Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Retrophin , the drug developer founded by controversial former biotech executive Martin Shkreli, has posted positive results from a midstage study for its treatment for a rare kidney disease. This time, he increased the price from $13.50 The Leerink analysts placed a $32 per share price target on the stock. to $30 apiece.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. My first job after college was as a developer at Andersen Consulting. I had to laugh a bit reading it. THE FIVE C’S.

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Xconomy

JULY 18, 2016

In early trading Monday, Evoke’s (NASDAQ: EVOK ) stock price was down 72 percent to $3.02 The company is developing a nasal formulation of metoclopramide, , an already-approved treatment for digestive pain and other symptoms related to the stomach being unable to empty its contents. per share as of 11:30 a.m. in New York.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

He studied the errors that other people had made and tried to improve on them. He wanted to create awareness for himself to generate marketing buzz and demand and then get the retail stores to pay wholesales prices for his cds. There are many analogies here for software development. He made many of his own mistakes.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 3, 2011

As noted in What Color Are Your Elephant’s Sunglasses , the large majority of research and development expenditures are spent on product features (e.g., Like music, movies and blog entries, startups are a remix of that which came before. smaller, faster, cheaper, lighter, etc.)

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

—Cambridge, MA-based messenger RNA drug developer Moderna Therapeutics is raising another huge financing round, according to an SEC filing. The companies—Amgen, Sanofi, and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals—are due to release important long-term data next year that will shape the debate over the drugs’ prices.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

New documents came to light that showed the sugar industry paid for studies downplaying the ties between sugar and heart disease. —Going for IPO: CRISPR Therapeutics, split between Switzerland and Cambridge, MA, filed paperwork to become the third developer of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing drugs to go public on the Nasdaq.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Typically entrepreneurs doubt themselves because they undervalue their offerings, but it isn’t about creating a product, setting a price and hoping people will buy. Valu e and Exp erience versus Price and Product. Now study the event organizer. Blogs and Forums. The best place to find a directory of blogs is AllTop.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but I realized I was thinking about the issue more from investor perspective and a very narrow topic of how to price the round. If you can’t get product released and validated then do user studies. I am always an advocate of setting a price.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

We set our sites on our IPO price and then worked back to our current valuation and showed potential employees what we thought they could earn (with all legal caveats) if the company was successful. So I developed this standard line that I used for all employees. The stupid thing is we sort of believed it ourselves.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

Despite the benefits of developing an app, there are valid reasons why retailers choose not to invest in one. Developing a mobile app can be extremely expensive and some retailers believe it is futile to spend that money if a mobile-optimized site is already in place. MYTH: Development costs are too high.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

This goes into the heart of my controversial blog post (coming soon! Come back to this blog over the next 2 weeks and I’ll explain. If you fold simply because they haven’t responded to your last two emails you won’t have success in business development, sales, press, recruiting … anything.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

Andrea: Anybody who’s looking for clothes, shoes or accessories can come to our site and put up a post of what they’re looking for with the size, price range, etc., Kyle: What’s been your favorite part about developing the company ShopperSeeks? Fun Fact: Andrea took C and has developed. Andrea: The lack of female developers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

It is simply the most important way to proactively control your career development and how the market perceives you. Every time I approached Network Solutions (or any technical group in Accenture) they wrote me off as “a business guy” since I studied economics and was on the Accenture “business track.”

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Xconomy

AUGUST 19, 2016

Everyone is waiting until 2017, when huge studies of the drugs’ ability to prevent heart attacks and strokes start to provide data. . —The FDA last summer approved two new cholesterol fighting drugs known as PCSK9 inhibitors, but so far the market has rejected them, resulting in paltry sales.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

One, is it makes it easy for businesses to embed that video on their own website, on blogs, and Facebook, and they can also link to that video on their Google Places page. There was a recent study which showed that adding a video makes it 53 times more likely that you'll have a Google first page search result.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

—Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY ) said that a breast cancer drug it’s been developing called abemaciclib didn’t meet a predetermined interim efficacy bar in a Phase 3 trial. Celgene remains an Acetylon investor, however, and the two are testing drugs together in a variety of trials. Its financials were posted here. In the U.S.,

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The firms will sell the data, stripped of patient identities, to drug companies looking for insights as they develop new cancer drugs or plan clinical trials. The Mayo Clinic cardiologist behind the report published a study earlier this year about long QT misdiagnosis leading to improper defibrillator implants.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

If you have the proper mechanisms to accurately calculate your Cost Per Customer / Lifetime Value Equation, you will happily purchase as many customers from affiliates as your cash flow constraints will allow, as long as the average acquisition price is less than the customers’ average lifetime value. Copyright © 2007-9 by J.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

This week, a panel of 28 scientists presented the National Cancer Institute’s National Cancer Advisory Board a set of recommendations and national priorities for basic research, clinical trial practice, and drug development. Is this akin to a nationwide study, like the government’s precision medicine initiative ?

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Xconomy

JULY 8, 2016

British medical journal The Lancet published a study , funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, that showed viral hepatitis has become the seventh leading cause of death globally, up from tenth in 1990. The FDA has halted the trial , and Juno’s share price dropped 28 percent after hours on Thursday.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping process, product development, Prototyping. . Bootstrapping development, team management. . Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. Bootstrapping development, Startup, Website content. . Bootstrapping development, minimum viable product, startups. . Jon Loyens, Bazaarvoice. The constrai.

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Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

BIO president and CEO Jim Greenwood (pictured), a former Congressman-turned-lobbyist, told an audience, “We are fighting back,” and unveiled plans to put some of the blame for high drug prices on insurance companies. The new prices don’t reflect rebates and discounts.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

First Principles. Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The scientific goals, writ large, included nationwide data sharing among researchers and drug developers; better prevention through medicine (such as the HPV vaccine) and public education (anti-smoking campaigns); and a registry that could match cancer patients to trials based on genetics and other factors.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 25, 2019

After guiding the CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing startup from scientific breakthrough toward the development of a potential cutting-edge medicine, slogging victoriously through a legendary patent fight , and reaching the cusp of an historic clinical trial , the well-traveled Bosley is cutting out, the company said Tuesday.

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Xconomy

APRIL 20, 2018

While pembrolizumab notched the headline-grabbing data, others are also working to develop options for various subsets of patients. The price of drugs is certainly on a lot of minds these days, including the mind of President Trump, as he reportedly will make a. Who will be able to afford all these options?

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Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

But the company said this week that sales of Sovaldi and Harvoni, which share a common ingredient, sofosbuvir, have slowed with fewer patients starting on the drugs and prices undercut by fierce competition from AbbVie and Merck. The study is one of several Celgene is running to try to expand the use of its blockbuster blood cancer drug.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

In the biomedical world, perhaps the biggest question looming over President Donald Trump’s upcoming pick for Food and Drug Administration commissioner is how drastically that person will help roll back FDA regulations. Trump said at last week’s meeting in Washington D.C.,

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Drug company stocks got a boost with the defeat of Hillary Clinton, a vocal critic of drug prices. Will he take a softer stance on drug prices? But her near doubling of Trump (62 to 33 percent) didn’t translate into support for drug price controls. CRISPR DEVELOPMENTS. The Nitto drug is in a Phase 1b study.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 28, 2016

. —Two Vertex rivals touted early-stage data at the NACFC conference: Belgium-based Galapagos , which is developing its own triple combination regimen, and Netherlands-based ProQr Therapeutics (NASDAQ: PRQR ), which is advancing an RNA-based CF drug sprayed into the lungs. THIS WEEK IN DRUG PRICING…. billion last year.

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