Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures. The problem is that this is publicly available information that can and will be scanned by journalists and reported. When you file, you must be prepared.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

“[W]e are shifting our technology strategy to leverage external partners for parts of our platform that we’re currently maintaining internally,” Weiss wrote in the email announcing the layoffs to staff. The tech team layoffs are notable for a beauty retailer that has often described itself as a technology company.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Hollywood-based, music-related blog and content firm Buzznet has reportedly cut employees, according to a report from Digital Music News. According to the publication, citing a representative of the firm, Buzznet has eliminated 10 employees, from a total of 89 staff. This publication has not yet confirmed the cuts with the firm.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

It echoes the same message from Kik’s chief executive Tim Livingston last week when he rebuffed earlier reports that the company would shut down amid an ongoing battle with the U.S. In a post on Kik’s blog on Friday the MediaLab said that it has “finalized an agreement” to acquire Kik Messenger.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 7, 2016

—The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), whose drug-value analyses set the pharma industry’s teeth on edge , issued a new report on PD-1 inhibitors , part of the first wave of cancer immunotherapy drugs to be approved. . —The Nobel in Chemistry went to three scientists, in France, the Netherlands, and the U.S.,

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

But as Xconomy reported, details about the reorganization were scant, leaving open questions whether drug regulation actually needs to move faster. —Buzzfeed ran a lengthy report Wednesday on the sexual harassment charges against University of Washington vaccine researcher Michael Katze.

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Xconomy

MAY 22, 2017

Last week, the other shoe dropped with reports that Ford will cut 10 percent of its global hourly workforce while holding on to the tech talent it has recruited in the past few years to work on electric and self-driving cars. When Donald Trump heralded Ford’s announcement earlier this year that it would invest $1.2

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