Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2017

A Silicon Valley entrepreneur has set out to boost the startup ecosystem in San Diego and the rest of Southern California—and he already has scored a coup by partnering with Bill Maris, the founder and former CEO of Google Ventures, now known as GV.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. In particular I tried to do most of the “entrepreneur advice on VC” up front so that if you don’t want to watch our views on the deals you don’t have to. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

You took the risk to start your company. Your parents want to know why on Earth you’d leave a job at Google. ” Your peer group is envious of your finally doing what they’ve always wanted to do but found it too hard to give up the golden paycheck and predictable future. The Mind of the Founder. “Honey?

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socalTECH

JUNE 12, 2019

San Diego-based gene therapy startup Locana has just received $550,000 in a grant, from the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), according to the MDA. The award will go to advance Locana's development program for treating mytonic dystrophy (DM). READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. ” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

It's already a great technology center for lots of different areas, but when compared with Silicon Valley, the activity level needs to go way up in order for Southern California to be on par with Silicon Valley. I spent my professional career starting and running tech companies in Silicon Valley, and have been really successful at it.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

San Diego-based Daasity (www.daasity.com)  which just raised $2.3M in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. What does your startup do? Dan LeBlanc: Daasity is about two years old.,

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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

MAY 16, 2018

After establishing a partnership with the Google Cloud Platform, Zesty.io CEO Gerry Widmer said Wednesday the San Diego-based company is expanding its workforce and extending its Web content management system (WCMS) to international customers. founder Randy Apuzzo at the end of 2017.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

It has become so synonymous with Internet companies that the French have invented a disdainful term including Amazon: “les GAFA,” which they refer to as Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon to talk about American dominance of the Internet. ” Let’s start with some basics. How valuable are these legacy businesses?

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

Google Fiber plans to acquire Webpass in a deal that trims the ranks of independent Internet service providers—an industry already maligned for its lack of competition—but ultimately could boost consumer access to high-speed Internet. Six-year-old Google Fiber has had its own set of challenges.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 11, 2017

If you’re looking for a counterpoint to the recent flurry of news stories about sexual harassment and gender bias in the tech sector, the Kauffman Fellows program isn’t a bad place to start.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 31, 2017

In his first public appearance since leaving Google Ventures, Bill Maris said Wednesday his new venture fund, Section 32, is nearly fully invested—less than four months after he officially unveiled its existence in the San Diego area.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

There seems to a perpetual shortage of local venture capital investors in the region, despite the huge growth in startup activity here, particularly along Silicon Beach. How did you guys end up working together on investments? A few years back, I started looking at angel investing.

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Xconomy

APRIL 4, 2018

The advent of big fundraising rounds for startup chip innovators—a class shunned by most venture capital firms only a few years ago—seems to mark a turnaround in recent VC attitudes about semiconductor investments.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2015

San Diego-based DNA sequencing equipment maker Illumina has joined in a new venture funding round for high profile, genetic testing startup 23andMe. San Diego-based DNA sequencing equipment maker Illumina has joined in a new venture funding round for high profile, genetic testing startup 23andMe.

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2019

We’ll tackle big trends, challenges, and opportunities in areas like venture capital, software, genomics, digital medicine, education, and diversity. We’ll tackle big trends, challenges, and opportunities in areas like venture capital, software, genomics, digital medicine, education, and diversity.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2017

The list of technology startups in Southern California who are "unicorns"--valued at more than $1 billion--surprisingly, might not be who you think, and in the sectors you might expect. Razer, the maker of gaming accessories, has recently filed for an IPO, which values the company at up to $5 billion. Razer (www.razerzone.com).

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

An organization representing venture capital firms filed a federal suit in Washington, DC, on Tuesday accusing Trump Administration officials of unlawfully delaying a program that would have allowed international entrepreneurs to work at companies they founded within the United States.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The produce grown by indoor farming startup Bowery never sees soil or natural sunlight before making its way to select restaurants and grocery stores in the Big Apple. GV, Google’s venture capital arm, led. Now Bowery aims to give the rest of the country a taste. Now Bowery aims to give the rest of the country a taste.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

One complaint we sometimes hear from venture capitalists visiting Southern California for the first time, is the difficulty of finding experienced entrepreneurs and executives. His latest startup, Row 44, is providing hardware to Southwest Airlines and other airlines for wireless access, and has a number of announced wins.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2018

Diffbot , a tech startup that continuously scours the Web to assemble a “knowledge graph” of billions of facts in context, announced today that it’s opening up the searchable resource to the public—with starter rates as low as a cable TV bill.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Top venture capital firms continue to pour money into software robotics companies that promise to automate monotonous business operations, like processing mortgage applications, that are often performed by humans. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2018

The San Jose, CA-based company, begun in 2003 by four co-founders who bootstrapped its funding, has built a customer base of 1,100 firms including Google, GM, Siemens, Cisco Systems, LinkedIn, Comcast, and Juniper Networks. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

A growing number of startups are trying to encourage people to share genomic and other health data for research purposes by offering them some form of compensation. Now, as competition in this young sector ramps up, one of the big questions is what type of incentive will attract the most individuals.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

We recently spoke with Tyler Koblasa , Founder and CEO of Mingly , a Santa Monica-based startup which is pulling together contacts from multiple sources, and adding such tools as contact reminders, to-do lists, and alerts based on those contacts. Tyler told us about his startup and what it's up to. What is Mingly all about?

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Xconomy

MARCH 22, 2018

But in the past few years, Bose has also started to look outside its walls for other sources of innovation. The privately held company made its first investment in a startup in late 2015, and last year it officially launched a corporate venture. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

It''s about as complicated as Google Adwords. Jeff Curie: I''ve been a startup guy here in Orange County for a long time. I was hired to head up strategy, marketing development, and product management. We grew that up, and did very well, and eventually sold it to IBM. Why did you start in that market?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. How did the company start? Noah Auerhahn: We got started right out of USC.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The Bristol, UK-based startup, founded in 2016, has now secured a total of more than $300 million in financing from venture capital firms and other investors including Microsoft and the corporate venture arms of BMW and Dell Technologies. One of the leading contenders in the A.I.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out.

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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.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

New England Venture Capital Association’s Jody Rose : “I respect the office of the president and always will. He has an awesomely difficult task, since it is long past time for us to face up to our country’s problems. Startups and big companies alike in trouble. That’s my plan.” Ok, America.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In order to use “free” apps and Web services from the likes of Facebook (NASDAQ: FB ) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL ), people are required to share personal data that gets used by brands and companies to try and sell them stuff. That online contract. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

APRIL 9, 2018

It’s the kind of clothes swapping that women have been doing offline since, likely, as long as there have been garments, says Emily Fox, director of marketing communications at LeTote, a San Francisco e-commerce startup. Women are tired of what’s in their closets; they. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Miner helped shape the smartphone era with Android, a mobile operating system startup that Google acquired in 2005. Within 20 years, computer keyboards will be relegated to the technology dustbin, says Android co-founder Rich Miner. Android software now powers over 2 billion devices.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Esperanto Technologies , a startup AI chip developer that has operated mostly below the radar since its founding in 2014, announced this week that it raised $58 million in a Series B fundraising round. The field includes big semiconductor companies like Nvidia and tech giants like Google and Facebook, as well as other startups.

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