Xconomy

AUGUST 11, 2016

government has ambitious plans for a long-term health study with one million Americans, and one of the world’s most powerful tech companies has a big part to play, including the storage of all the data on its “cloud” servers. Vanderbilt had a head start stumping for it. It even has a price guide.).

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JANUARY 11, 2014

His quip to suggest this is all a slight-of-hand, trickery dreamed up by marketing b *s is quite clever if misguided. The father of “Growth Hacking” appears to be Sean Ellis who wrote this widely read post, “ Find a Growth Hacker for your Startup. Startup Advice' Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

When the masses start all running one way without questioning “why?&# – and when it defies any logic I can figure out in my head – I call bullshit. I pointed to several Economist articles I had read that mapped historical prices of real estate for 400 years and how on average property values grow at no more 1.5%

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Let me start with Professor Christensen’s definition: “An innovation that is disruptive allows a whole new population of consumers access to a product or service that was historically only accessible to consumers with a lot of money or a lot of skill.&#. Let’s start with the incumbents position in a market.

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MAY 13, 2018

If you truly believe that you, your company and your products are exceptional and your company will be valuable then you’re actually doing them a FAVOR by helping them invest in your startup. In my post “ Measure twice, cut once ” I’ve outlined how to plan before you start raising. Should You Start with Your “Safety Schools?”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. The start of marketing is figuring out a market need and a way to solve that need better than anybody else.

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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. I think it’s important for enterprise startups to layer in professional services into your revenue stream.

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JULY 23, 2013

I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. My starting salary was $27,000. I have published many of these PR Tips before. “But you’re in the business group!?!”

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Two “triple” combination regimens for CF , which are meant to expand the reach of its CF drugs, will begin Phase 2 trials by the end of the year, and two additional new CF drugs will start clinical testing in 2017. THIS WEEK IN DRUG PRICING…. —A coalition of investors pressed drug makers to justify price increases.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Last night I co-hosted a dinner at Soho House in Los Angeles with some of the most senior people in the media industry with executives from Disney, Fox, Warner, media agencies and many promising tech & media startup CEO’s. He studied the errors that other people had made and tried to improve on them. He was riveting.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but I realized I was thinking about the issue more from investor perspective and a very narrow topic of how to price the round. Good idea & plan: You must start with a good idea and a PowerPoint deck (my outline is here , scroll down mid way).

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Xconomy

MARCH 16, 2018

Drug prices are top of mind for many patients. Some of them have to cut back on basic needs just to pay for treatments that seem to rise in price each year. The Tarrytown, NY, drugmaker plans to cut the price of its cholesterol-lowering drug alirocumab (Praluent) if it can get concessions from payers.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. CTR meaning for every 1,000 ads that are served up only 2 people click on them. So people will spend money online to get you to sign up for credit cards or Netflix but not to change your laundry detergent. Banner Ads. Holy Shiitake !

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Drug company stocks got a boost with the defeat of Hillary Clinton, a vocal critic of drug prices. Will he take a softer stance on drug prices? The Trump transition team posted an outline of their healthcare agenda Thursday, but so much is up in the air. Here’s what we know: There’s news to round up.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Bootstrapping: Score PR for Your Start-Up, On the Cheap. Publicity and positive word-of-mouth can help grow your start-up into a successful venture. Bootstrapping bootstrap, Profitability, Startup.

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Xconomy

APRIL 6, 2018

We’ll start this week with biotech deals, one featuring a couple of CAR-T heavyweights who have re-emerged after selling Kite Pharma for $12 billion. The FDA didn’t smile upon a big submission of depression studies from Alkermes, while those fighting liver disease got a mixed slate of data as a big medical conference looms.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Brad is also the Co-Founder of TechStars , an acclaimed startup boot camp which has spawned a number of promising companies. 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. There were a couple motivations.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

We set our sites on our IPO price and then worked back to our current valuation and showed potential employees what we thought they could earn (with all legal caveats) if the company was successful. I’ve said versions of it on this blog before so I hope it’s not too repetitive. I think you will. I think you will.

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Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

—Meanwhile, check out reports here , here , and here for some of the other headlines coming out of ASCO, including progress made in cancer immunotherapy, the ups and downs from various presenting companies, and a visit from Vice President Joe Biden. The new prices don’t reflect rebates and discounts.

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Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

But the company said this week that sales of Sovaldi and Harvoni, which share a common ingredient, sofosbuvir, have slowed with fewer patients starting on the drugs and prices undercut by fierce competition from AbbVie and Merck. How about we start a pool? —Let’s start with clinical data.

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Xconomy

JULY 8, 2016

This week started with celebrations of America’s birthday, and it has been dominated—biotech-wise—by America’s government. Drugs to treat hepatitis C have made huge leaps in effectiveness, providing cures where none previously existed, but also controversial leaps in price.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

Kyle: How did you get started in the entrepreneur world? Andrea: At May Company, they sold me on the buying career path by saying it was like owning your own business without having to raise start-up capital. Since then I’ve only worked at start-ups and small business enterprises. That was half-true.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 31, 2018

Before you head out for the final summer getaway, catch up on the week’s headlines. Pfizer upped the ante in the field of transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) treatment, where competition to treat the rare disease has grown increasingly complex. ATTR UPDATES —To start the week, Pfizer (NYSE: PFE ) released.

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Xconomy

JUNE 21, 2019

The announcement comes less than a month after Boulder, CO-based Array announced positive data from a pivotal study of its combination drug in colorectal cancer. Cancer remains one of the hottest areas for pharma deals and this week saw a big one: Pfizer’s proposed $11.4 billion buyout of Array Biopharma.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

We caught up with Sam Rogoway , the firm's CEO--and the former founder of TripUp, which is now part of Kayak--to hear about how the firm is hoping to revolutionize the local business video market with its services, which just launched last month. What we want to do is bring very good videos to businesses, at a very affordable price.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

In the technology world there are a few websites that most startups track to keep up with the latest financings, acquisitions, product announcements and gossip: BusinessInsider, TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOm, etc. A recent study said seed stage valuations have been quite static recently. Minutes 11-13.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Once the Ball Starts Bouncing, You Never Know Where It Will Stop. The entrepreneurial student then had a couple hundred of the maps printed, framed a few dozen, and set up shop in front of the business school. For more discussion of entrepreneurial pricing, see “At What Price?”. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The Obama administration wants to speed up cancer research with its “Cancer Moonshot” program—packing 10 years’ worth of work on prevention and treatment programs into five is one of its rallying cries. X : The report starts by recommending a national cancer patient network. There are policy issues.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 24, 2012

TechZulu had a chance to catch up with Levi and ask him some questions. The Digital Detox is a tech-free personal wellness retreat where attendees give up their smart-phones and gadgets in exchange for serenity and bliss. How did The Digital Detox get started? You have many prices? What is The Digital Detox?

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Just last month, a startup Tsien cofounded announced a round of funding to push ahead with a fluorescent technology that aims to help surgeons cut out tumors without removing healthy tissue. —Healthcare giant Novartis (NYSE: NOV ) is breaking up its cell and gene therapy R&D group , laying off roughly 30 percent of staff. .

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Our presidential candidates were either recovering from pneumonia or talking up their health records. New documents came to light that showed the sugar industry paid for studies downplaying the ties between sugar and heart disease. Let’s get right to it. Aerie took advantage of the stock bump by filing to raise $50 million.

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MAY 25, 2013

It’s true this was much bigger in the dot com era but I’ve studied the data and know that over the past decade these numbers are right. But Mark, many of the great firms are $500 million and up! When it went to raise its fund 10 years ago the rumor was that many LPs were disappointed with recent returns and did not re-up.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 19, 2016

Everyone is waiting until 2017, when huge studies of the drugs’ ability to prevent heart attacks and strokes start to provide data. . —The FDA last summer approved two new cholesterol fighting drugs known as PCSK9 inhibitors, but so far the market has rejected them, resulting in paltry sales.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 25, 2019

After guiding the CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing startup from scientific breakthrough toward the development of a potential cutting-edge medicine, slogging victoriously through a legendary patent fight , and reaching the cusp of an historic clinical trial , the well-traveled Bosley is cutting out, the company said Tuesday.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

” One of her most recent projects was a biotech startup in concert with industry veteran Tony Coles (pictured with Lindquist, above). The Mayo Clinic cardiologist behind the report published a study earlier this year about long QT misdiagnosis leading to improper defibrillator implants. DRUG PROBLEMS.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research founding director Tyler Jacks has spent decades making important contributions in cancer research, but until forming Cambridge, MA-based Dragonfly Therapeutics, he’d never spun a startup out of his own lab at MIT. In the U.S.,

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

No one wakes up and says to themselves, “I need to buy that product I have never heard of before.” Affiliates invest the up-front marketing expenses required to attract customers. Ideally, such ads should clearly articulate the value proposition including the price. Unattributed – There is no such thing as organic customers.

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