Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

I thought about a blog post I discovered via Tim Ferriss about how important it is to cultivate the first 1000 fans of your brand. When: March 11th 9am (During South by Southwest 2012). You can read it here. The hardest part about being a business owner is how to attract those initial paying customers. How: To Register, [link].

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 23, 2012

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 -- ExecTec - The Customer is Wrong! Inspired by strategicsenseinc's blog post 3 Reasons Why the Customer Is Not Always Right, I wanted to explore what happens when the customer is not right. They say the Customer is always right! But what if they are wrong? See [link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Saturday, December 1, 2012 -- Intro to the Los Angeles Startup Community. We will canvas key events/meetups to attend, people, companies, VCs, blogs, hot issues, and more. General Assembly. Sam Teller, Managing Director, Launchpad LA.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Saturday, October 13, 2012 -- Intro to the LA Startup Community. We will canvas key events/meetups to attend, people, companies, VCs, blogs, hot issues, and more. We will canvas key events/meetups to attend, people, companies, VCs, blogs, hot issues, and more. Sam Teller, Managing Director, Launchpad LA.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

started in August of 2012. Things started to slow down at that office, but around the 2012 time frame, Walmart was doubling down on their ecommerce platform. We were able to get eight, Rob was able to get five from his side, and we started Walmart in Carlsabd in August of 2012, with thirteen people. How big are you now?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

started in August of 2012. Things started to slow down at that office, but around the 2012 time frame, Walmart was doubling down on their ecommerce platform. We were able to get eight, Rob was able to get five from his side, and we started Walmart in Carlsabd in August of 2012, with thirteen people. How big are you now?

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San Diego Southern California Technology Artificial Inteligence 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

The major battle for press is a battle for “mindshare” and it’s exactly the reason I blog. Consider this blog post titled, “ Christmas 2012 Shatters More Smart Device and App Download Records.” And I’m sure it’s not lost on you that my tips and my blogging are, in fact, POV marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?) Instead of doing guest posts on TechCrunch or speaking at startup conferences, Tracy became a regular contributor on wedding and women’s lifestyle blogs.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Founded by Ara Mahdessian and Vahe Kuzoyan in 2012, ServiceTitan is very much an up-and-coming billion-dollar business that’s a family (minded) affair. And as Battery Ventures investor Sanjiv Kalevar noted in a blog post last year , the opportunity for software companies serving blue-collar workers is huge.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2012

I absolutely love attending events and shows at Club Nokia. The theater is well ventilated, the floor space is spacious, and the view is good from almost every angle of the room.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 26, 2019

Businesses have been rapidly been building up around marijuana since states began legalizing its recreational use in 2012. That’s caused by THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, the cannabis component responsible for most of marijuana’s psychological effects. More recently, CBD has been gaining in popularity as.

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Xconomy

MARCH 25, 2019

The San Diego-area medical research institute inked a similar deal with the Mayo Clinic in 2012. The partnership is part of a broader movement to accelerate the “bench to bedside” process by better integrating those in academia, government, and industry in the hopes of more rapidly pushing ahead pharmaceutical innovation.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Santa Monica-based Mahalo, the search and news site run by Jason Calacanis, has cut 10 percent of the firm's staff, Calacanis said in a post on his blog Wednesday. The cuts will give the company runway past 2012. Calacanis said that the moves were due to a "challenging economic environment."

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Fanzila , a startup that makes it easy to turn your Facebook pages into mini websites with blogs, contests, photo galleries and more, has just added ”Contact Us,” “About Us,” and RSS apps to its offering. Fanzila-powered blogs are not eligible. Offer valid until all 200 licenses are given away.

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Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2019

Founders Jared Tagney and Joshua Windmiller, who met while in grad school at UC San Diego, started the company in 2012 as Electrozyme. Biosensor startup Biolinq said Thursday it has raised $4.75 The company began focusing on the technology it is currently developing in 2015, Tagney said.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Now Loring and Andres Bratt-Leal, who joined her lab in 2012 as a post-doctoral. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Lorcaserin was approved in 2012 as a weight management therapy for use in addition to a reduced-calorie diet and exercise. The FDA said Thursday that its request for removal of the product from the market is voluntary, but Eisai has already started the process for doing so.

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Xconomy

JUNE 16, 2020

Hunkapiller has served as chief executive since 2012, when he succeeded former company head Hugh Martin , stepping into the position about 15 months after the company went public and netted about $200 million. Previously Hunkapiller, a DNA sequencing industry veteran, spent more than.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

When the FDA approved the drug in 2012, the agency was concerned about heart risks. They also evaluate how a therapy works over a longer period of time. This week, results of such a study led to the market withdrawal of weight-loss pill lorcaserin (Belviq). But the post-marketing study revealed a higher incidence of.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Since 2012 it has raised more than $50 million to bolster the development and application of its tech, which has been used by pharmaceutical and agrochemical companies, as well as by universities and hospitals across 40 countries.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Citing numbers from th ecomScore July 2012 report, the Los Angeles-based site--which is part of AtomicOnline--said it now has nearly 25 million readers. Online women's publishing site SheKnows has bumped into the 50 largest web properties in the U.S., the site said this week.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

According to the most recent study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were approximately 514,000 new businesses created per month in the US in 2012. Engage your customers through blog comments, product reviews, and personal customer service. Even the Google search engine crawlers may take up to two weeks to find you.

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Xconomy

JUNE 14, 2018

That’s the anomaly Sajith Wickramasekara was trying to correct in 2012 when he and fellow software engineer Ashu Singhal co-founded the online lab notebook startup Benchling , where he is CEO. Existing data management systems weren’t tailored for work.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Thank you to the team that had extreme success in 2012 and a more challenging year in 2013. Finally, thank you to the readers of this blog. I know your 2013 success will lead to more sustained travel in 2014. Since I can’t thank every company let me acknowledge a few in confidence. I feel confident in our 2014 plans. Best, Mark.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

It partnered with Nike in Portland, OR , on apparel-related technology in 2012 and with Barclays on fintech in 2014. In 2011, Techstars began launching accelerators that focused on startups innovating in a specific sector in partnership with big companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Occasionally on this blog I break away from industry commentary and write more broadly. The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so. It’s why I still randomly meet up with people I’ve met on Twitter or this blog. So in 2012 you’ll see me a lot more often at the Launchpad LA offices.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant buying banner ads on Facebook, or buying a position on search engine results, or sponsoring some blog entries, but these doesn’t work anymore. By some measurements Twitter was the fastest growing social network of 2012. In 2012 that number skyrocketed to 26%.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Since its founding in 2012, the firm has grown to about 200 employees across 28 countries. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 14, 2019

McLaughlin joined Silicon Valley-based Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW ) as president and CEO in 2011, ahead of its 2012 IPO. Wireless giant Qualcomm has appointed Mark McLaughlin , the former CEO of network security company Palo Alto Networks, as chairman of its board of directors. He served as the company’s top executive through June 2018.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Recently the firms two founding partners (and also Managing Partners) —  Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham  — decided to transition management of the firm to Andy Weissman (who joined in 2012) and Albert Wenger (joined in 2008 and writes one of the most thoughtful blogs in our industry ).

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2011

In the past, their reviews have been through blogs, and as you know, the second your write a blog post, it falls off a cliff. He was open to it, didn't have a blog, and is a very charismatic, budding comedian. We have someone who was commissioner of his Fantasy Football league, and also didn't have a blog.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

That was between 2010 and 2012. In 2012, we decided to pivot again, aiming at the same group of consumers, turning into Cheers, a positive social network, kind of the opposite of gripe. Fortunately, Bryan, our CTO at the time, said his wife worked with two guys who had started this thing called Flipagram in 2012.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

That was between 2010 and 2012. In 2012, we decided to pivot again, aiming at the same group of consumers, turning into Cheers, a positive social network, kind of the opposite of gripe. Fortunately, Bryan, our CTO at the time, said his wife worked with two guys who had started this thing called Flipagram in 2012.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

million since it was founded in 2012. According to a recent ScoreStream statement , San Diego’s Avalon Ventures, a longtime ScoreStream investor, led the round, and was joined by Sinclair Broadcasting, Verizon Ventures, and R/GA Ventures, the investment arm of the advertising agency R/GA.

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Xconomy

MAY 4, 2017

Carlsbad, CA-based ChromaCode was founded in late 2012 with the idea of boosting old-school molecular diagnostics instruments used in clinical diagnoses. The advent of high-throughput DNA sequencing has greatly accelerated biomedical research and discovery, and brought the cost of sequencing a whole human genome to roughly $1,000.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. I suppose I could have skipped the whole rest of the blog post and just posted that. There are 2.9 billion email accounts. billion by 2014.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

When I wrote about Lines, Not Dots (probably my most often quote blog post) I made it clear that “lines” go both ways. And a heartfelt thank you to my VC friends, lawyers and portfolio executives who have spent their personal time counseling me in 2012.

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