Xconomy

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

It’s not easy to catch up with Bill Maris at Section 32, the venture firm he founded last year near San Diego. It took a while to arrange a call to discuss how Foundation Medicine’s Michael Pellini had joined Section 32 as Maris’s first investing partner, and what they plan to do together.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

It’s not easy to catch up with Bill Maris at Section 32, the venture firm he founded last year near San Diego. It took a while to arrange a call to discuss how Foundation Medicine’s Michael Pellini had joined Section 32 as Maris’s first investing partner, and what they plan to do together.

Course 45

Course San Diego Invest Funding 45

socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2020

San Diego-based Aspen Neuroscience , a biotechnology company developing treatments for Parkinson disease, said it has raised $70M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by OrbiMed, and also included ARCH Venture Partners, Frazier Healthcare Partners, Domain Associates, Section 32, and Sam Altman.

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San Diego Screening Study Course 113

socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2018

San Diego-based Samumed , a biopharmaceuticals firm focused on treatments for Alzheimer's and other diseases, has raised a huge, $438M funding round, the company said on Monday. Samumed says its small molecule drug platform has the potential to reverse the course for severe and prevalent diseases. Osman Kibar, Ph.D.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

His ideas to date hadn’t totally resonated and of course ideas matter, too. It was in San Diego and I had space in my apartment but I had a lot of extra stuff that was easier stored in a facility. Of course there is competition! Of course a show gave them an award! He was already a line to me, not a dot.

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UCSD Startup Ideas Course 340

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Actually, there is tons of wealth in San Diego but it isn’t organized well to support them. Maker Studios.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Of course not. ” Your VC friends have been egging you on. You have a runway that would make San Diego Airport’s look long. Of course you need to be open. The don’t understand VC liquidation preferences or multiple return expectations. Of course you shouldn’t f **g buy a house.

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Xconomy

JULY 10, 2016

When I told Larry Bock in an email about four months ago that I had been diagnosed with cancer, the renowned San Diego life sciences investor asked if he might see me at UC San Diego’s Moores Cancer Center. I got off relatively easy with a short course of chemotherapy and radiation.

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Xconomy

JUNE 24, 2019

Risk capital would be allocated based mostly on evidence, data, progress towards milestones—in short, on proof. In the real world, of course, proof is hard to come by. These can be positive attributes in an entrepreneur, but in a more rational world, technology investors wouldn’t overvalue them.

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Technical Review Course Capital Entrepreneur 107

Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2019

San Francisco-based Degreed is among the educational technology companies now classified as “learning experience platforms,’’ because they organize staff participation in skills development training and coordinate it with the goals of employers, who are their clients. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

MAY 29, 2020

ASCO 2020 won’t be the Windy City gathering it usually is, but drug and diagnostics developers are still raring to share fresh data from their efforts in cancer immunotherapy, targeted treatments, and early-stage screening methods during the course of the three-day scientific program. While oncology.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups. And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses. I did programming for the career center at UC San Diego, trying to build programs for the career center. it would make more sense than “me.”

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Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Venture Capital 337

Xconomy

MARCH 5, 2019

Gottlieb’s remit extended beyond drugs, of course, to food safety and tobacco regulation, and his legacy may well rest in his efforts to curtail teenage vaping and smoking. He leaves a record of health and medical regulation that was more active than critics who spoke out against his nomination in early 2017 might have expected.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Instead, of course, they travel via the Internet to someone else’s data center—an unquestionably physical array of servers set on solid floors that can bear the weight. But cloud gets it right on one score—it suggests distance.

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Xconomy

APRIL 16, 2018

million agreement to acquire General Assembly, a tech training and career development company that offers courses online and at 20 campuses worldwide. The Adecco Group, the global staffing and worker training giant, has inked a $412.5

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Training Incubator Demand Course 59

Xconomy

DECEMBER 8, 2017

And, of course, there are several healthcare implications for the Republican tax bill, the fate of which. The FDA will consider for the first time whether a video game should be approved as medicine. The agency could also give its first nod for a gene therapy. We could see the first clinical trial by a U.S.

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Xconomy

MAY 30, 2016

What, I think, is the first technology-based, early-stage venture capital fund anywhere, American Research and Development , was founded between Georges Doriot at Harvard Business School and Karl Compton, who was president of MIT at the time. Just about nothing, one or two courses— Ed Roberts had one—on entrepreneurship.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

Participants will also be paired with coaches and will network for board seats after the course is over. The organizers say they want to place the entire inaugural class on boards within a year of completion of the course. percent of partners in traditional VC firms were women, Liftstream found.

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Training Class Organization Course 40

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. Some of the biggest school districts, including LA Unified, San Diego, and Oakland all use our software. Now, despite bootstrapping, you actually have some connections to the venture capital world, don't you?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

But of course all of these things are intertwined. We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. Of course continued failure means it’s time for change.

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Startup Coach Course Invest 150

Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

Kashyap promises “steady activity over the course of the year” in companies building complements to Microsoft’s public cloud, Azure; the Windows and HoloLens ecosystems; and productivity and communication technologies linked to Office 365. Nagraj Kashyap (photo courtesy of Qualcomm).

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Funding Artificial Inteligence Cloud Computing Writing 62

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. But notably you had the following changes: Horizontally scalable computing & storage systems, which meant you required less capital up front for hardware. Venture Capital. And then the world changed. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. We have invested $17.3

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Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. The VC partner, somebody I greatly respect said, “Yeah, we like Gil and what they’re doing. That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check.

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Xconomy

JULY 12, 2016

Over the course of the two-day event, drones and the sharing economy came up again and again as game-changing technologies with the power to improve our lives. Experts in cutting-edge technology huddled with business leaders and investors in the California wine country to explore what’s on, and just over, the technological horizon.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

Celgene paid Acetylon $100 million in 2013 for an option to buy the company outright, but the deal recently expired without an acquisition, leaving Acetylon to chart a new course. . —Option-to-buy deals are by definition no guarantee, and an agreement between Boston-based Acetylon Pharmaceuticals and Celgene is the latest example.

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Google Technical Review News Research 40

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

Try to imagine if you *didn’t* already know Amazon and the company walking into VC meetings telling people they were going to disrupt the selling of all goods starting with books but then extending into electronics, apparel, toys and so forth. Of course they are. How valuable are these legacy businesses? And they have.

Ideas 150

Ideas Startup Technical Review Pricing 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Of course articles like these are going to inflame people because not everybody who is running their own business (or aspires to) wants to believe that you need to go all out to compete and win on a global scale. We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g.

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Conference 308

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

Let me give you another simple example from my experience as a VC at Upfront Ventures. When we went to raise funds we faced lots of competition as there are of course many other VC funds in the country. I think that’s where many startups and even VC funds go wrong. We do a lot of deals in San Francisco.

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