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Shoreline Biosciences Finds $140M

socalTECH

The funding was led by Ally Bridge Group, and also included new investors Eventide Asset Management, BeiGene, Irving Investors, Kingdon, NS Investment, Piper Heartland Healthcare Capital, and Superstring, along with current investors Boxer Capital, BVF Partners, L.P.,

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New Bootstrap Fund Pulls Itself Up in World of Health IT Deals

Xconomy

They came to San Diego in 1996, when Scripps Health hired Balgrosky as CIO and senior vice president. She was previously the CIO for Holy Cross Health System in South Bend, IN, a 13-hospital chain where she was responsible for strategic IT planning from Maryland to California. He founded MaxIT Healthcare in 2001. Jean Balgrosky.

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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CIOs are wondering if they should jump in, wait for production, or wait for things to mature. That allow enterprise CIOs to jump into OpenStack head first. What is pushing those CIOs to consider private clouds? There''s a big drive to help get the enterprise away from that, and towards open solutions.

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10 Job Titles Never Found in an Investable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. Unless your business is a religion, I don’t recommend it for a startup these days. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). Chief Information Officer.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). What's the theme of your investments? That's why we have investments in Heal, Saucey, and FragMob.

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Interview with David Loo, CEO and Founder of Perspectium

socalTECH

For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. That's how we started. What specific problem were you seeing?

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

Home of JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), which helps put rockets into space. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. ReachLocal, founded by Zorik Gordon, publicly traded company helping small businesses across America use the Internet for marketing [Woodland Hills. Andreessen Horowitz – Ok.

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