Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

It will affect your ability to get the right jobs and promotions as well as your ability to attract talent and capital. I was graduated with a double degree in economics & political science from UCSD in 1991. My colleagues that graduated with engineering degrees from UCSD were paid $31,000 – 15% more.

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Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2021

This is Venture Capital. You’ll find engineers out of MIT, Stanford, Harvard, UCSD, Caltech or execs out of UCLA, Spelman, NYU, etc. In our funds we do about 12 deals / year and see several thousand so the funding rate is somewhere between 0.2–0.5% of deals we evaluate depending on how you count what constitutes “evaluating a deal.”

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Tortuga Logic , a new startup focused on chip-level cybersecurity technology whose founders include professors from UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara, has raised $2M in a seed funding, the company disclosed on Thursday. The seed funding came from Eclipse Ventures.

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Software Review UCSD Santa Barbara Seed Funding 124

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2011

If you’re in LA and looking for somebody to do project-based marketing jobs – Jacqui’s your lady (not to mention a fellow UCSD alum!). I wanted to be whimsical and have a blog as cool as Spark Capital. She was both patient (as dealing with me requires) and persistent (the same). Anything that works well was her implementation.

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UCSD Invest Startup Design 260

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

I was at an alumni dinner at UCSD (I am on the alumni board) and a group of people were talking about how their kids use UberX to get rides home from parties at night. They seemed a little excessive in trying to make it hard for their competitors to raise capital. I was at the first pitch meeting they ever did to raise capital.

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Press Journal Startup Training 418

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2015

GrollTex was founded by UCSD graduate student Aliaksandr (Alex) Zaretski (pictured), who won the UC San Diego Entrepreneurship Challenge with the technology. GrollTex's technology is based on mass producing graphene, which is a material being aimed at use in such things as water desalination membranes and flexible electronics.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

Two people associated with Southern California's high tech investment and startup industry have been named as part of the far reaching investigation into a college admissions scandal , which named Hollywood actresses, CEOs, coaches at USC, UCLA, and UCSD, as well as many others. According to a complaint filed by the U.S.

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USC UCLA Southern California Invest 113

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I then worked in a computer store called Software Centre in high school and college (UCSD). He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading.

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Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

Xconomy

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Liver disease is challenging for doctors because it can develop without symptoms, making diagnosis difficult without removing cells for examination. For these reasons, fatty liver disease is often called a “silent disease,” says Ariel Feldstein, a gastroenterologist at the University of California San Diego.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I recently spoke at the business school at UCSD. But seriously her book is spot on. Know your audience - I always try to find out something about the audience before I present. Before the event I wanted to find out what I could about the students. I found out that they were older than most typical MBA programs.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

The funding came from Lux Capital and ARCH Venture Partners,a long with futurist Ray Kurzweil and blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayor. La Jolla-based Aira.IO , a developer of software tools which use Google Glass to help the blind and low-vision individuals, has raised $790,000 in a seed funding round, the company said this morning.

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Seed Funding Google Funding Tool 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Most prefer not to say this publicly for two reasons: 1) they have an entire portfolio of startups, many of whom are raising capital and 2) they prefer not to be attacked publicly or seem “anti entrepreneur.” Many experienced partners are funds have 7-10 boards and most of these will need more capital. This is how VCs feel.

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Startup Company Companies Venture Capital 150

Xconomy

JULY 8, 2020

Dave Johnson has known UC San Diego physician and cancer reseacher Thomas Kipps for nearly 20 years.

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San Diego Develop Development UCSD 121

socalTECH

MARCH 23, 2021

The San Diego Angel Conference, an angel investing effort which is run by the University of San Diego (USD) School of Business, says it has made investments in five companies at its conference this year, worth a total of $500,000.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Scientists, no matter how sexy the research they’re conducting, aren’t immune from the administrative minutiae of office life. Such tasks steal time away from researchers’ main objectives. However, that wasn’t the problem San Diego startup LabFellows was looking to solve when it launched in 2014.

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San Diego Research Startup Help 112

Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2019

Biosensor startup Biolinq said Thursday it has raised $4.75 million from new investors, including the New York-based Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, following the results of a clinical study of its experimental biomarker monitoring device.

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San Diego Study Research Design 103

Xconomy

JANUARY 6, 2020

In the past seven years BioIntervene has been working to develop “ultra-selective” compounds to target an adenosine receptor associated with pain relief. Now the San Diego-based biotech has $30 million and a chief scientific officer, Charles Cohen, to guide its lead compound, BIO-205, into human testing for neuropathic pain.

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San Diego Guide Activity Develop 97

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

The venture capital firm that bears his name. I had a public education all the way through college and my under grad – UCSD – actually cost less than $2,000 per year to attend between 1986-1991. My second thought was that his letter was aloof and tone deaf like Mitt Romney’s “47% dead-enders” rant.

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Education Venture Capital UCSD Class 417

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I’m a huge proponent of a university education (in fact, I’m on the alumni board for my alma mater, UCSD ), but I don’t think it’s for everybody, I don’t think every degree is practical and I don’t think we’re graduating enough software developers and designers. I plan to use Treehouse myself.

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Invest Carson Technical Review Education 295

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

“Imagine you were a Phd wireless chip designer out of UCSD and then Qualcomm. What results must you have in order to raise venture capital or garner good press coverage that helps drive customer acquisition (and also more funding!)? You want somebody who can do handset deals in the US, Europe & Asia. ON SUCCESS.

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CTO Hire Technical Review Startup Demand 363

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. Los Angeles offers a great deal, both in terms of business opportunities and lifestyle awesomeness.

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