socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Mark Suster , the highly visible venture capitalist blogger at GRP Partners, has invested in UK-based TreeHouse , an online, video-focused site for helping users learn web design and development. Suster, in announcing the deal on his blog, did not say if his firm, GRP Partners, participated in the round.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Avalon said Tuesday that GSK (NYSE: GSK ) has agreed to buy the company, Sitari Pharmaceuticals, which has been developing a treatment for celiac disease. Sitari was the first of eight companies spun up through the partnership between the Southern California investment outfit and British pharma company.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? I only recently invested and I only got here through persistence.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they have a Weak Development Team ? He needed some kind of CTO and as well Developers. These “startups” are almost always mostly-non-technical founders offering 1-2% premoney for a “lead developer” position.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2009

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the social media firm headed by former MySpace Chairman Richard Rosenblatt, said this morning that it has made a minority investment in Toronto-based CoveritLive. CoveritLive develops live blogging tools and related products for creating live, online events. READ MORE>>.

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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. 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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Even then private market investors can paper over valuation changes by investing at the same price but with more structure so it’s hard to understand the “headline valuation.” No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development. Markets like these are very kind to angel investors because you get taken out early and see a nice pop on your investment.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 20, 2018

New biopharma company Aristea Therapeutics has raised $15 million from Novo Holdings, the Danish investment company, and secured global rights to an investigational AstraZeneca drug that’s ready for Phase 2 study. The San Diego, CA, company made its public debut this week after starting up quietly earlier this year.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2014

Irvine-based Bitvore , a startup developing big data and intelligence-gathering software which pulls information from both public and private data sources for businesses, said this morning that it has closed a $4.5M, Series A funding round. Bitvore, led by Jeff Curie, said that it has developed a. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JUNE 18, 2020

Typically a new biotech assembles a group of investors that collectively puts in the money a fledgling company requires to develop or acquire potential therapies.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

San Antonio — A biomedical product developer, Watershed Idea Foundry, has created a method of identifying medical devices that have been implanted in the body that uses 3-D printing and its own software.

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Xconomy

MARCH 7, 2019

Chinese pharma company BeiGene has agreed to pay Ambrx $10 million upfront to experiment with technology the biotech has developed in a bid accelerate BeiGene’s search for new protein drugs for cancer treatment. Ambrx says its technology is able to incorporate “non-natural” amino acids into cells like E.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. in Computer Science.

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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. in Computer Science.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The seed round was led by investments from Richard Chino, a key early member of GoTo.com and Smarter.com; Dan Murray, CFO of Machinima ; Derek Draper of Wildfire by Google; Nikhil Srivastava of KKR ; Angel Investor Andrew Schwartz and other angles from LA and Silicon Valley. 750,000 for Scaling & Product development.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Be open & transparent (mimicking the greater social order changes that have come with blogs & social media). Give direct feedback to entrepreneurs on their businesses or if we’re not investing why it’s not a fit for us. When he starts his blog I’ll let you know. But I miss blogging.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

The major battle for press is a battle for “mindshare” and it’s exactly the reason I blog. They are an investment bank that targets the technology & media sectors. Their website proclaims, “LUMA Partners is a different kind of investment bank. I am a VC. I hand out money. How differentiated is that?

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 19, 2021

Abodu began installing homes through a pre-approval process back in 2019, when the city of San Jose created a program that allowed developers of alternative dwelling units to submit plans for pre-approval to cut the time for homeowners. That approval process means that ADU developers like Abodu can be permitted in one hour.

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Xconomy

MARCH 5, 2018

Vividion Therapeutics is partnering with Celgene to develop new drugs that modulate protein levels as a way of treating disease. Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG ) will pay San Diego-based Vividion $101 million up front, which includes an equity investment. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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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. At the time I pointed out: “If I had realized exits almost certainly it would be because I invested in a company that failed. years ago. ” Still. ” Yup.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Located at the southeastern tip of the San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles suburb counts its biggest employers as the adhesive manufacturer Avery Dennison; the Los Angeles industrial team for the real estate developer CBRE; the International House of Pancakes; Disney Consumer Products; DreamWorks Studios; Walt Disney Animation and Univision.

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Glendale Los Angeles Startup Technical Review 271

Xconomy

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Prices for agricultural commodities such as corn, soy, and wheat are at their lowest levels in years, but investment in agricultural technology has never been better. Though some of these products are still in development, farmers have come around to using new technology in an effort to become more efficient and more productive.

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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

MARCH 23, 2015

My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. We talk a lot about his schooling, his early jobs as a developer and then as a VC and we talk about his decision to spend winters in Los Angeles.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

He says on his blog , “I was a dorm room entrepreneur. First Round Capital will inject $500,000 in capital (or $15,000 on average per Company) to the fund to be invested in startups founded by students’ recent graduates from Philadelphia-based universities. By the time I (barely) graduated, we had 20 employees.”. Earlier Experience.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

More importantly, he has just announced his first investment – he led a $7 million investment in Deliv – please read about it on Greg’s spiffy new blog. Greg led this deal all the way but I had the pleasure of spending time with Daphne Carmeli during our investment analysis and was instantly sold.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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Xconomy

APRIL 30, 2019

Nextech Invest, a Swiss investment firm that funds companies developing cancer therapeutics, led the Series B round of funding. As part of the investment, Nextech partner Jakob Loven gets a board seat. The company aims to discover and develop new drugs that can treat disease by modulating protein levels by using a.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

I wrote a blog post on how to work with lawyers at a startup nearly two-and-a-half years ago. This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. I told him that our market was absolutely booming and was worthy of a commensurate investment. Invest they have. It was very widely read.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

Van Nuys-based Audiolife , a firm that develops tools and technology to sell merchandise to music fans, announced today that it has raised $1M in a bridge round of funding. The company said the funding will go to hire key personal, further develop its technology platform, and for strategic partnerships. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Fullerton-based Hipgeo , the developers of iPhone apps for tracking and logging your travels, said today that it has launched a new version of its product which is specifically aimed at travelers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2016

I’ve been online for nearly 30 years (yes, there was CompuServe and Prodigy before the www), blogging for 10 and using social media tools since the earliest days. As somebody who invested his time heavily in writing and wanting to share his thoughts through a blog I learned that I had to Tweet a post 3 times to get it read: 5am, 8am and 10pm.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

In another switchup for venture capital firm Redpoint Ventures efforts in Southern California, Fouad ElNaggar , who had been covering Redpoint's investment efforts in Los Angeles, has departed the firm. ElNaggar said he "missed being an operator" despite describing his positoin at Redpoint as "a dream job."

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization. It’s why most investors proclaim that they invest in people, more than the idea.

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