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Interview with Eugene Cho, Echo Laboratories

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Eugene Cho is CEO of San Diego-based Echo Laboratories (www.discover-echo.com), a startup which is developing a new kind of microscope. One, is an upright, traditional looking microscopes, where you look at glass slides. So we had to raise capital to meet orders. There are typically two types of microscopes.

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Interview with Eugene Cho, Echo

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Eugene Cho is CEO of San Diego-based Echo (www.discover-echo.com), a startup which is developing a new kind of microscope. One, is an upright, traditional looking microscopes, where you look at glass slides. We got first place in that competition, and they followed up with a $2M investment in the form of a convertible note.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). I don’t plan to write the authoritative venture capital blog, just some anecdotes. Thus is venture capital.

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Bio Roundup: Jenkins Gets Mad, Bernie Gets His Pen, CRISPR IPO & J-Lo

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—The hepatitis C drug telaprevir (Incivek) from Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: VRTX ) was once the fastest drug launch in history before competition wiped it off the map in three years. His slides are here. Wait til you get a load of this week’s roundup. TOP STORIES. THE REGULATORS’ THUMBS GO UP AND DOWN.