Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The doors have opened at a GE Healthcare-supported open-access lab for startups at AstraZeneca’s former global center for oncology research and development at Alderley Park, the largest bioscience research campus in the UK. Public-private partnership and science park. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2012

San Diego-based Stocktwits , the online, finance focused micro-messaging site run by Howard Lindzon, has a problem: Twitter just made stock tickers on the site clickable, replicating a major feature of Stocktwits.

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Xconomy

MARCH 27, 2020

Equillium has halted two clinical trials of its lead drug candidate out of an “abundance of caution” related to the coronavirus outbreak but continues to enroll in a third, which is evaluating the antibody as a treatment for acute graft-versus-host disease.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

San Diego-based Confident Technologies , the new startup which is using image authentication technology originally developed by Vidoop, has rolled out its image-based CAPTCHA tools, the firm said this week. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2009

San Diego-based Websense said Tuesday that it has acquired Defensio, a provider of technology for dealing with spam on social networking and Web 2.0 WebSense said the buy would extend the firm's capabilities by providing visibility into spam posted on blogs, user forums, and social networking web sites. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 16, 2019

CommonGrounds Workspace, a San Diego, CA-based company that operates flexible office spaces in California and Colorado today, announced Wednesday that it had raised $100 million in a Series A financing to expand its lineup to roughly 50 sites during the next two years.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 6, 2016

San Diego’s Brain Corp. has a vision for developing the kind of technology that could some day be used to operate self-driving cars. Headed by the computational neuroscientist Eugene Izhikevich, the company maintained a low profile at Qualcomm’s San Diego headquarters until 2013, when Brain Corp. Brain Corp.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Austin —Apple expects to make thousands of new hires around the country from Seattle to New York, the company announced Thursday, with its biggest growth planned for Austin, TX. The computer and smartphone manufacturer plans to hire 5,000 new employees in Austin and to spend $1 billion building a new campus on the north end of Austin.

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Xconomy

APRIL 14, 2017

Editor’s note: This piece was originally posted on Textio’s company blog. Hey Siri, how’s the weather today?” “OK OK Google, remind me to pay the power bill.” Alexa, tell me a joke!” Bots are eating the world. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

APRIL 9, 2020

The companies said Thursday that the vaccine trials will initially be conducted at multiple sites in the US and Europe. The partnership pairs the mRNA vaccine technology of BioNTech (NASDAQ: BNTX ) with the vaccine and clinical trial experience of Pfizer (NYSE: PFE ).

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's another big week for startup launches, this time in San Diego at DEMOfall. One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. It also supports blogs.

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

Rob Farrow is one of the co-founders of Chi.mp , a new startup which is getting set to launch a service to allow users to manage their profiles across the many sites on the Internet. There are so many social networking sites, how do you define what's relevant? Meebo is another powerful site. In late 2007, Chi.mp What Chi.mp

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

AstraZeneca says it will establish centers for drug research and artificial intelligence development in China. The company currently operates R&D centers at its Cambridge, UK, headquarters as well as at sites in Maryland and Sweden. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2016

Radicle, which takes its name from the botany term for the part of a plant embryo that develops into the primary root, was founded by a mix of agricultural investment and industry heavyweights. Radicle’s physical presence includes sites in San Diego; Palo Alto, CA; Research Triangle Park; parts of the Midwest; and Israel.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. It’s a very product that allows you to do visual search of eBay, ETSY, Match.com, AllRecipes and several others sites. Provider of real-time data and predictive analytics for web site publishers. They sponsor TWiVC.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 2, 2018

The Austin-based startup had developed a Web browser that would require users to prove they are who they say they are. So, when Facebook announced this week that its site was, Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS. Everybody knows who everybody is,” he said.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Economic development officials are justifiably salivating at the once-in-a-generation opportunity to attract what is arguably the 21st century’s most important company, and up to 50,000 high-paying technology jobs.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

The Pharmaceutical Industry Association of Puerto Rico lists 22 manufacturing sites on the island, operated by companies such as Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN ), Pfizer (NYSE: PFE ), Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY ), and Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ ). Companies have avoided sounding alarms; Amgen, for one, Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

JULY 18, 2016

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. Evoke’s late-stage study failed to show a significant benefit to the drug, EVK-001, versus placebo at all 41 of the sites that tested it nationally.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Since then, the San Diego company has built a thriving business as a contract research organization (CRO) that tests experimental drug compounds on bio-printed liver tissue. The company announced this week that it has developed a similar testing service for screening pre-clinical drug candidates on living human kidney tissue.

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Xconomy

JULY 15, 2016

Our San Diego editor Bruce Bigelow penned a personal goodbye to entrepreneur Larry Bock, who died last week of pancreatic cancer at the age of 56. The week started on a reflective note. And then the news flowed, from a fast reprieve for Juno Therapeutics to no mercy for Elizabeth Holmes. —In other Merck news, U.K.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Today, San Diego-based Metaplace (www.metaplace.com), which develops virtual world software, is announcing a funding round from Charles River Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, and high profile investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. none that feel like the blogging, free commenting, or even anything like Geocities.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

This is the right time for a new leader to take the reins and lead Biogen through its next stage of development, and I look forward to returning to the West coast to take on one more set of activities and spend more time with my family.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. I did programming for the career center at UC San Diego, trying to build programs for the career center.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2016

That’s because GE Healthcare, by tweaking its traditional MRI scanners, was capturing so much raw data on the heart that on-site hospital scanners and computers couldn’t assemble it into images that doctors could intuitively interpret. The company is inviting 3D medical imaging developers to work within the platform.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The Carlsbad, CA-based company has also developed software that it says can help healthcare providers and other organizations keep track of orthotic devices and bill patients for their use. For more than two decades, Breg has built and sold braces, splints, walking boots, and other devices designed to help rehabilitate injured patients.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

clinicaltrials.gov site have been completed without publishing results. 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. Since 2006, 45 percent of all trials registered on the U.S.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” The site features running commentary and visual diagrams on the idiosyncrasies of fatherhood, parenting missteps and his own adjustment to having children.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9 The arrival of techies has also had a profound effect on the rental market, brokers and real-estate developers say. Developers are scrambling to cater to the influx. Downtown San Diego Condos.

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