Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. ” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

We’ve called these nine and 10-figure deals, which shine brightly in the media and are hefty enough to bend the curve of VC fund sizes upwards, “ supergiants ” after their stellar counterparts. The San Francisco Bay Area is perhaps one of the best-known tech and startup hubs in the world. How much more? 2018 in perspective.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Gossamer Bio, the San Diego-based biotech founded by former Receptos executives, has raised $276 million in its initial public offering, a total that puts it in a rare class among biotechs that have gone public in recent years. The amount raised surpassed expectations.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

The firm is initially focusing on the Los Angeles market, and connecting people with fun, interesting classes, activities, and more in the local area. We caught up with Bong to hear more about his new startup. From the ground up, we're focused on both social and fun, and our brand attributes are aspirational, cultured, and fun.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2019

Yet Frenkel, a participant in the summer 2015 class at Y Combinator , an influential Silicon Valley accelerator program, raised $120,000 from investors by August that year. Early this year, she sold her company, This is L. , to Cincinnati, OH-based Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG ).

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

For these reasons, fatty liver disease is often called a “silent disease,” says Ariel Feldstein, a gastroenterologist at the University of California San Diego. Feldstein has been studying the liver for nearly 20 years, and his research now forms the basis of a newly launched company called Jecure Therapeutics.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On Monday, nine startups began a 16-week program at Canopy San Diego , a new accelerator program for seed-stage companies developing new technologies, products, and services to support the legal cannabis industry. Three companies from each cohort also will get $50,000 in follow-on funding.

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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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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Recently, the student accelerator program mystartupXX , a joint program of UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management and the Jacobs School of Engineering, won a $50,000 grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration as a Growth Accelerator Fund Competition winner. We were one of 68 winners announced Aug.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The Founder Institute (www.founderinstitute.com), an entrepreneurial training program that originally launched by Adeo Ressi in Silicon Valley, recently announced that it is setting up shop in Southern California, with branches both in San Diego and Los Angeles. And then another $4,500 if you get at least $50,000 in funding.

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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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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2014

Southern California in recent years has become a hotbed of financial startups, and for years has been a destination for companies looking also to address companies across the border in Mexico and Latin America. One of the startups here at the intersection of both, is San Diego''s Quippi (www.quippi.com). businesses.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

UC San Diego has named Todd Hylton, a veteran tech industry manager and expert in neural-based processing technology, as executive director of its new Contextual Robotics Institute. Hylton’s appointment comes less than two months after UC San Diego named Henrik Christensen as director of the robotics institute.

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

One of the types of startups we see most of nowadays, are private sale, limited time bargain, and local group buying startups. One of those startups is Orange County-based DealPerk.com (www.dealperk.com), which is headed by Albert Ko. I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college.

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Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2017

San Diego-based TakeLessons set out nine years ago to create a Web-based platform that helped match music students with qualified instructors. TakeLessons also acquired Chicago-based Betterfly, which offered online vocational classes, DIY projects, and self-improvement courses like public speaking and personal life coaching.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. How did the company start? Noah Auerhahn: We got started right out of USC.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Revolution Prep announced its first, institutional round of funding, worth $15M, from Kennet Partners. How did Revolution Prep start? We started in 2000. It was us, funding ourselves from credit cards, literally, to a company that is now on par with Kaplan and Princeton Review.

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Xconomy

APRIL 4, 2018

The advent of big fundraising rounds for startup chip innovators—a class shunned by most venture capital firms only a few years ago—seems to mark a turnaround in recent VC attitudes about semiconductor investments.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Think “innovation” and you might picture some scrappy entrepreneurs toiling away in a kitchen or garage, hoping the landlord doesn’t notice what they’re up to. Alexandria has put up buildings in virtually every key life science cluster in the U.S., Lately, Alexandria is aggressively expanding its reach.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2017

The newest company aiming to fight cancer with synthetic lethality is Repare Therapeutics, which today announced a $68 M Series A funding after more than 18 months in stealth. Repare can thank the early success of a class of drug called PARP inhibitors, which block an enzyme that cancer cells with.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

The videos on our web site have some proprietary techniques you can't find elsewhere, and we have thousands of heavy science videos on the site -- everything from Nobel prize winners, to National Geographic, to class videos on science and related to science, and even to things students are doing in high school. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2013

In the world of mobile app and Internet startups, it''s not that often that you see companies who touch the hardware side of the world get funding nowadays. One of the companies that has recently is On Ramp Wireless (www.onrampwireless.com), a San Diego company in the M2M market headed by Kevin Hell.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

Santa Barbara has become a high-tech startup mecca, rivaling cities many times its size. The latest evidence of the city’s dynamic startup ecosystem is the recent announcement by Citrix to investment significant resources in the Santa Barbara Innovator’s Program. From Lynda.com ’s recent $1.5 From Lynda.com ’s recent $1.5

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Xconomy

MAY 2, 2017

Donald Trump spent his 100th day in office in ways that would appeal to his working class base—holding a campaign-style rally in Harrisburg, PA, where he confirmed his campaign commitment to controlling immigration.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2011

That nightmare happened to Jim Carol , a serial entrepreneur who was co-founder and CEO of San Diego's PacketVideo , when his son was diagnosed with cancer. Tell us the story of how you started the organization? Jim Carol: I first started working on the concept in 2007, and we filed for our IRS determination letter in 2008.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

In 2015, Cybersecurity startups saw 332 funding deals with investments hitting the highest ever at $3.8 New funds have been raised dedicated to this segment. A Startup’s Opportunity to Thrive. In an ideal world, and from the perspective of a venture investor, this would absolutely be the case.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags. The firm is announcing a substantial Series D funding round today, so we spoke with the firm's CEO, Jason Howe, to get the details on the company and what it's doing.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Liquidity feeds right into the fundraising conditions for venture fund managers. This past quarter there were 56 new funds that raised $9 billion, for an average fund size of $161 million. This is significantly greater than the $77 million average fund size in the third quarter last year.

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Xconomy

JULY 5, 2016

Several world-class research institutions are located in the state, including Indiana University, Purdue University, and the University of Notre Dame. That law helped kick-start the modern tech transfer field. Some of these entrepreneurs are faculty and staff members who license their own work. The results?

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

Or maybe it’s healthier in the long run when the government imposes more progressive taxation and puts the funds into education, social programs, and R&D. Startups and technology giants alike depend on legions of highly educated foreigners working in the U.S. Immigration. under H-1B guest visas.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I’ve heard it many founders of VC backed companies in LA who tell me that in their NorCal VC meetings they are told, “we might be interested but we’d want you to relocate to the Bay Area if we funded you.&#. We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. As a result many funds are OK with big bets.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. Venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager Peter Thiel—PayPals co-founder and Facebook s. and Facebook beef up their presence and more Silicon Valley investors and entrepreneurs establish footholds in.

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