Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Five years ago, the big tech incubator Y Combinator started to welcome life sciences companies into its sizable startup classes, which had previously nurtured entrepreneurs in information technology almost exclusively. That opening to biotech startups in 2014 was controversial at the time.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2023

To protect against such an event, almost every professional investor includes a clause in the investment documents which allow the investor to “put” the stock back to the company after five years, requiring the company to pay back the investment plus dividends accrued during the term of the investment.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 11, 2024

[Email readers, continue here…] Some board members find themselves debating whether there should be an expansion from five to seven, from seven to nine or more to allow for such a mixture of protective seats created by the investment documents and balance with outside board members. What about multiple investor rounds?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In my many years of experience in business, and recent work as a mentor to entrepreneurs, I have seen the business world change, and can relate well to his five success practices paraphrased here: Build the team from people with a shared obsession.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 4, 2022

Remember the five “W’s?”. In my early journalism classes, I was taught the five “W’s” of good news stories, and that most should be in the first paragraph at that. Who, what, when, where and why are the five, with sometimes a “how” thrown in for those followers of the macabre. Which of the five is most important for you?

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

This class of investor, once quite disorganized, has become much like the venture capital community, creating a process including due diligence (careful examination of a business before investment), terms of investment that match those of venture capitalists, and a process that sometimes takes months from introduction to investment.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 22, 2017

And the prime motivators of this massive destruction are the same class of entrepreneurs and innovators that have done it before. In 1995, thirty-five million people used the Internet. an estimated five million jobs will be lost to tech innovations in the next five years, with two million new jobs created in these fields alone.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 18, 2015

There are five basic kinds of internal risks than a business faces over time. Is there a market for your class of product at all? If you could predict a crisis within your business before its occurrence, wouldn’t you move to prevent or reduce its impact? That discussion is for a future time. Here are risks you can address.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

Five, Southern California firms are among companies who are splitting up $62M in government funding for the research, development, and demonstration of concentrating solar power systems, according to an announcement by the U.S. for a new class of solar concentrators; and Riverside-based Terrafore receiving up to $1.4M

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

A traffic jam of expensive cars lined up to pull into the packed parking lot of MuckerLab for its second graduating class demo day. Tech Coast Angel investor Dale Okuno came out because he believes that MuckerLab attracts better talent because they keep their class size small and focused. And build great business they have.

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socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2021

The two are launching with a ninth grade class. Portal says it is planning to open up seven additional sites in Los Angeles at corporate campuses over the next five years.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2018

San Diego-based lifesciences equipment maker Illumina says it has selected five companies to participate in its startup accelerator the Illumina Accelerator.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 27, 2020

By month’s end, five more are anticipated to join the class of 2020 initial public offerings—and four of those are in life sciences, according to IPO research firm Renaissance Capital. So far this year four privately held companies have made the transition to trading on the public markets.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 28, 2023

During the discussions with the CEO about hiring North American managers, he made it clear that he wanted us to find a first-class office facility from which to start the search process, and proceeded to name cities that attracted him. Five-year leases that seemed a bargain before COVID are most often albatrosses today.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 2, 2018

The five major niches. There are five major classes or niches a company should examine and make its own in calculating positioning in the marketplace. Where do you this you can excel within these five positioning alternatives? So, here comes the lesson and your challenge…. They are: Price. Innovation. Elegance.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 15, 2017

To protect against such an event, almost every professional investor includes a clause in the investment documents which allow the investor to “put” the stock back to the company after five years, requiring the company to pay back the investment plus dividends accrued during the term of the investment.

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2012

If the Los Angeles accelerator/incubator market is not yet crowded enough, Hollywood-based io/LA opened its doors over the weekend, looking to recruit a class of five to six companies in a three month mentorship program.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2020

Morken has spent the past thirty five years at technology companies and will be reporting directly to the company’s co-founder and chief executive, Rich Pierson. “We feel so lucky that the company is in a position to attract someone with the deep experience that CeCE has in scaling world-class organizations.”

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2017

Pasadena-based 3D printer manufacturer New Matter announced this morning that it is donating five of its MOD-t 3D printers to a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education organization program in Downey, called the Challenger Center. The center says it is just down the road from such companies as Virgin Orbit and SpaceX.

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Xconomy

JULY 24, 2017

San Diego’s Effector Therapeutics, a five-year-old cancer drug developer, has raised $38.6 million in new venture capital funding. The Series C financing, led by Pfizer Venture Investments, brings total funding for Effector to about $150 million, CEO Steve Worland said late Monday.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

One distinct element of the service is USPS Connect Local Mail, which offers affordable First-Class mail, with documents capped at 13 ounces. for a package under five pounds, and steadily rise based on weight. Businesses are already able to get free flat-rate bags, boxes, and envelopes through another postal service, Click-N-Ship.

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Berkonomics

JULY 7, 2016

In my early journalism classes, I was taught the five “W’s” of good news stories, and that most should be in the first paragraph at that. Who, what, when, where and why are the five, with sometimes a “how” thrown in for those followers of the macabre.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

There is no perfect answer to the competitive advantage question, but investors are looking for how your offering will keep ahead of competition, not just at this moment, but throughout the life of their three to five-year investment. Highlight your world-class team as the secret sauce. Facebook spent over $150 million before revenue.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

As I thought about the characteristics that comprise a great program, I identified five criteria that a prospective entrepreneurial student can use to evaluate the efficacy of a collegiate entrepreneur curriculum. Practitioners, Not Professors – classes should be taught by people who have fought hand-to-hand combat in the startup trenches.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 7, 2021

We should think of the creation and growth of a high valued company as the sum of three parts, with three distinct classes of participants helping to make real value out of a raw start-up. It is normal for the first round of organized angels to expect to purchase between twenty and thirty-five percent of the company with their investment.

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Berkonomics

MAY 27, 2021

The usual size of a board is five, but legally the number in most states is equal to the number of shareholders up to a maximum of three board members required by law. The average board for a company taking outside investment money is five. With three or more shareholders, you must have a three-person board of directors in most states.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

This class of investor, once quite disorganized, has become much like the venture capital community, creating a process including due diligence (careful examination of a business before investment), terms of investment that match those of venture capitalists, and a process that often takes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2011

Heart and class are permanent. It’s our reaction to our failures that distinguishes winners from losers. A great entrepreneur is like a great racehorse. There’s no quit in them. Defeats are temporary. Don’t rationalize away the hurt. Don’t kid yourself and try to cover up the hurt with “My idea is just ahead of it’s time.”

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2017

Genomics startups are increasing in number and quality, so much so that three-year-old Illumina Accelerator has expanded with its latest class to accommodate five of them.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 25, 2012

Come to Social Media School with Woodside Media Group and Fifty and Five and learn numerous best practices. It is guaranteed you will be more productive after completing this class. Bring your computer and get ready to immerse yourself for three hours and learn valuable information. Email Amani@woodsidemediagroup.com.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 3, 2013

This 90-minute class will introduce five proven techniques from the design world that can be directly applied to problems in any field. Design is primarily a problem-solving discipline. Designers are trained to find elegant and efficient solutions that generate desire for their products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2019

There is no perfect answer to the competitive advantage question, but investors are looking for how your offering will keep ahead of competition, not just at this moment, but throughout the life of their three to five-year investment. Highlight your world-class team as the secret sauce. Facebook spent over $150 million before revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2021

Based on their work in CleanTech and sustainability, Heck and Rogers outline five strategies for existing companies to apply to current practices and processes for dramatic efficiency improvements in the use or production of resources. This number almost doubles the number who have already moved into the middle class and urbanized.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2022

In fact, Mehta focuses on a special class of entrepreneurs that he calls disruptors. Given these, Mehta outlines five specific steps to get started and stay ahead of the game, which I agree are essential and have paraphrased here: Be open to new opportunities and options.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2010

Costa Mesa-based Emulex has deepened its ties with IBM, saying today that it is providing its OneConnect network adapters into five of IBM's enterprise-class and high volume servers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

She has lived and worked in five countries, and consulted with major corporations, as well as startups, in transforming their workplaces to be more productive as well as more satisfying. All must feel that they are committed to the same goals, and part of the same team – not second-class citizens. Sophie Wade.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

The business tenants of the sharing economy, with alternative names including collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer economy, or “we-conomy,” always imply these five basic principles and assumptions: Sharing economy platforms create reciprocal economic value.

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