SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2018

Since I know not everybody reads Twitter I thought I’d collect them here in a blog post. Hire when it feels like you're bursting at the seems or missing a critical skill on existing team or have figured out how to scale growth  —  @msuster 6/ Raising capital at very high prices helps avoid short-term dilution.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 18, 2017

Tom Price, the man who could oversee an overhaul of the U.S. Price, an orthopedic surgeon by training, is President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary. [Note: This report was co-authored by deputy biotech editor Ben Fidler.]

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

If a medical meeting in Barcelona this week was any indication, more help could be on the way. For decades, advanced lung cancer was a quick death sentence. That’s no longer a given, thanks in part to the arrival of immunotherapy.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The firm, which is headed by Sam Rogoway, said it is looking to help local businesses communicate their brands through online video. According to Near Networks, it will help connect local businesses with filmmakers, to create YouTube videos, embed video channels on their website or blogs, and to share their videos via social networks.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2014

Pricing details on Demand Media''s expanded offerings were not announced. READ MORE>>. demand media content marketing advertising experian infographics'

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Xconomy

JULY 6, 2018

Some of our favorite stories of his sprang from that breadth of knowledge, like his feature on the use of blockchain to help people share genomic data for public benefit, or his profile of the Iraqi immigrant and biotech CEO who had complicated feelings about the Trump travel ban.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. I was thinking back to a few previous “insider baseball&# blog debates that raged for several weeks: AngelGate (aka Bin38 secret cabal), convertible debt vs. equity, bubble vs. not, and now the AngelList discussion.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Lockboxer is a inventory and pricing service for your possessions. You can read my thoughts about their service on their blog. Lockboxer aims to help people with a lot of the problems they have around managing their stuff. I was recently tested a new service called Lockboxer. Most services start as a solution to a problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

Seth Levine of Foundry Group addresses this important topic this morning on his blog with a post, “ Has Convertible Debt Won ?&# I’ve written about the topic of convertible debt at length before specifically about how angels & entrepreneurs should think about pricing. a priced/valued preferred stock financing)?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

What price? I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. Before I tell you the reasons I’m concerned about investment banking intros, I should start by saying I think bankers are enormously helpful for entrepreneurs in raising money. What stage? I attended events.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 21, 2018

It’s beginning to look a lot like, well, the last roundup of the year, with plenty of news to pack in before our holiday breather.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

On my blog I’ve been hesitant to take the topic head on. But last week I noticed a blog post by a woman, Tara Tiger Brown, that asked the question, “ Why Aren’t More Women Commenting on VC Blog Posts? In it she observes that only 3% of the comments on this blog are from women.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2009

Carlsbad-based Adjix announced this morning that the firm is looking to help users monetize the popular Twitter micro-blogging service. According to Adjix, it will allow advertisers to set prices, target specific cities, limit who can run their twitter ads, and collect data on clicks. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2015

I’m so tired of seeing young entrepreneurs get screwed by their angel investors on convertible notes and I know I can’t convince you not to do it so I’d like to offer one simple bit of advice to help you avoid getting screwed (at least on one part of your note). If you raise at a lower price they will own more than 9%.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

Everybody has a blog these days and there is much advice to be had. Of course triangulation is a mathematics term that is used in sailing and other activities to help you better navigate when you don’t have your bearings. The most helpful type of advice in my mind are frameworks for how to solve a problem. For example: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

What price? I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. Before I tell you my reasons for never doing a deal that a banker intro’d I have to preface by where I think bankers are enormously helpful on VC deals. What kind of deals should I be doing? What stage?

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2018

“ We coordinate the freight, we pay the truckers, we help optimize the fleets,” says Shipwell president and co-founder, Jason Traff. . ” It hasn’t been a straight road for Traff and his co-founder Gregory Price. When he sold that business he moved back to the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

When I first read Paul Graham’s blog post on “High Resolution&# Financing I read it as a treatise arguing that convertible notes are better than equity. As I’m generally a believer in ‘pricing rounds’ I initially didn’t agree with the premise of the post. Photo credit: D. rings true to me.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2018

Two imminent FDA rulings on two separate drugs aren’t just noteworthy for the patients they’ll help, but the long and winding road their developers have taken to get to this point. First is Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, which has spent 16 years and over $2 billion to try to bring an unproven form of medicine, RNA interference (RNAi), to market.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

. ” Sean is somebody widely respected in Silicon Valley (although he now lives in SoCal) for having helped many early-stage companies go through major growth periods by quantitatively testing features with audiences to help diagnose what led to growth. Well, you have to do that, too. I endorse the growth hacking culture on teams.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 19, 2021

Abodu , one of a slew of startup companies pitching backyard homes and office spaces to Californians in an effort to help address the state’s housing shortage, has instituted a new “Quickship” program that can take an order from contract to construction and installation in about 30 days. The interior of an Abodu home.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 28, 2016

THIS WEEK IN DRUG PRICING…. —A coalition of investors pressed drug makers to justify price increases. The group filed shareholder resolutions with 11 companies and cited a Kaiser Family Foundation poll that cited Americans’ concerns over drug prices. Here’s more from Forbes. DEALS AND FUNDINGS.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2010

Let’s face it, if people want to blog as a career they have to be able to make money. By embracing high-quality in-stream ads Twitter will help foster its own ecosystem of publishers and advertisers. We share the goal of helping Twitter to maintain a quality platform. This is good for Twitter as well. While Ad.ly

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

You must use self-promotion early and often through viral videos, blogging, and industry leadership, to establish credibility with your customers. Dig deep to get beyond the best price or best service, to find a higher cause or unique benefit that they can remember and be happy to advocate.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Veracyte (NASDAQ: VCYT ) reported that the largest of the four Medicare administrators has given a tentative thumbs-up to covering Percepta , Veracyte’s test to help determine the likelihood that a suspicious lung nodule is cancerous. . —One cancer screening test got positive news from a federal agency.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. It pains me to see the typical (and predictable) responses on Twitter, “VCs want prices to drop!” ” “Sure, prices are dropping.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I began our discussion by asking Brad what motivated him to co-author Venture Deals , rather than continuing to share venture capitalists’ secrets via his Ask The VC blog. Writing a book is very different from writing a blog. In my review of the book, my biggest concern was the rather elevated list price of $49.95.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 31, 2017

Novartis said Wednesday that it would not charge for its newly approved cellular immunotherapy, tisagenlecleucel (Kymriah)—the first so-called CAR-T product to ever come to market—if it fails to help patients within a month. The no-charge promise didn’t assuage critics of the price.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2021

Today your reputation online is more important than your price, service, or location. You can remove items from your article or blog, but people do notice, and may escalate their concerns on another forum. They can help you to remove emotion. Consider bringing in reputation experts to help.

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Xconomy

MAY 17, 2019

During his tenure as FDA commissioner, Scott Gottlieb often spoke about generics as a market force that could help tame climbing drug prices. Generic drugs are supposed to give consumers more choices and a counterweight to more costly branded medications. But such tools only work when companies play fair.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

Of course, there is a plethora of “experts” emerging out there, who are anxious to lead you down that path, for a large price. by an expert and friend in this space, Arnie Kuenn, who offers guidance and examples on new and modern approaches for the rest of us: Build a blog. Search engines and people love blogs these days.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran on Business Insider and has generated much Twitter chatter. They’re active, helpful and wise. This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2021

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. Local business price points have to be low. Maybe it’s selling local tours and taking a cut of the revenue.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. In addition to helping manage the board Chris also helps represent the interests of the angel investors / common stock holders. Email updates frequently.

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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. help you integrate your product with other systems making it harder for your product to be replaced by competitors.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

So I wondered out loud with the president if the government wanted to encourage more entrepreneurship — was there a way to help promote more of a culture accepting of failure? I find it distracting that when you click on a link you’re taken away from the main blog and need to hit the back button to remember to finish the article.

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