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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Good news always comes quickly, bad news takes time to simmer. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. I knew what this meant. If you never read it, please do.

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JANUARY 14, 2014

Tech news keeps proclaiming “phone calls are dead,” which is useful except that the data suggests the exact opposite. In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. I suppose I could have skipped the whole rest of the blog post and just posted that.

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Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

Plans for new incubators were announced in two different cities. We’ve got those stories, plus a spate of financings and deals, a legal feud, and other news below. The results give the company confidence it can expand its tests to screen for early cancer in high-risk people who are otherwise healthy.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

For more on that and the rest of the week’s news, fire up the roundup rockets. The agency advised women and their doctors not to use screening tests that claim to detect ovarian cancer. —One cancer screening test got positive news from a federal agency.

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AUGUST 21, 2011

We now know that the medium has changed the news industry leading to blogs, real-time reporting, integration of text and video, two-way discussions, stories surfaced based on what your friends are reading, etc. So here’s my news for you: People still want telephone calls!

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Xconomy

APRIL 20, 2018

The biggest news this week was in oncology, hands down. Merck showed that its immunotherapy pembrolizumab (Keytruda) might become a common option for many patients newly diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, but the bigger picture is that the field is moving fast.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

I spoke about the topic on Fox Business News yesterday in a great session with TechCrunch50 winner RedBeacon and will post it along with my other VC Videos when Fox puts it on their website. They have probably seen 4-5 new companies this week minimum. Plus, now they need to Tweet, use Facebook, attend conferences and keep a blog!

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MAY 13, 2018

In any event this is a “screening meeting” or as I’ve called on my graphics an “introduction” to the firm. This goes into the heart of my controversial blog post (coming soon! Come back to this blog over the next 2 weeks and I’ll explain. The first meeting is usually with 1–2 people within the VC firm.

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Xconomy

JUNE 17, 2016

Familiar biotech names—not necessarily familiar for the right reasons—made news this week in biotech. —News for a group of slumping East Coast biotechs: Christoph Westphal and former Genzyme CEO Henri Termeer both stepped down from the board of Cambridge-based Verastem (NASDAQ: VSTM ), whose shares are worth just over $1.30

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

He blogs at startup-marketing.com. Through Tech Coast Angels, he has screened in excess of four hundred start-up companies. Before founding CatchFree, Sean ran marketing at LogMeIn and Uproar from launch to NASDAQ IPO filings & helped bring Dropbox, Lookout, and Xobni to market in interim marketing leadership roles.

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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 apps can stream video, audio, news feeds, Twitter, Facebook, sell digital content, physical merchandise, and much more.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I have made many of my arguments in a blog post I wrote on The Innovator’s Dilemma , a concept that is critical for both innovators & incumbents to understand. We are entering the age of “second screen&# TV viewing. We are really still in the first inning of this trend but it is not being led by Hulu.

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JANUARY 2, 2021

So I have a few more posts to go and then I promise to stop filling up your screen with posts about me or about weight loss / health gain. It’s not written to be blog worthy, perfect prose or deep with insights. I try not to watch news at night, only either drama unrelated to today’s news or sports or I read.

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MARCH 11, 2016

It will be a follow on from my “App is Crap” or “Web Second, Mobile First” blog posts but in short, video, updated, digestible formats. Better than FB, Twitter or any news site. The starting screen every time is the camera. It really was the best place on the Internet to get a sense. So, too, Snapchat.

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