Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

Understanding “The Funding Angle” I sit at enough board meetings to hear conflicting advice given to entrepreneurs about how to handle PR and announcements at startups. But first you need to know about Reg D filings. I will add to this as I write more in the coming weeks on the topic.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

In this article you’ll discover how to start a blog that makes money. There are four types of blogs; written blogs, video blogs, photo blogs and a combination of these. We’ll primarily be discussing written blogs. There are two different components to make money blogging. Let’s discuss. Not really.

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Xconomy

MAY 8, 2017

Called Dell Technologies Capital, the investment arm plans to provide funding to about 20 startups this year, Scott Darling, president of group, told Bloomberg , which first reported the news this morning.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

When I first started writing this blog several years ago I had less followers than you have right now. But the realist in me knew I couldn’t write daily nor could I convince you to think to check out my blog with regularity. Sometimes I just scan and other times it serves as a launching-off point for me to digest the daily news.

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Xconomy

APRIL 18, 2018

The big headlines from the American Association for Cancer Research meeting in Chicago were all about the battle over the latest lung cancer data , and for good reason. Here’s a sample of other cancer news blowing in the Windy City and beyond this week. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Or more directly – they are likely narcissistic resuscitations of your newest features or bragging points that nobody but your marketing team and your mom care about. But mostly they’re thinking, “Will my audience even care about this topic?” Think about Luma Partners. I am a VC. I hand out money.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

As top lawyers from Facebook, Google, and Twitter testify on Capitol Hill this week about Russians using their platforms to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, it’s becoming clearer that the fight against the spread of fake news won’t be won by humans alone. research.

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Xconomy

APRIL 26, 2019

The road to every new drug approval is littered with the remains of earlier failures. Biopharmaceutical companies don’t like to talk about the failures. But it’s earnings season now, so some of them don’t have much choice.

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Tech.Co

JULY 29, 2020

The change will affect “nearly all” of Google’s 200,000 employees, including contractors and full-time workers, according to The Wall Street Journal , which first reported the news. In a blog post in May, Google announced it would begin reopening its offices from early July this year. Remote Working: What Is Twitter Doing?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Right now the most important role to hire in Twitter would be a seasoned marketing professional who could proactively change the conversation about Twitter and educate people about its significance as an information sharing tool. They need a stronger campaign about consumption rather than sending Tweets.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

One of the most frequent questions entrepreneurs ask about when they raise a little bit of money or are getting close to launching their first product is whether they should hire a PR firm. I wrote about how to build relationships with journalists in this post. What is said about you publicly matters. There is one carve out.

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Xconomy

JUNE 14, 2019

The US Federal Trade Commission wants yet more information about the buyout, and overseas, the UK Competition and Markets Authority opened a separate investigation. This past week, antitrust regulators once again delayed Roche’s planned $4.8 billion buyout of gene therapy developer Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ONCE ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2022

In my experience, the good news is that everyone is becoming more and more comfortable with relationships via the new media and technology. The bad news is that I still find a lot of you who don’t use these tools effectively, or haven’t learned the rules for nurturing remote relationships.

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Xconomy

MARCH 29, 2019

We’ll kick off this week’s roundup with the aducanumab reaction, which includes plenty of thoughts about the future of the so-called “amyloid hypothesis” and what’s next for another Biogen Alzheimer’s drug that has had mixed results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2022

This is media exposure from a neutral third-party, such as an unpaid news story on your product or service to highlight innovations or social value. This includes your website, blog, and presence on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and many more. Earned media. Owned media.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about The Silent Benefits of PR in which I pointed out that most young companies I encounter don’t fully grasp the benefits of PR because they are less measurable than product milestones or customer acquisition analyses (like CAC/LTV). I wrote about how to build relationships with journalists in this post.

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2015

In a blog post, Stocktwits said it will use the funding to help it grow even faster. Stocktwits offers up a Twitter-like platform to trade stock tips and discussions, all linked to public company trading symbols, along with tools to help public companies with getting news out about their companies. funding round. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

For one new kind of cholesterol drug, insurers and their agents have tried the “just say no” strategy: refusing to pay what they deem high prices until the drug makers produce broad (and expensive) evidence that the drugs save lives. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Guardian News & Media , the firm behind web publisher ContentNext , is in discussions with potential buyers about a possible sale, according to a report from the firm's own site, paidContent. Ali had founded the blog after he lost a job immediately after September 11th. Names of potential buyers were not discussed.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2016

And I’m going to cross post this entire post on Facebook as an experiment rather than just posting a link on FB and trying to drive people to my blog. So if you’re reading this on Facebook (or on my blog!) Twitter was my public chat board, my place to share blog content, my place to ask public questions and to debate.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. 10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. 5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California. blog comments powered by Disqus.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2010

According to the two, they have released Team RadioShack, a free mobile iPhone app which allows users to get information about Lance Armstrong and Team RadioShack. The firms said the iPhone app will give users instant access to updates and news, exclusive content and photos, video blogs from Lance Armstrong, and more.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 5, 2010

has 6 major new features that have been added to make getting news on the go a convenient, safe and customizable experience. The new product allows users to create: Playlists – Create a top 20 blogs from the 1,600+ sources. BuzzVoice Lite is free and gives you top celebrity news from around the Internet.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

I say “struggle to overcome&# because I care about young people entering our industry with a set of realistic expectations about what “normal&# is. I was thinking about all of this as I looked at the logs from my WordPress blog this evening. I started blogging 2 years ago. It’s marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2013

I miss blogging because it serves as a great repository for me of my current thinking, as a way of organizing my thoughts and clarifying what I think and as a conversation started with so many of you (as Hunter Walk elegantly said, “Blog not to show how smart you are, but in the hope of soliciting feedback from smart people.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

We caught up with Mark Suster , one of Upfront''s General Partners and a well known blogger and technology personality, the new fund, and how his blogging is now driving the firm''s investment activity. Tell us about the new fund? Obviously, we feel great about that. Mark Suster: It''s a $200M fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

He started the call by telling me he had exciting news. He was about to be featured in a major US news magazine as one of their “hot&# picks. A positive news story means NOTHING about the core performance of your business. When I read an article about you I’m influenced. PR is subtle.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

We’ve recently launched a video series called T3:Today’s Tech Trends to further support our shows by adding a video component that can be shared directly from YouTube, our blog or embedded in the radio show website, blog or any other website/blog willing to carry the free content. The Make It Work Mini Cooper Fleet.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 9, 2009

Thursday, August 13, 2009 -- Entertainment News Goes Social Panel. Extra extra read all about it! Join us for our panel discussion on how industry news sources are using online, especially social media, to report entertainment news. Digital LA. online, your iPhone, Blackberry, tweets, etc! See [link] (more).

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 19, 2013

He bangs out about five posts a day and dispatches over 20 tweets from Business Insider’s thirteenth floor Park Avenue South office. The stories are punchy and up to the minute taking advantage of the 24/7 news cycle, linking to other breaking news and churning the stories for BI’s own benefit in a in a fleshed out “re-tweet” fashion.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

As noted in Hacking Hacker News , the company previously dominated the mindshare of the web development community by facilitating the spread of a random posting on Hacker News. Similar to their prior guerilla-marketing stunt, their April Fool''s Day posting topped Hacker News. We didn''t ask people to tweet it, they just did.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Hand-picked blogs representing tremendous different areas of content. With over 3 million blogs articles from over 500 categories. Also, Finding quality blogs can be a bit tricky when there are about 60 million online blogs to look through. When you first open the app your placed in the popular news section.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

For more on Tsien and the rest of the week’s news, let’s get to the roundup. —Zika Plans: Last month Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, rebuffing questions about the company’s year of troubles, described a new “MiniLab” blood diagnostic system that would include Zika virus detection.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 14, 2016

That means in three months, Bristol has lost a third of its value, equivalent to about $40 billion in market capitalization. One failed clinical trial has left rival Merck in the lead position to have what could be part of the new standard of care for lung cancer. . AND IN OTHER NEWS…. Today, shares are worth just over $50.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 19, 2013

He bangs out about five posts a day and dispatches over 20 tweets from Business Insider’s thirteenth floor Park Avenue South office. The stories are punchy and up to the minute taking advantage of the 24/7 news cycle, linking to other breaking news and churning the stories for BI’s own benefit in a in a fleshed out “re-tweet” fashion.

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2012

For today's Insights and Opinions section, where we feature contributions, opinions, and editorials from members of the Southern California technology community, we have an advice piece from venture capital veteran Jon Funk , who gives five things entrepreneurs ought to think about before raising capital.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Here’s a quick roundup of the major news. The first news of nivolumab’s Phase 3 failure in these first-line patients came in August and eliminated billions of dollars from Bristol’s market value. The results, as Bloomberg noted here , underwhelmed investors, who sent Clovis shares down about 20 percent.

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