Xconomy

JULY 24, 2020

EQRx launched in January during the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference with an audacious pledge to create 10 new drugs in as many years and then sell them at “dramatically” lower prices than existing medicines. But it offered few specifics about how it would achieve those goals. But not much. They’re intended to address the No.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Los angeles-based video site Hulu said this morning that it has inked a deal with the TED conference--which, not coincidentally, kicks off today in Long Beach--and will be featuring the 50 most popular TEDTalks from the last few years. No financial details of the partnership were disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2014

We spoke with Kevin Winston, the organizer of Silicon Beach Fest (www.siliconbeachfest.com), which is currently going on in Santa Monica and runs through Saturday, about the energy here in Southern California, as well as a little bit about what''s going on with the event this year. We have Chet Pipkin, talking about Belkin.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2019

Earlier this month, the annual Montgomery Summit conference was held in Santa Monica, including a special portion of the conference dedicated to the Rise of the Female Entrepreneur. I see you were involved in the Rise of the Female Entrepreneur effort at the Montgomery Summit this year, tell me a little about what that is all about?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. It’s predictable, there is no reason to get mad about it and with a well-designed play book you can overcome this much of the time.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2013

Skeuomorphic design. FLAT design. But think about it … What made Instagram, Instagram with a B? While many companies chased features, functions, integrations, platforms, toys, conferences … these companies quietly sharpened the saw. Disappearing photo messages. Native apps. Open graph. Twitter Amplify.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Saturday, December 17, 2011 -- Teens in Tech Conference. The Teens in Tech Conference is about connecting youth and technology with entrepreneurship, startups and the web. We'll achieve just that in front of an audience of young entrepreneurs, developers and designers. See [link] (more)

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Many experts are certain that successful entrepreneurs are the ones with the most inspiration (passion and dream), while others will assert that it’s about more perspiration (working harder). Enjoy that first video interview at an industry conference, or the newspaper story which enhances your startup visibility and credibility.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

In many ways, this was like all the other Tesla events I’ve attended: the pumpy music and mood lighting, the designed-to-inspire kick off video, the Tesla superfans (pictured below), and the long lines for a brief test ride. Now it’s about to get bigger. And yet, something was different. Well, a tornado of scooters.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

If you are like us, a huge number of the conference calls you participate in are enabled by a company called FreeConferenceCall.com , which has enabled free conference calls for millions of startups and large businesses alike. But, how can the company offer up free conference calling services, and what''s the story behind the service?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 1, 2011

SMASH is an interactive conference designed to help you make better decisions about deploying social media for marketing, public relations and corporate communications. Thursday, April 7, 2011 -- S.M.A.S.H. Social Media Advanced Skills Huddle). socalTECH readers get $100 off using code socaltechsmash. See [link] (more)

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 30, 2013

This fun conference will have over 85 sessions on various technologies including Web Development, Mobile, Ruby , Javascript and more. And it’s not just strictly coding, they will also have a few sessions dedicated to Design and even Project Management. The event runs for two days from November 9 th to 10 th on the USC campus.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 24, 2015

The SME’s Sillicon Valley chapter is pleased to announce the 10th Annual SME SV Conference held in conjuction with the Design 2 Part Show. Learn about career pathways to the medical industry. Enjoy 3D printing, laser, and robotics demonstrations. Enjoy 3D printing, laser, and robotics demonstrations.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 8, 2010

Twiistup just announced a new "Ultimate Executive Conference" to be held at a 5-Diamond resort in Dana Point, CA. The Retreat is an exclusive executive level "conference." Or if you think you are going to get an invite then you have nothing to worry about ;). What is the Retreat? Who's in the Retreat?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2020

Many experts are certain that successful entrepreneurs are the ones with the most inspiration (passion and dream), while others will assert that it’s about more perspiration (working harder). Enjoy that first video interview at an industry conference, or the newspaper story which enhances your startup visibility and credibility.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

My biggest take away from Startup Grind Conference 2016 is how genuinely the organization is committed to uniting and helping startups accelerate together on a global level. It was about being real. Startup Grind is about serving for the better of the whole and not about individual notoriety or ego. Yup, that guy.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

Find A Concept You Are Passionate About. Mark admitted that one of the mistakes he made early in his career was pursuing a business concept about which he was not passionate. We didn’t even think about how we were going to answer calls… or how we were going to respond to everybody. Start Lean.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

Anyway, Chris’s blog got me thinking about Techies and Normals. I think this is a perfect way to think about the world when you’re designing your product / company. Quite honestly I see way too many company pitches that are designed for Techies but I only want to invest in products designed for Normals.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

If you haven’t yet heard about Female Founder Office Hours it is an initiative you should be aware of whether you’re male, female or any other gender identify. My grandmother was one of the first woman to earn a math degree from Columbia and never gave a damn about what women are “supposed to do.” 8% of VC partnerships, for example).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever get I’m about to offer you some fund-raising advice that flies directly in the face of what most conventional wisdom will tell you. Why you should never have a data room?—?the If you stick through to the end I’m guessing I can persuade most of you. How should I best prepare for that?”

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2013

Last week, Google hosted their annual developer’s conference Google I/O , announcing some exciting new products and releases that will likely change the world in the few years to come. And of course, one of the products that were heavily discussed about was Google+. New Google+ announced in last week’s Google I/O.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about The Silent Benefits of PR in which I pointed out that most young companies I encounter don’t fully grasp the benefits of PR because they are less measurable than product milestones or customer acquisition analyses (like CAC/LTV). I wrote about how to build relationships with journalists in this post.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2014

We spoke with Jonathan about the company and where it fits into the advertising market. What is Tapstone all about? About five years ago, I got into digital advertising. I was pretty good at it, and started working for a digital agency doing that for about four years, before starting this company.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. no, I''m not talking about SVB, Comerica, Square1 and the like. Hardly a reason to get excited about winning a deal.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

Yesterday I wrote a post about top-down versus bottom-up thinking. So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. You get a lot of traffic – not always results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

in Physics who talks passionately about starting a business producing nuclear powered batteries. His challenge is to focus on one market, with a specific design, cost, and price. For example, I have a friend with a Ph.D. I have tried to convince him the general idea alone does not make a business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

He has it on stage, too, at conferences. We all could learn a bit more about balance , as Brad Feld has outlined. I would love for prospective investors in Dave’s fund to call me personally to learn about “the real Dave.”. If you haven’t read his latest missive about himself, you should. He can’t help himself: He’s Dave.

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

TED…a conference where people tell interesting short stories of their experiences in life. TEDActive is where TEDWannabees like me pay 2/3 the price of the actual TED Conference in Long Beach and hang out with 399 others and watch the event on TV, live. This is the actual conference in Long Beach and is invitation only.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

and then took the lid off of the product by announcing the company – I wrote about that here. They unveiled the app the the Launch conference and unanimously won 1st prize by all 10 judges. We then spent much of 2013 proving out the merchant model in one city – Los Angeles. ” Ah, but that’s exactly the point.

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

TED…a conference where people tell interesting short stories of their experiences in life. TEDActive is where TEDWannabees like me pay 2/3 the price of the actual TED Conference in Long Beach and hang out with 399 others and watch the event on TV, live. This is the actual conference in Long Beach and is invitation only.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

“[It] is super competitive and great for companies looking to not only gain exposure but to learn from and see the breath of other startups and founders in the space,” said Darlene Gillard, Director of Community and Partner of digitalundivided, about the Startup of the Year competition. Indiegogo (San Francisco,CA and New York, NY).

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Berkonomics

MAY 12, 2016

Work some more, until the designated “quitting time,” which again, may be influenced by the unspoken rule that only slackers leave right at 5 pm. It’s Not About Logistics. The dedicated team members stay long past that. Where is the balance?

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. Tesla is not. It's a great talk. It's a great talk.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

If you think about it, in a multi-player game, for example, you have a very limited vocabulary for interaction. You can move around in the game, you can shoot someone, and you can die, but that's about it. The other nice thing about that, is as things are happening on the same computer, there is no server code to write.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. All are great firms with great reputations and phenomenal returns.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

“We should couple innovation with biosecurity,” DARPA program manager Renee Wegrzyn, said Tuesday at the SynBioBeta conference in South San Francisco. ” At the conference, FBI supervisory special agent Ed You told the audience the bureau is aware of the need for new biosecurity measures.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

We spoke with Alex Schneider, who is managing the effort, about what the incubator is and what it hopes to accomplish. Tell us about the incubator--how long as it been around? Alex Schneider: We designed the space to be a real creative, collaborative environment. What is the Ventura incubator?

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