socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2011

How did an email marketing provider turn into a provider of software which mashes up a combination of email marketing, wiki, customer service management, event and meeting management tool, project management software, and much more? Lars Helgeson: We started about ten years ago, with an email marketing platform called CoolerEmail.

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Xconomy

JUNE 16, 2016

What does it take to build a startup in today’s market? Put a half-dozen entry-level tech entrepreneurs together anywhere outside of the Bay Area, and it won’t take long before they start listing the local market deficiencies. In San Diego, the complaints often focus on the relative scarcity of venture capital and hometown VC firms.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

Eugene Cho is CEO of San Diego-based Echo Laboratories (www.discover-echo.com), a startup which is developing a new kind of microscope. My background is I was a sales rep in this industry for fourteen years, with Nikon. We've created an alternative, a hybrid microscope for the price of one. How did you start the company?

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

Eugene Cho is CEO of San Diego-based Echo (www.discover-echo.com), a startup which is developing a new kind of microscope. My background is I was a sales rep in this industry for fourteen years, with Nikon. We've created an alternative, a hybrid microscope for the price of one. How did you start the company?

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Xconomy

MARCH 1, 2019

biopharmaceutical industry is dealing with unprecedented threats on several fronts: public backlash against high drug prices, slowing sales, and the possibility of more government regulation. After years of boom times, the U.S.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

Petco, the privately held pet supplies company based in San Diego, said today it led a $10 million Series A financing in Los Angeles-based Petnet, a three-year-old startup developing technology-enabled pet feeders and pet food delivery service. The “SmartFeeder” ($149) is available at Amazon, BestBuy, Target, and Petco.

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Xconomy

MARCH 17, 2017

Stung by slow sales of its next-generation anti-cholesterol drug, Amgen hopes new clinical data, released this morning, will spur doctors to boost prescriptions and—perhaps more important—drive insurers to loosen their restrictions. political issue, and pricey new cholesterol drugs have been a key battleground.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

I’ll publish the final post in this series this week and then move on to my next series – sales & marketing. I’ll be covering my PUCCKA sales methodology. Examples: There is a company called GreenLink Networks based in San Diego and Philadelphia. It will be controversial – I know.

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2013

There''s been a subtle--but very significant shift--in the solar power market in recent years, particularly in California, where it''s actually cheaper in many cases to lease solar panels on your roof, than to pay the power company. But, since it''s priced against the local utility, that investors can get a 9, 10, 11, or 12 percent yield.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 14, 2016

That means in three months, Bristol has lost a third of its value, equivalent to about $40 billion in market capitalization. —Shares of San Diego-based Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN ) fell more than 32 percent after the next-gen sequencing giant slashed its revenue projections once again. Today, shares are worth just over $50.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

After a year in which Biogen’s share price has fallen by more than a third and one of its top drug prospects failed, Scangos, who has led the company since 2010, has announced plans to step down. It’s currently Biogen’s top-selling product, generating close to $2 billion in sales during the first half of 2016. [ Updated, 9:20 a.m.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 26, 2016

Mylan bumped up the price of the EpiPen 400 percent, presidential nominee Hillary Clinton responded with a tirade against drug price hikes, and—much like when Clinton railed against drug pricing last year—biotech indexes promptly plummeted more than 3 percent. It was the tweet heard around the biotech world, again.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Dave’s a great guy with a good sense of humor and a broad knowledge of the market, which is why I was excited that he could be on the show. It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns. They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g. Enter ShoeDazzle.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

Many people are too cautious in sales processes and as a result when they present their solutions they end up sounding milquetoast and undifferentiated from anybody else in the market. I recently wrote about the three rules of sales. In sales we often call these USPs (I wrote about them here: Unique Selling Propositions ).

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

For today's interview, we talked with San Diego-based ShowUHow (www.showuhow.com), a firm which is providing both content and a software platform which allows e-commerce retailers to provide video instruction guides on the products they carry. Manufacturers have quite a bit of pressure from the top end in pricing.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

We seem to receive lots of pitches from companies looking to attack the mobile market with their mobile software applications, but few who have deployed on-deck with carriers. Derrick Oien: The primary market is the operator. It all depends on the carrier and their target market. So we sell into the carriers.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

In general, M&A is a natural part of the IT security market. It’s why this market segment is so attractive to venture investors. Some of these acquisitions may carry price tags into the billions of dollars, while the vast majority will be smaller deals that bring a best-of-breed point solution into the product catalog.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. We could all do better – I’m sure.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

This morning's interview is with San Diego-based Kadonk (www.kadonk.com), a startup which is creating project management tools that work with Microsoft Project. Most companies use Microsoft Project, and although there are a bunch of other projects, Microsoft has the most market share. Thanks for sitting down with us.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 19, 2016

. —The FDA last summer approved two new cholesterol fighting drugs known as PCSK9 inhibitors, but so far the market has rejected them, resulting in paltry sales. Everyone is waiting until 2017, when huge studies of the drugs’ ability to prevent heart attacks and strokes start to provide data.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2015

Our interview this morning is with serial entrepreneur Tony Farwell , the Executive Chairman and co-founder of GovX (www.govx.com), a San Diego-based online marketplace aimed at current members of the military, veterans, and government employees, including first responders, police, and others. We have started with all U.S.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2011

That nightmare happened to Jim Carol , a serial entrepreneur who was co-founder and CEO of San Diego's PacketVideo , when his son was diagnosed with cancer. You can help by donating, but you can also go to our site, and buy what we think is going to be the best prices in the world for both new and used stuff.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

They’re also a controversial part of the national debate over high drug prices, and their increased use has put ophthalmologists in the crosshairs of insurers, the federal government, and the press. The market for AMD treatments has exploded the past several years. The amount the U.S. Medicare spent about $2.63 billion) in 2014.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 5, 2016

Then came the rumor mill: Companies may or may not be approaching Biogen about a sale, and Biogen may or may not be fielding offers. The rumors boosted Biogen’s sinking stock price nearly 10 percent. As a result, Biogen will buy the rights to nusinersen and prepare to ask regulators for marketing approval.

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Xconomy

MAY 10, 2019

The market for drugs for rare or “orphan” diseases continues to grow. An April report from Evaluate Pharma predicted sales of orphan drugs to rise 12 percent a year between now and 2024, when they will account for an estimated 20 percent of worldwide prescription drug sales. Soon there could be three.

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Xconomy

JULY 8, 2016

Drug giant Pfizer (NYSE: PFE ) also said it would abide by strict marketing guidelines for opioids, in response to a lawsuit brought against other painkiller peddlers by the city of Chicago. Drugs to treat hepatitis C have made huge leaps in effectiveness, providing cures where none previously existed, but also controversial leaps in price.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

At the gathering, Biden took verbal shots at scofflaw cancer researchers and at drug prices, while the FDA said it would take a shot at restructuring the way it evaluates oncology products. Gilead Sciences has been a target of drug-price criticism for its hepatitis C treatments, but it dialed back the price of its new one.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9 Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. Another client of Mr. Rappaports, Mich Mathews, formerly the head of marketing for Microsoft.

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Xconomy

MARCH 9, 2018

Trump administration health officials were out on the stump this week, talking tough about drug prices and healthcare value, encouraging the private sector to take the lead but letting everyone know the federal government is willing to push. Two came to market in 2015, chalking up relatively meager sales for their owners.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist.

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Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

But the company said this week that sales of Sovaldi and Harvoni, which share a common ingredient, sofosbuvir, have slowed with fewer patients starting on the drugs and prices undercut by fierce competition from AbbVie and Merck. But our minds jumped to politics. How about we start a pool? Shares closed Thursday at $9.60

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

There is no mention of drug pricing or what the administration might do about frequent price increases, such as Mylan’s EpiPen practice, that critics say are unsubstantiated and unethical. People will also be able to purchase insurance across state lines, even though the states will be in charge of regulating their markets.

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