Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

And while John & I have been through these phases ourselves (and have even written several blog posts on the topic like this one and John keeps a great blog with many similar concepts) we simply haven’t been running large sales teams for the past 8+ years.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2018

. “ Shipwell’s full-service, digitized brokerage platform can streamline the way many of our Anchor LPs and portfolio companies approach large-scale freight shipping,” the firm’s principal — and newest Shipwell board member — Vik Chawla wrote in a blog post announcing its most recent deal.

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Xconomy

MAY 18, 2017

Preliminary findings from an economic impact study show that genomics is emerging as a distinct innovation cluster in San Diego. The San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp. began collecting data for the report earlier this year in a bid to assess how genomics fits into San Diego’s innovation economy.

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Xconomy

APRIL 12, 2017

Lymber was barely a year old when Mindbody (NASDAQ: MB ) announced recently that it acquired the San Diego mobile app developer. Lymber, named as a 2017 Xconomy San Diego startup to watch , has developed a technology platform that enables mobile users to book openings in fitness and wellness classes.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2017

Put it in the slides: At the 2016 event, Liu & Huang overlooked the need to include some of their key findings in their slide deck. Delivery is key: The guys picked up the pace of their presentation after going too slowly in 2016. This article is courtesy of the Galvanize blog.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The San Diego-based healthtech company said Tuesday it is rolling out GreatCall Rides nationally, after testing it with customers in California, Florida, Arizona, and the Chicago and Dallas/Fort Worth areas for more than two years, since August of 2016. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

However, the San Diego-based company, which emerged from stealth mode in 2016, was guided through its early years by president and CEO Stephan Chenette. Wright was hired as chief revenue officer in August 2017. The company said he was named interim CEO in September of this year.

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Xconomy

APRIL 22, 2020

At Seattle-based Silverback, Shawver steps into a role previously held by co-founder Peter Thompson, an OrbiMed partner who, with others, launched the company in 2016. The Wednesday announcement comes three months after French firm Sanofi (NYSE: SNY ) closed its $2.5 Shawver has known Thompson for about a decade.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

billion (across 138 deals) in 2016. While we’re looking at venture deal numbers from the past year , let’s consider the education technology industry, which isn’t broken out by sector in the general reports I’ve seen. A recent study by EdSurge , an edtech information firm, shows venture funding for U.S.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Christensen made his observations during a presentation at the 2016 Contextual Robotics Forum, a recent conference at UC San Diego focused this year on “new directions in human-machine interaction.”. His talk amounted to a state-of-the-industry report on robotics, and highlighted key findings of the 107-page update of the U.S.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Boston-based Cybereason has formed a partnership with Arm, the dominant developer of computer chip architecture, which was acquired by SoftBank in 2016. Security-tech company Cybereason is announcing another boon flowing from close ties with its biggest investor, Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

Any year-end review of technology news must also include reports on Russian hacking of the 2016 election campaign, and the manipulation of social media channels to spread false and divisive political messages.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2017

billion in new commitments this year, on pace to eclipse the “already stellar” fundraising year they had in 2016, according to a new report and analysis out Thursday from Seattle-based PitchBook. billion as of year-end 2016, exceeding the levels seen at the end of. As of Aug.

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2020

In August 2016 MEI signed an alliance with Helsinn to advance the experimental drug for patients newly diagnosed with AML who are unable to receive intensive chemotherapy due to advanced age—75 years or older—or other health reasons.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 24, 2016

After being what I assume is the subject of one or more of Seth David’s emotionally charged blog posts, I’ve decided it’s time to respond. This blog post is for information purposes only and my only intention is to move forward. We would relaunch the company in 2016 as the new entity and get all our ducks in a row.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Collectively these businesses raised about $44 billion in their debuts, topping the $34 billion, $21 billion, and $40 billion raised in 2015, 2016, and 2017, respectively. So far, 127 US companies went public in the first nine months of the year and the amount they raised already topped three of the past four years.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Like Detroit-based GM (NYSE: GM ), which is shifting its attention from traditional auto manufacturing to projects like its self-driving car unit Cruise—a San Francisco startup GM bought in 2016—Volvo Cars is one of the flock of established carmakers drawn to the Bay Area to take part in its thriving mobility innovation cluster.

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Xconomy

MAY 7, 2019

Until the 2016 approval of nusinersen (Spinraza) from. Today we’re circling back to sort through the news and put it in context. SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY The treatment landscape for spinal muscular atrophy, or SMA, a rare and potentially lethal genetic disease, is about to change.

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Xconomy

APRIL 30, 2018

After demonstrating in 2016 how its synthetic biology technology could produce new biologic drugs , San Diego’s Synthorx today revealed that its lead drug candidate is an improved version of interleukin-2, an anti-cancer drug of intense commercial interest in the 1980s.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

IDbyDNA raised $9 million in 2016 in a Series A round led by Artis Ventures , a San Francisco-based. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

MARCH 23, 2017

It’s been more than a year since an infamous party with hired models in cocktail dresses captured the biotech community’s attention at the 2016 J.P. Morgan conference. There has been plenty of talk since about closing biotech’s notable gender gap. At this year’s J.P ” There has also been some action.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

Peter Csathy: I made a prediction story at the beginning of 2016, and the top two areas I indicated were interesting, were the significant consolidation in the media and technology space, and also the emergence of mainstream, virtual reality. Twitter started as a mini blogging platform, but now it also wants to become more of a media company.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Composite Capital , a Hong Kong-based investment fund started in 2016, led that round. The new Series D round of financing announced Wednesday boosts the San Diego-based company’s valuation to land it on the growing list of “unicorns”—the tech-world term coined for companies valued at $1 billion or above.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Pimavanserin was approved in 2016 as a treatment for psychosis associated with. Based on the results, the San Diego company said it would end the study early and seek a meeting with the regulator to discuss filing next year for approval in dementia-related psychosis. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 15, 2018

The San Francisco-based startup was founded in 2016 with the goal of reducing food waste, especially the $20 billion in “ugly and surplus” produce that Full Harvest, citing U.S. Full Harvest raised $2 million in seed funding last year. Environmental Protection Agency data, Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

That expanded into a 10-city tour in 2015, and a world tour in Europe and Asia in 2016, Pinnell says. Its first mission was to launch a Bay Area VR festival to showcase works in the new immersive art forms. It was a pivotal year when. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

And in thinking about where we wanted to place our 2016 internal resource investment dollars into we began to think about which services would have the highest impact on the three edges of this triangle and we recognized it was marketing. The reason that marketing resonated so much for us as a 2016 priority is: Portfolio.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2018

Much attention was focused this past year on the impact of social media on the 2016 presidential election, as reports emerged about the use of these platforms by entities linked with Russia to spread false, misleading, or inflammatory political messages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

zettabytes by the year 2016. Use internal collaboration platforms, then extend to online customers through your website, blogs, and social media. In a recent study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 81% in 2013 and will reach 1.3 Gamify: engagement to get what you pay for.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

So in February of 2016, he decided to refocus his San Francisco startup on the small, but unexpectedly profitable aspect of his service that could operate in the black. Like many tech entrepreneurs, Sean Behr had a young business that was popular with consumers, but was also losing money.

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Xconomy

MARCH 14, 2018

The Dutch biotech and its Encinitas subsidiary were both founded in 2016, but the. While Escalier Biosciences BV is based in the Netherlands, the company is managed by its subsidiary, Escalier Biosciences, based near San Diego in coastal Encinitas, CA, according to Chris Krueger, Escalier’s chief business officer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2016

It is search engines, web content, blogs, social media, e-mail direct, on one of many mobile-phone approaches? A digital marketing content path most often comes in the form of a blog, podcast, video, or newsletter. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 06/08/2016. Firing randomly to see what sticks doesn’t work.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2020

Acadia Pharmaceuticals received the FDA’s OK for pimavanserin (Nuplazid), the first drug approved to treat hallucinations and delusions associated with Parkinson’s disease , in 2016. Since then, the San Diego company has looked to expand its use into other indications, with mixed results.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Organovo CEO Keith Murphy was unavailable to discuss the company’s initiative yesterday, but he is scheduled to present an overview of the company’s efforts later today at the 2016 Cell & Gene Meeting on the Mesa. The conference is making a webcast of his presentation available here. Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

The annual total was slightly ahead of venture activity in 2016, when VCs put slightly less than $1.9 The strength of fourth-quarter deals, lifted by a $125 million financing in November for the molecular diagnostics company Progenity, brought total venture investments in San Diego to nearly $1.92 billion in 215 deals last year.

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Xconomy

MARCH 1, 2018

qster, founded in 2016 to develop technology that enables individuals to aggregate and manage all of their own personal health information, emerged from stealth mode Wednesday.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement. Social media activities span the gamut from curation to gifting, building relationships and groups, blogging, service actions, to lead conversion. The best communities then become your advocate.

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