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!). In the past 15 years our partners have backed nearly one company every year that was early stage and eventually exited for North of a billion dollars. Anything that works well was her implementation.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

SciVee recently inked a major deal with Thomson Reuters, and Marc tells us a bit about that deal as well as the company's business. One is software, which is very much like software-as-a-service, where we deliver that software to publications and conferences, to enable rich media on their sites.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2009

We caught up with CEO Aaron Crayford to learn about the company. There seem to be a lot of companies launching firms in the video discovery and search area nowadays, where do you fit in? Our software sorts video content relative to its importance to you, based on your social graph and social impact.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

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. The company says it hopes to make its technology available to the general public in mid 2016. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

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Xconomy

MARCH 8, 2018

And just as software focused initially on the IT sector before revolutionizing industries through companies like Amazon, Ebay, and Lyft, today’s innovations in the life sciences are expected to ripple through other industries as well. The biggest revolutions, though, are expected.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I say this as somebody who recruited several Harvard, Wharton and similar MBAs at my first company (the one where I acknowledge that I made every mistake in the book). I then worked in a computer store called Software Centre in high school and college (UCSD). no lost wages) or whose companies sponsored them.

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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. What are some examples of successful companies that were started here? LowerMyBills, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I’ve just completed an investment in Ryan Carson’s new company, TreeHouse. TreeHouse is also a video company. Yet nearly every major tech company or major company hiring tech people have open recs. He sold both companies. It meets everyone of my criteria so I thought I’d elaborate.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

Nearly every company faces its crisis moments and only through the inspiration , focus and dedication of the leadership can you motivate teams to dig in deep and come out the other side stronger. I made an investment in a company with deep domain knowledge. You have beautifully executed software. ON LEADERSHIP.

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