Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

In other Google-related news, Recode reported that Bill Maris, the founder and president of Google Ventures (now called GV), has left the firm and will be replaced by David Krane. . —The U.S. Alex Lash examined the company’s role, via its biotech subsidiary Verily Life Sciences, in the massive project. —David H. In the U.S.,

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I pointed to several Economist articles I had read that mapped historical prices of real estate for 400 years and how on average property values grow at no more 1.5% above inflation yet in many markets in the US & Europe prices were rising at 10-25% per year. And it’s driving up prices beyond their inherent value.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. In our industry we call that a TAM (total addressable market) and I’m sure you can even Google methods for calculating a TAM.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

First, over time Salesforce.com’s technology got better and better yet the price didn’t shoot up dramatically relative to Siebel. They have existing customers who already paid big prices who would be seriously pissed off if the next guy bought the same thing for 10x less. They are radically lower in price.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

While we all know a few good entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, the Internet is full of stories on many more who capitalized on at least four years of college, including Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Chad Hurley of YouTube and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy. It’s never too early to stop studying and start doing it for real.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

In the IAB study that revealed the graph above, brand advertisers indicated that their number one objective in online advertising was “creating awareness&# followed by “creating purchase intent&# or “likelihood to recommend&# the product. Give people massive price increases on most media and they’ll abandon it.

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 16, 2017

A study in 2013 showed that 61 percent of marketers found it hard to generate high-quality leads. Pricing: Valet – up to 1000 leads/month, $49. Pricing: Essential – for growing startups, $37/month. Connect your Google account with Milkshake to get started. Pricing: $9/user/month.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

We led off with a discussion about Slide being acquired by Google, which was breaking news in the time slot where we filmed this episode. Specifically we talked about Slide having gotten a $550 million valuation before being sold to Google for $182 million. A recent study said seed stage valuations have been quite static recently.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. Product is simply about defining a physical good or service that would be valued by consumers of the product more than existing alternatives based on functionality, quality and/or price.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

I think, to be a great entrepreneur, you have to look at what is missing in the category that you will be playing in the industry, and figure what you can deploy with a little bit of strategy and technology to bring a better service and price. People were not just going to Google, they were looking all over the place.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

While we all know a few good entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, the Internet is full of stories on many more who capitalized on at least four years of college, including Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Chad Hurley of YouTube and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy. It’s never too early to stop studying and start doing it for real.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

While we all know a few good entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, the Internet is full of stories on many more who capitalized on at least four years of college, including Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Chad Hurley of YouTube and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy. It’s never too early to stop studying and start doing it for real.

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Xconomy

JUNE 21, 2019

The announcement comes less than a month after Boulder, CO-based Array announced positive data from a pivotal study of its combination drug in colorectal cancer. Cancer remains one of the hottest areas for pharma deals and this week saw a big one: Pfizer’s proposed $11.4 billion buyout of Array Biopharma.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these “techno geeks” can pay. Is Google to blame? Of course not. Is Silicon Valley to blame.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2013

In my post I noted the bias in his accent comments and also called b t on his statements that Demo Days are great because “the bad companies look good” and that VCs should compete to “pay the highest price & offer the best terms.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Excite, MSN and eventually Google. If you’re negotiating with Samsung you can imagine they have Apple on their minds and if you’re negotiating with Twitter you can imagine they have eyes on Facebook, Google and even Snapchat. So the value on the Internet went “up the stack” to portals such as Yahoo!,

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

BCG, Bain, LEK – they’re all great), a few years at a start-up or a few years somewhere like Microsoft, Google, Amazon or Apple. I also know many people who never studied business as an undergrad who appreciated the knowledge that they gained as an MBA. MBA fine, but not required. What about strategy? What you lose: 4.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

He studied the errors that other people had made and tried to improve on them. He wanted to create awareness for himself to generate marketing buzz and demand and then get the retail stores to pay wholesales prices for his cds. He’s holding back for now, but he’s clearly studying what’s going on in technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Good examples of startup focus before success include Google with their search engine, Facebook with friends networking, and Apple with personal computers. Study their moves and engage your team for an analysis of updates. The message here is focus , reiterated by every advisor and investor.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Noah Auerhahn: ExtraBux helps consumers get the lowest prices online, by integrating online discounts into a comparison shopping engine. Did you have any prior background in this, and what were you two studying? That was really enormous for us, and we were the number one searched-for thing on Google that morning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2016

Even the best technology can’t read your mind, which is why a simple Google search often gives frustrating and irrelevant results, and online advertisers bombard you with opportunities of no interest. They believe that the benefits of sharing data are very much worth the price of providing access to their data. Norton, Ph.D.,

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

One, is it makes it easy for businesses to embed that video on their own website, on blogs, and Facebook, and they can also link to that video on their Google Places page. To the extent that a business is not familiar with embedding, we also help them with that process, with claiming their Google Places page, and link that video.

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Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

BIO president and CEO Jim Greenwood (pictured), a former Congressman-turned-lobbyist, told an audience, “We are fighting back,” and unveiled plans to put some of the blame for high drug prices on insurance companies. The new prices don’t reflect rebates and discounts.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

In automation news, Google's Deep Mind AI taught itself to walk last summer. Yet, in another study, it still has difficulties understanding Homer Simpson's actions. They have really turned the screws on other retailers, which in turn impact brands and manufacturers through price pressure and convenience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Nevertheless, there is nothing wrong with studying and learning from the wisdom and experience of others. From tablets to smart phones to Google Glass , people are increasingly relying on their mobile devices to assist them in managing their lives. Kerr, “ The Executive Checklist: A Guide for Setting Direction and Managing Change.”

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

All-in-all one study found that “1 in 5 people who receive an Internet coupon redeemed it;” so clearly digital couponing is more than just “another distribution channel,” as some analysts have previously stated. A study conducted by Rice University’s Jesse H.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

It connects to your linkedin, facebook and google accounts and allows you to collect feedback from any of your connections securely, simply and very quickly. The EA works closely with the Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at UCLA. digmybrand. An online marketplace for legal services.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

New documents came to light that showed the sugar industry paid for studies downplaying the ties between sugar and heart disease. Meanwhile, there was yet another twist in the ongoing Duchenne muscular dystrophy drama, more biotech buyouts, new startups, and the filing of a long anticipated IPO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2016

Good examples of startup focus before success include Google with their search engine, Facebook with friends networking, and Apple with personal computers. Study their moves and engage your team for an analysis of updates. The message here is focus , reiterated by every advisor and investor.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Much effort and study has been expended to determine how a web site can better convert its visitors to paying customers. One of the most important elements of Google’s newest guidelines for search engine optimization is the speed with which a site loads. Site Speed . There is ample justification for these guidelines.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 27, 2017

A new study showed it may take another 40 years to achieve gender diversity in life sciences. It was a wild week in biotech and on Capitol Hill. Tensions continued to mount between drugmakers and payers over the rising costs of rare disease drugs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

It’s true this was much bigger in the dot com era but I’ve studied the data and know that over the past decade these numbers are right. It is true that every few years a fund exits that delivers smashing results because it has Facebook, Google or Twitter in it. billion each, $7.5 Not according to my sources.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Typically entrepreneurs doubt themselves because they undervalue their offerings, but it isn’t about creating a product, setting a price and hoping people will buy. Valu e and Exp erience versus Price and Product. Now study the event organizer. The best place to find forums is Google. What are their interests?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 10, 2012

what you can see with out scrolling down) probably get well over 85-90% of all of the downloads (much like on Google). The craziest part is that studies have started to show that users who download an app for free are likely to spend more than $0.99 App prices change all of the time. That’s because those developers optimized.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1 Also, you mentioned an interesting rails session that you attended last month about security, and we've been studying Google's web app security guidelines. billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

And these wearables are here to stay, as the International Data Corporation (IDC) reveals a study that 19.2 Minkoff’s line is expected to be launched during the Holiday season and these are priced at $120 and $60, respectively. . And it is estimated to grow higher in numbers, hitting 112 million being sold by 2018.

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

We'd do a Series A, and participate in the Series B, but when companies hit breakout, we would call a late stage VC and have them price the deal, and do all of that. Especially, since we are in SoCal and not in San Francisco, where although we've had some great companies lately, there are not as many case studies of what a company could be.

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