has been studying the liver for nearly 20 years, and his research now forms the basis of a newly launched company called Jecure Therapeutics. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. but not that this justifies take a 45% revenue share. ” Don’t.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and former executive chairman of its parent company Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL ), argues that the A.I. talent shortage is the most pressing challenge facing the industry today. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS. Estimates of the current global number of skilled A.I.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

It got me thinking, which for me is always the sign of a good blog post. When you are selected you share the stage with 49 other companies (in the case of TechCrunch50. Most people pay attention to the first 5 companies. By company 22 it’s hard to remember what any of them did. Maybe 10.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

This morning, in his first press conference, Trump went further. He said drug companies are “getting away with murder” because of the prices they charge. Read more » Reprints | Share: On the campaign trail and as president-elect he has made occasional noises about drug pricing—giving the U.S.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Following the late-stage failure of its lead program, an experimental gene therapy treatment for the most aggressive form of brain cancer, Tocagen will reduce its workforce by 65 percent, the company said Thursday. The layoffs will result in a staff of about 30 people by year’s end, Tocagen (NASDAQ: TOCA ) said in the press release.

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Xconomy

JUNE 19, 2017

The San Diego biotech company Synthetic Genomics and supermajor ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM ) said today they have successfully inserted a gene in a particular strain of algae that more than doubled its oil content without slowing down the algae’s rate of growth. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS. See below. ]

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. People judge you and your company in the first few seconds. Social media includes blogs, social networks, and video-sharing sites. Handling different media formats.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Another fine line companies are skating is with how much user information they make publicly available. ” If you’re on the wrong side of this line you are risking the reputation of your company. My own view is that for most services it is explicit actions (likes, shares, vote ups, etc.) Tred this line carefully.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2014

Review the company''s press releases, the recipient''s LinkedIn profile, etc. This can be a blog article that helped you make a particular decision or a link in a Tweet that you found helpful. BCC Email – If you don''t have your target''s email address, review the press releases issued by their company.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Yes, I want to scream at the media who gave Trump so much free press and created false equivalencies between his misdeed and misstatements and Clintons. yes, I get those) … There is an unfollow button on Twitter and Facebook and Snapchat and this blog on Medium. This isn’t my work blog or my company blog or a venture capital blog.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

“We elected to postpone our offering given current market and technical conditions,” said co-founder and CEO Peter Beetham in a press release. It’s unclear exactly what conditions spurred the company to postpone at the last minute. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Landline , the operator of a bus network in the Midwest, is one of the latest companies to raise venture capital. The company is actually based out of LA, too, but has completed its initial launch in Minnesota, where there’s greater demand for short-term bus travel. WordPress parent company Automattic secures $300M.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

The truth is – there isn’t a “right&# answer so for your company. It means not over-sharing your deal with VCs or other investors. And these ideas have ways of seeping into board discussions with portfolio companies as in, “have you ever thought about trying A, B or C?&#

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2017

I read commentary or Twitter or blogs and realize that there are also strongly held convictions that there are these evil VCs who do terrible things to mostly altruistic founders. Board work does involve a lot of conflict at moments throughout the company.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

companies should… focus on building amazing products. I recently spoke with Brad about his approach to guerilla marketing and how he instills eclectic marketing tactics in Foundry Group’s portfolio companies. Chris is the CEO of Gnip , a Foundry Group portfolio company. If you have $hitty products, the marketing is impossible.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

31 offer —rejected Monday—was made by ASG Technologies Group, a Florida-based software company that last year sold a controlling stake to Evergreen Coast Capital, Elliott’s Menlo Park, CA, affiliate, which focuses on technology investing. ASG pointed out in a press release announcing the offer that the.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments. This was 2006 and we were now working on our second company. My second company, Koral, was designed to be as simple as possible.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2017

Agtech startup Plenty has reeled in $200 million in financing as the company presses forward on its plans to build a global network of indoor vertical farms. Read more » Reprints | Share: Softbank Vision Fund of Japan led the Series B funding round for South San Francisco, CA-based Plenty.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. I was thinking back to a few previous “insider baseball&# blog debates that raged for several weeks: AngelGate (aka Bin38 secret cabal), convertible debt vs. equity, bubble vs. not, and now the AngelList discussion.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Research that happens at the intersection of different fields can lead to new innovations that tackle pressing problems in the life sciences. Akili Interactive Labs — Prescription Video Games Akili aims to be the first company to receive FDA approval to sell mobile video games as a. Here are brief introductions to the finalists.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 3, 2018

But at a dinner Saturday in Buenos Aires, Chinese President Xi Jinping said he would be “open” to approving the NXP deal were Qualcomm to pursue the company once more, according to a statement from White House press secretary Sarah Sanders. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

John Lusk, along with his Co-Author Kyle Harrison, leveraged their humble company''s newsletter into The MouseDriver Chronicles , a New York Times bestselling book. The company''s newsletter was initially created to share their entrepreneurial journey with their family and friends. blogging, in a sense. every three weeks.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

election, lawmakers pressed Facebook, Twitter, and Google to take exhaustive measures to stop the same thing from happening again. But as senators grilled tech company executives at a Judiciary Committee subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, the discussion often veered to the actions of the big three social.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. If you raise millions of dollars from professional investors it is no longer “your” company but a shared company that you control. In the Early Days. Mentorship. In the Growth Years.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

As part of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, serial entrepreneur and noted venture capitalist Mark Suster recently shared his advice with a large crowd of emerging entrepreneurs. Mark is a Partner at GRP Partners and authors one of the most widely read startup blogs, BothSidesOfTheTable. Getting press is sales.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 13, 2017

[ Editor’s note: Ben Fidler contributed to this report ] The week of frenetic data sharing, deal talking, and party hopping of the J.P. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS. You could hear the needle screeeeeeeeching across the vinyl. Good thing it came Wednesday; Tuesday is the.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was an angel investor in his company, made a bunch of calls on his behalf and then I personally sent it out on AngelList. Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. He had just written another one of his way-over-the-top blog posts. So I thought, WTF?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2010

I have read much commentary on my Twitter stream (ironically) and in the press about how investors are going to abandon investments in the Twitter ecosystem because they seem to appear hostile to ecosystem partners. If you want to understand what the company believes about Twitter’s positioning please read the linked article.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

My colleague at the time James Bailey was bugging me to take a meeting when it was an unknown company because he had younger family members and friends obsessed with Snapchat who were in university at the time. To be fair to TigerText they build a company focused on the healthcare industry and HIPAA compliance. Mostly kidding.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Southern California has had its share of new startup accelerators launch in the last few months, however, few people here have actually experienced an accelerator firsthand. Plus, he told us a little bit about how he's helping to build a mini cluster of technology companies in the Silverlake area. We're also updating the format.

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