Xconomy

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The San Diego-based biotech set a preliminary $100 million target for its IPO in documents filed with securities regulators Friday. That figure will change as the company determines how many shares it will sell and at what price. Cibus has applied for a listing on the Nasdaq exchange under the stock symbol “CBUS.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

Didn’t discuss much but I love the online document collaboration area that Box.net serves including players like Dropbox, Drop.io, DocStoc, Scribed and SlideShare. Also in the video: - Is it a good idea for VC’s to pay stratospheric prices? - My blog and what it’s done for my deal flow. - IPO market is back.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

There was talk of tackling high drug prices in the budget document, but nothing to give Medicare direct negotiating power with drug companies or allow importation of cheaper drugs from other countries—ideas Trump has embraced on occasion.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

I tell people that they need to blog about their industry to drive customers and not blog to their egos to drive their peer group to their blogs. You can catch ordinary waves like everybody else and pay the same prices, compete for the same limited user groups and slug it out for attention. Well, you have to do that, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

I recently wrote a blog post in which I pointed out that many investors & advisors discourage enterprise startups from having a professional services (PS) business and I think this is a big mistake. This might mean helping customers buy traffic, arb’ing deals, helping with RTB pricing or trading, etc.

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Xconomy

JULY 20, 2016

Gene therapy’s multi-decade roller-coaster ride has been well documented, in Xconomy and elsewhere. Audentes will begin trading on the Nasdaq today under the symbol “BOLD,” a nod to its name, which is derived from the Latin term for “one who has courage or boldness.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there. In my experience, the key steps I look for always include the following: Testing the idea against customers who have money to spend.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Brad and Jason have been exposing venture capitalists’ secrets since 2005, when they began writing a blog series on Term Sheets at AskTheVC. Examples – The book is filled with text excerpted from actual funding documents, rather than the generic templates usually found in academic textbooks. Price – I am cheapskate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Paul discussed his perspective having been at SAP Ventures. Real-time search engine.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

With the first test looming, the entrepreneurial student borrowed notes from three rather scholarly students, consolidated them into a single document and sold copies to other students for $5 each. For more discussion of entrepreneurial pricing, see “At What Price?”. Copyright © 2007-9 by J.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

It's a very linear process, and allows them to capture knowledge and link to centralized resources that relate to a topic, including documents, pictures, files, video. Can you talk about the pricing and how the business model works? We call this a "Genie," and you can build a Genie using Knowledge Genie.

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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. Our presidential candidates were either recovering from pneumonia or talking up their health records.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Here are some tips which will signal traction and fundability to investors, as well as to your team: Document your business plan. It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Talk and time are cheap, but they need to understand that investors judge past results as a good indicator of future expectations.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Its owner Pfizer (NYSE: PFE ) shelved it this week , citing poor Phase 3 data and pricing pressures on the two approved PCSK9 drugs. . —The new wave of so-called PCSK9 drugs to treat high cholesterol, once expected to flood the market , have barely caused a ripple. One latecomer, bococizumab, won’t even reach approval.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

Here are some tips which will signal traction and fundability to investors, as well as to your team: Document your business plan. It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Talk and time are cheap, but they need to understand that investors judge past results as a good indicator of future expectations.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). Forget to get around to setting up that Employee Stock Option Plan and want to be able to give the early guys their options at a low strike price?

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Another biopharma executive went before Congress to explain drug price hikes. But documents released by the FDA showed that eteplirsen was only approved after Janet Woodcock, the FDA’s top drug evaluator, went against the recommendations of outside experts and the agency’s own scientists and reviewers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

Here are some tips which will signal traction and fundability to investors, as well as to your team: Document your business plan. It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Talk and time are cheap, but they need to understand that investors judge past results as a good indicator of future expectations.

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

The type of sites that might link into you are blogs, traditional press online, forums or bulleting boards, or content rich sites that are focused on a similar topic. Create a target list of blogs that could cover your product or content. You can search Technorati to find the most popular blogs on the web across various categories.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

Here are some tips which will signal traction to investors, as well as your team: Document your business plan. It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Talk and time are cheap, but they need to understand that investors judge past results as a good indicator of future expectations.

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

. • Music – enable a dead simple player on band and profile pages that lets users upload their songs and have them purchased for any price they set. Artwork/Content – let users upload and share virtually any digital content including artwork and documents that they can promote and sell. Movies – no website has more Hollywood DNA.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Purpose of an MVP and Defining the Right MVP I've really not talked as much about this in my blog even though its hugely important. Here is the outline of the talk and some links from prior posts that talk to the issues that I discussed in the talk.

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Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! ► October (1) New Video! I have been outsourcing to India since before it became popular.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , January 10, 2010 Developing new startup ideas - Chris Dixon , March 14, 2010 Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images - Code as Craft , July 9, 2010 jQuery Plugin: Give Your Characters a NobleCount - The Product Guy , March 23, 2010 How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

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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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