Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2019

San Francisco-based Degreed is among the educational technology companies now classified as “learning experience platforms,’’ because they organize staff participation in skills development training and coordinate it with the goals of employers, who are their clients. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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JULY 13, 2013

And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups. And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses. I did programming for the career center at UC San Diego, trying to build programs for the career center. it would make more sense than “me.”

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Xconomy

MAY 29, 2020

ASCO 2020 won’t be the Windy City gathering it usually is, but drug and diagnostics developers are still raring to share fresh data from their efforts in cancer immunotherapy, targeted treatments, and early-stage screening methods during the course of the three-day scientific program. While oncology.

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Xconomy

MARCH 5, 2019

Gottlieb’s remit extended beyond drugs, of course, to food safety and tobacco regulation, and his legacy may well rest in his efforts to curtail teenage vaping and smoking. He leaves a record of health and medical regulation that was more active than critics who spoke out against his nomination in early 2017 might have expected.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Instead, of course, they travel via the Internet to someone else’s data center—an unquestionably physical array of servers set on solid floors that can bear the weight. But cloud gets it right on one score—it suggests distance.

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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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Xconomy

APRIL 16, 2018

million agreement to acquire General Assembly, a tech training and career development company that offers courses online and at 20 campuses worldwide. The Adecco Group, the global staffing and worker training giant, has inked a $412.5

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 8, 2017

And, of course, there are several healthcare implications for the Republican tax bill, the fate of which. The FDA will consider for the first time whether a video game should be approved as medicine. The agency could also give its first nod for a gene therapy. We could see the first clinical trial by a U.S.

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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. Just about nothing, one or two courses— Ed Roberts had one—on entrepreneurship.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

Participants will also be paired with coaches and will network for board seats after the course is over. The organizers say they want to place the entire inaugural class on boards within a year of completion of the course. percent of partners in traditional VC firms were women, Liftstream found.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. But notably you had the following changes: Horizontally scalable computing & storage systems, which meant you required less capital up front for hardware. I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1. Venture Capital.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

Celgene paid Acetylon $100 million in 2013 for an option to buy the company outright, but the deal recently expired without an acquisition, leaving Acetylon to chart a new course. . —Option-to-buy deals are by definition no guarantee, and an agreement between Boston-based Acetylon Pharmaceuticals and Celgene is the latest example.

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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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