Xconomy

JULY 26, 2018

Johnson was writing about OUTBio, a networking organization for LGBTQ members of the biopharma community. In June, Jennifer Petter, the founder and chief scientific officer of biotech startup Arrakis Therapeutics, got an e-mail from a stranger.

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Blogging Writing Organization Networking 75

Xconomy

JUNE 6, 2016

After operating in the shadows for the past 11 years, a San Diego neural technology company founded by former NASA administrator Dan Goldin is stepping into the light to introduce two commercial products intended to advance the frontier of human-machine interaction.

Artificial Inteligence 62

Artificial Inteligence San Diego CTO Hire Outsource Development 62

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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Artificial Inteligence San Diego Framework Venture Capital 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

There’s one attribute (coming soon) that I need to have in order to write a check but I don’t believe is vital for success. When Evan Rifkin of.App/Ads launched a new ad network for iPhone (and soon to be other devices) applications I knew he would have a very strong offering out of the box. Another example.

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Entrepreneur Startup SaaS San Diego 267

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I'm down here probably three or four days a week on average, and we're trying to be active, and pick off what we think are going to be the best deals here, from Santa Barbara down to San Diego. We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. It's difficult to add value to a portfolio company or entrepreneur.

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Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

However, San Diego-based Deal Current (www.dealcurrent.com) appears to have found a sustainable niche in the industry--not providing daily deals, but powering those multiplying deal sites, including a number of major newspaper groups. One of our clients, a San Diego newspaper, asked us to build a daily deal platform for them.

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Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. We've just added a layer on top of all the social networks particular to finance. You'd have to come up with an idea, gather the truth, write it, produce it, shoot it, edit it, and when you had the product, you had to figure out how to distribute it.

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Ideas Web Startup Content 248

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. Tell us a little bit about Newsforce?

News 124

News Advertising Press Sites 124

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. Tell us about that.

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Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Venture Capital 337

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. That changed very quickly. And covered we did.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

We''ve also had a pretty wide range of check writing in terms of amount. However, we''ve developed a formula of what, and how we look at deals, and have built out our own advisory network, where we use domain experts to vet deals out. Why not Los Angeles? Why not Silicon Beach?

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Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

My advice: write down your passwords in a journal and keep it in a secure location at home, such as a safe. As tempting as it is to check your bank account from your phone on vacation, save it for when you’re at home on your personal network. Banks also have automated phone systems for simple account balance questions.).

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Journal Social Media Tips Writing 64

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. Great companies like BeachMint that are growing at a rapid clip have to dig deep into their networks to meet hiring needs. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. In our regions?

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 1, 2011

So, one day Yotam and I were driving to San Diego and stuck in traffic and he asked how we could offer musicians the same sort of advertising services that I was used to using in my day job. I was the second employee at a startup affiliate network called Affiliate Fuel here in Los Angeles, handling business development.

Startup 80

Startup Design Advertising Search Engine Optimization 80

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

Last week, San Diego-based Confident Technologies (www.confidenttechnologies.com) announced that it had acquired the assets of Vidoop, and created a company focused on security and authentication of users. Social networking sites, and even the general enterprise has need for this.

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Technology Web Sites Orange County 124

socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Today, San Diego-based Metaplace (www.metaplace.com), which develops virtual world software, is announcing a funding round from Charles River Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, and high profile investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. At the high end, people can write plug-ins. Metaplace was formerly known as Areae.

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Web Blogging Web 2.0 Startup 100

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.). the world’s largest celeb endorsement network).

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78