Xconomy

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The patent holder, the University of Toronto, gave companies the right to manufacture insulin. But the university also allowed them to patent the improvements they made, which enabled them to slap higher prices on each new version. In the nearly 100 years since insulin’s discovery, no generic version has become available in the U.S.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 25, 2019

Three decades later, I’m a successful biomedical researcher and serial entrepreneur with more than 120 patents to my name, and eight successful businesses under my belt.

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Xconomy

MARCH 17, 2017

I hit the airwaves Friday morning to talk venture capital, startups, self-driving cars, and March Madness. Stocks and Jocks , a Chicago-based weekday business and sports talk radio program, invited me on the show to share my thoughts on some of the latest trends in the startup world. I also made some biased predictions about.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

However, our challenge is that there are not a lot of venture capital investors in Southern California. I think the big challenge, is to take advantage of the homogenization of the West Coast--the corridor between San Francisco and San Diego--and taking advantage of the fact that things are becoming more blended.

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socalTECH

JULY 25, 2016

We're hoping to expand in San Diego and San Francisco next. The home search portal is the buyer side, and the goal is to also take the matchmaking engine, which we have filed a patent for, and use that across the board for other applications in real estate. There are two aspects of this business.

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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. tylt labs venture capital tyltlabs investment silicon beach santa monica interview startup entrepreneur' Why not Los Angeles? Why not Silicon Beach?

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2013

One of the companies that has recently is On Ramp Wireless (www.onrampwireless.com), a San Diego company in the M2M market headed by Kevin Hell. That said, we have differentiated technology, 38 patents, of which 15 have been granted, a unique positoin, unique technology set, which really provides a huge advantage.

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Xconomy

JULY 5, 2016

It makes sense for Indiana institutions to encourage innovation that helps the world, since then-Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana worked with then-Senator Bob Dole of Kansas to create the bipartisan Patent and Trademark Law Amendments Act, or Bayh-Dole Act, in 1980.

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Xconomy

MAY 30, 2016

What, I think, is the first technology-based, early-stage venture capital fund anywhere, American Research and Development , was founded between Georges Doriot at Harvard Business School and Karl Compton, who was president of MIT at the time. It basically helped invent the ultra-filtration field. Then it got acquired by Millipore.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

That''s really where the genesis of this comes from, and we have patents around the idea of continually analyzing both structure and semistructured data from a wide variety of sources, simultaneously. It wouldn''t be covered in the Los Angeles Times, and not by the San Diego papers. That''s the unique nature of this technology.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Being first to market with a new type of drug brings advantages. The first mover sets the bar for what physicians, payers, and patients can expect of that medicine and how much it costs. It grabs market share that followers have to steal away. But the first mover isn’t infallible if someone else has something better. is counting on.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2016

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – R. Buckminster Fuller Reinvention A few months ago I was talking to executives in charge of innovation at a large U.S.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2019

We learned last week that the FDA was investigating Novartis for manipulating animal data related to its $2 million-a-dose gene therapy Zolgensma. The activity took place at AveXis, the firm Novartis bought for $8.7 billion in 2018, and Novartis reportedly knew but failed to report it to the FDA before the agency approved Zolgensma in May.

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Xconomy

MARCH 2, 2018

These days, it’s not just Snow White’s stepmother who has a mirror that talks back. Thanks to augmented reality, Internet of Things, and data analytics technologies, more of us might be confronted with so-called “smart mirrors” the next time we try on clothes or accessories in a store.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Her patented product, Swiggies (wrist water bottles), have been a NASDAQ product of the year semi-finalist and are currently sold in 24 countries. socalTECH.com is the most respected and most read sources of information on Southern California’s technology and venture capital industry. She just spoke at TED EX in San Diego.

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