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. Most of what I think about startup communities came from mentorship by Brad Feld through hours of private discussion and debate.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Today, one of the companies that is supplying produce and other items both to consumers and other services that are in turn selling food and groceries to them, is announcing a new round of funding as it gears up to take its next step, an IPO. Source tell us it is now between $400 million and $500 million.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

No one would argue that San Diego is overflowing with venture capitalists in the way, say, the San Francisco Bay Area is. The idea was to get more local startups an. In fact, the region’s relative dearth of investors is often bemoaned by local entrepreneurs. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2018

San Diego-based Chalice Wealth Partners , a new startup developing a technology-enabled, membership-based organization for registered independent advisors (RIAs) and wealth managers, has raised $4.6M The funding was led by Uinta Investment Partners. in a Series A funding.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

In the end of a sad saga for the startup investment community in Southern California, a San Diego man has been convicted in the murder of a Tech Coast Angels member last year. Keigwin had been found by local Tech Coast Angel members, after failing to show for an event he was organizing in June of 2010.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

The Tech Coast Angels , Southern California's most active , organized angel investment group, has a goal: cut down the time it takes to fund a startup presenting to the organization.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based Kazuhm , a startup developing a distributed computing workload platform, has received a funding round from Analytics Ventures, Analytics said this week. Size of the investment was not announced.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 6, 2020

I have started to publish a version of the newsletter on TechCrunch. I will repeat my appeal from last week: Maybe you’re a startup founder, a safety driver at an autonomous vehicle developer, a venture capitalist, engineer or gig economy worker. metro area, San Diego and Santa Monica. A novel rewards program.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2016

In the case of San Diego's Classy (www.classy.org), you get an extremely popular piece of software-as-a-service to help you manage a nonprofit and its fundraising efforts. Scott Chisolm: Classy started as a fundraising application for nonprofit organization. How did you start the company? What is Classy?

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

San Diego-based Daasity (www.daasity.com)  which just raised $2.3M We spoke with CEO and co-founder Dan LeBlanc , a veteran of ProFlowers and FTD, on how he started the company and he problem the startup is solving for direct to consumer brands. What does your startup do? founded in summer of 2017.

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Xconomy

MARCH 21, 2018

Many top food companies are increasingly pumping money into supporting young, innovative startups, according to a recent analysis by CB Insights. The big guys are starting to figure out that they can’t really innovate well enough within their own organization,” says Robyn Metcalfe, director of Food+City , a multi-departmental.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. What was the biggest news for your organization in 2018? You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here. Happy Holidays!

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2015

San Diego-based Events.com , the startup led by Gregg Parise which helps event organizers with their events and event registration, has raised a new funding round, and acquired EventsOnline. EventsOnline is a provider of registration for the endurance market. Events.com says it has now raised over $17M in funding.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

A couple of weeks ago, twelve companies moved into the new downtown San Diego, EvoNexus incubator--which is run by CommNexus. Running that effort is Kevin Hell , the founder of DivX, who we caught up with to learn more about EvoNexus and how the group is trying to help grow technology startups in San Dieog.

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

Our interview today is with Dmitri Leonov and Constantine Suychmez of Ulevate (www.ulevate.com), a startup which is combining technology with the beauty and spa industry. Essentially, the customer wants natural and organic ingredients. We started as a seller of equipment in Europe. What is Ulevate?

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Xconomy

JULY 15, 2019

I truly believe AI is going to be that big, if not bigger, because it is not only going to create new efficiencies and help solve a lot of problems (in fact, it is already), it’s going to shake the very foundations of how work itself – and businesses, the orchestrators of work – are organized. Already hundreds of.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

Matthew Jenusaitis: Overall, I am real happy with the first year, both from a personal point of view, as well as for the organization. That was primarily driven by the economy; when the economy is down, investments are down, and it is increasingly difficult to d a startup. I have also been very happy with our organization.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Executives at biotech startup Celularity believe cells from this organ can also be developed into treatments for a wide range of diseases, and the company announced Thursday that it has $250 million in funding to move its plans forward. Hariri had also co-founded Human Longevity, a San Diego company that is analyzing.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

“You look at a dog, and see his eyes, and think he’s cute,” says Tama Lundquist, co-president of Houston PetSet, an organization that works with about 70 animal shelters in the Houston area. Nearly half of those animals end up euthanized. But if you’re a couch potato and he likes to run, that’s not going to work out.”

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2011

The response is from Tom Tierney , an angel investor from the Tech Coast Angels San Diego. It's enticing in the "blogosphere" to be controversial for "controversy sake" to up your page views and re-tweets, but remember internet data is cached. DON'T DITCH YOUR "REP" FOR RE-TWEETS. Not bad for "dinosaurs".

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2017

We caught up with CEO Joe Nigro , the former VP of Growth at HomeHero and General Manager of Handy, and talk about why he started Work Today and how the service works. I started by rolling up my sleeves a year ago, and passing out business cards in both English and Spanish, saying �text me for jobs�.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. I arrived at 12:50 PM in the afternoon, 10 minutes before my start time.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. The reality of most startups is about survival. If people don’t know the mission there is no way to achieve the objective and you end up with a team pulling in 100 different directions – even if only by small amounts.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Intel Capital has invested $38 million in 12 technology startups since July, highlighting its venture investment focus on innovations in self-driving cars and machine vision, the Internet of Things, sports and health, drones, and virtual reality. We’re aligned, but not overlapping, is the way I like to look at it.”.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

I realized that other organizations could benefit from what I’ve learned in this process. The mystartupXX accelerator is focused on providing mentorship, education, and funding to female-led technology-based startups at UC San Diego. It has been wonderful to play a role in helping female-led startups flourish.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

A cybersecurity report by Ponemon Institute, in association with Keeper Security, found that in the 12 months leading up to June 2016, 55 percent of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) experienced a cyber attack, while 50 percent encountered data breaches involving customer and employee information. A Good Cybersecurity Program Matters.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2012

If you head up marketing for an Internet company, you're undoubtedly used to having to work--or fight--with your IT department to help maintain your web site and manage all of the changes you need done. Last month, San Diego-based Tealium (www.tealium.com) announced a healthy, $10.5M Ali Benham: We started as a consultancy.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Think “innovation” and you might picture some scrappy entrepreneurs toiling away in a kitchen or garage, hoping the landlord doesn’t notice what they’re up to. Alexandria has put up buildings in virtually every key life science cluster in the U.S., Lately, Alexandria is aggressively expanding its reach.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 1, 2016

What organizations need to do is define the level of cyber risk they’re willing to accept in the context of their overall risk appetites. The first thing organizations need to do is broaden their definition of cyber risk and understand how much risk they’re willing to take. Where to Start? Defining Cyber Risk Appetite.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

Paul Myer: Veracity Industrial Networks is a startup in the industrial network security segment. Industrial networking is a new category for me, personally, and I only started here two years ago. The problem with that, is these systems, in the early days, were air-gapped from IT networks within the same organizations.

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Xconomy

MARCH 13, 2020

The World Health Organization this week declared that the COVID-19 outbreak was serious enough to classify as pandemic. The financial markets are tumbling , event cancellations are mounting , and sports leagues are suspending their seasons. March Madness is in full swing but not in any way that people wanted or expected.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Arivale (www.arivale.com), a startup founded by Dr. Leroy Hood, the well known DNA and genomics pioneer�which combines gene sequencing with a host of other diagnostic tests, with personalized counselors and health and wellness recommendations, recently launched an expansion into California, starting in Los Angeles. Why is that?

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

For several years now, the “cybersecurity skills gap” has been a top challenge for organizations. — Security teams need immediate help: The average organization needs to process more than 200,000 pieces of security event data per day. . Identify Your Organization’s Skills Gap. Which tasks should be automated?

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Xconomy

JUNE 7, 2018

Despite all the hype and business investment, drones are mostly flown by hobbyists and the military these days, says Ken Stewart.

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Xconomy

MARCH 26, 2018

Like a human, AI’s learning is only as good as the data it is fed,” said Manoj Saxena, former head of IBM Watson in Austin, TX, and a prominent investor in AI startups. A new organization called Ada-AI, which is based in. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JULY 31, 2018

Co-founder Maria Markina says her New York-based startup gives women the convenience of a subscription service but at lower prices compared to other similar services. Athena Club plans to offer two lines, organic and. million in funding. We’re also giving women the ability to customize among multiple sizes and different frequencies.”

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