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MAY 10, 2019

An April report from Evaluate Pharma predicted sales of orphan drugs to rise 12 percent a year between now and 2024, when they will account for an estimated 20 percent of worldwide prescription drug sales. The field has gotten so competitive that multiple products are on the market for some diseases.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

By popular acclaim, San Diego-based Echo Laboratories founder Eugene Cho claimed top honors, and a $15,000 check, for his two-minute presentation last week in the 10th annual “Quick Pitch” competition, hosted by San Diego’s Tech Coast Angels. He told the audience Revolve sales had generated $1.8

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

Eugene Cho is CEO of San Diego-based Echo Laboratories (www.discover-echo.com), a startup which is developing a new kind of microscope. My background is I was a sales rep in this industry for fourteen years, with Nikon. So how was it you were able to ramp up sales so quickly? So we had to raise capital to meet orders.

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APRIL 26, 2017

Eugene Cho is CEO of San Diego-based Echo (www.discover-echo.com), a startup which is developing a new kind of microscope. My background is I was a sales rep in this industry for fourteen years, with Nikon. We got first place in that competition, and they followed up with a $2M investment in the form of a convertible note.

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JULY 31, 2013

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. In addition, we''ll be using those funds for sales and marketing, to go into new verticals and new markets, and to build our sales and marketing team.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

billion in December 2014, it counted on blockbuster sales of Cubist’s skin-infection antibiotic daptomycin (Cubicin) for years. The only remaining daptomycin patent will expire in June, clearing the way for generic competition years earlier than expected. billion acquisition of San Diego’s Auspex Pharmaceuticals last year.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Michael Kleist: My business partner and I were both originally from San Diego. We''ll mostly be doing enterprise sales here, but also looking at the technology and design front, hiring better talent, taking design to a new level than maybe what we are in China. It''s also a dog-eat-dog world over there with the competition.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Jonathan Simkin: One of the things I did after graudating, is I joined CONNECT, which is like the entrepreneurial center and hub in San Diego, which is run in conjunction with UCSD and other schools here. Back to the service itself-- you've got lots of competition in the space, how are you going to get above that noise?

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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. There is lots and lots of competition in the area, how is your firm different from the others? One of those startups is Orange County-based DealPerk.com (www.dealperk.com), which is headed by Albert Ko.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Dominating business-to-consumer sales, Amazon seems ready to take over the world of business-to-business too. In its first year, Amazon Business generated $1 billion in sales. However, there is still room for competition. [ This article is co-authored by Stephanie Woerner. ].

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Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

But the company said this week that sales of Sovaldi and Harvoni, which share a common ingredient, sofosbuvir, have slowed with fewer patients starting on the drugs and prices undercut by fierce competition from AbbVie and Merck. But our minds jumped to politics. How about we start a pool? Shares closed Thursday at $9.60

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. Our first big institutional round was $16.5

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

Symantec Forces the Industry to Stay Competitive. No matter what the industry view on Symantec, the other larger established security vendors, to remain competitive and grow in the enterprise market, will absolutely need to acquire other startups to provide best-in-class products.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Look beyond California and you have group purchasing (GroupOn in Chicago, LivingSocial in Washington DC), private sales (Gilt Groupe in NY, HauteLook in LA), artisan marketplaces (Etsy in NY), eCommerce (Amazon in Seattle) and on and on. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Sales of both drugs, ivacaftor (Kalydeco) and the combo pill ivacaftor-lumacaftor (Orkambi), reached almost $1 billion in 2015 and are growing. But the drugs aren’t cures, and competition looms. Telaprevir sales rocketed to nearly $1 billion in the first six months, at the time the fastest drug launch ever.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. Page 3: Competition. I had planned a balance of large companies and SMB/divisional sales but have changed my thinking. My blog was wiped out. Page 4: Business Model.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

San Diego-based Intercasting (www.intercasting.com) is one of the companies which seems to have gotten some traction, and has deployed with Boost, Virgin, Sprint, and is in the process of deploying with Verizon and ATT. What's your opinion on how well that works, and how much competition are they? So we sell into the carriers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. We could all do better – I’m sure.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 26, 2016

Critics say Mylan has been emboldened by the recall of EpiPen’s only competition last fall. The deal also includes a $175 million deferred payment due in 2019 and $850 million in downstream payouts tied to regulatory and sales targets.

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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. We were over 2x up on this round, and we also had a bunch of individual investors who wanted to put in--people who had invested in our competition a few years ago. Congrats on funding.

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