Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

” Your VC friends have been egging you on. You have a runway that would make San Diego Airport’s look long. Yet the best and the strongest founders are able to overcome the stresses, the self-doubt, the sacrifices and the risks and they press on with optimism every day anyways. ” “True. It was not.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

However, while specific details in the press may be shocking, the problems were predictable: Bad behavior often follows when there is an imbalance in power, and in the past few years, the heat of the tech market has created an environment where historical lessons of conduct and oversight were ignored for the sake of expediency.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

While other groups tested other fish oils and found no evidence of concrete cardiovascular benefits , Amarin pressed on with a massive study, bleeding cash for years. But Amarin didn’t have the evidence that lowering triglycerides with fish oil would really help people. Sales lagged. Amarin’s shares sank. The strategy seems to have paid off.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

The second thing I learned as a VC, is that data paralyzes people. VC is definitely a dream job. So, to answer the question of why I'd leave full time venture capital and become a CEO, it's because I saw that we can take people, and in the scope of a year, really help them how to optimize their health. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. The next two deals were companies in a company in San Diego, Verve Wireless, and a local company here called GumGum.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

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. I did programming for the career center at UC San Diego, trying to build programs for the career center.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

percent of partners in traditional VC firms were women, Liftstream found. McDonald deferred questions about that goal and his firm’s contributions to a spokeswoman, who did not reply by press time. An advisory board of women is meant to hold the investment bank accountable.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get). We can be blunt but we believe that builds healthier relationships.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 20, 2016

BlackThorn’s contribution to the toolkit is called Inform, a method of, as it says in a press release, “linking brain physiology to behavior.” “There is no such toolkit for [neurobehavioral diseases] yet,” says Scott Forrest (pictured), BlackThorn’s VP of corporate development. It’s emerging from clinical research.”.

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Xconomy

JUNE 24, 2016

—The Associated Press reported that surgeon Paolo Macchiarini faces involuntary manslaughter charges in Sweden related to two patients who died after surgeries he conducted to implant artificial tracheas to replace their damaged windpipes. The White House had requested $1.9 Democrats say they will filibuster in the Senate.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Venture capital. The San Diego-based company is one of 53 California companies ranked on the Fortune 500, 22 of which are SoCal companies. Arguably the greatest research and development nexus in the United States rests in the area spanning San Diego to Los Angeles. Editor’s picks. Featured stories.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Plus, San Diego and all of Southern California there’s a lot of opportunities in the marketing space, so we really like that as well. We need an IPO and we some real international/national press pointed on the technology scene in Southern California. That’s the first thing. Plus, sunshine.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. I was on an airplane 2-3 times / week meeting potential customers, investors, employees, business partners and the press. We found a way to get a round of venture capital closed after all of this.

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