Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

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. Measuring is all about return-on-investment (ROI).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. Not to mention USV’s investments in MongoDB (10Gen), Lending Club and a host of others. You need to invest in good markets and bad.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 28, 2019

Venture capital firms invest in potentially disruptive technologies with the hope of profit, then keep watch for further advances that could overtake their existing portfolio companies. Palo Alto, CA-based Norwest weathers the uncertainties of technology and the economy with an investing strategy. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

APRIL 10, 2018

million into 37 startup companies throughout San Diego County during the first three months of 2018, maintaining roughly the same level of venture funding seen in recent quarters, according to the Venture Monitor Report. The amount of capital invested in the San Diego area was up slightly from the $541.2

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Xconomy

APRIL 9, 2018

companies during the first three months of 2018—marking the strongest single quarter in at least a dozen years, according to the Venture Monitor Report released today by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). billion that VCs invested in the first quarter of 2017. billion into U.S.

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Xconomy

MAY 9, 2019

According to IPO research firm Renaissance Capital , 47 IPOs have priced so far this year across all sectors, down 27 percent compared to the same period in 2018. Five biotechs priced their IPOs and at least one more is coming. Just as last year, healthcare IPOs lead the way. Here’s a look.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The San Diego biotech company, which is testing an antibody discovery platform intended to speed products to patients with cancer and pancreatitis, said Thursday it has retained a local investment banking firm, Objective Capital Partners, to guide its sale. million in the first nine months of 2018 and $22.8 As of Sept.

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Xconomy

JULY 18, 2019

The Denmark-based biopharmaceutical company is a large, international organization whose commercialized products contributed to its $455 million-plus in 2018 revenue. . —Genmab is different from the other life science companies that joined the public markets this week. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2019

million in seed—in 2018 to advance its growing suite of products, digitized. The team at Trust & Will, a San Diego-based startup founded in October of 2017, is betting that a good chunk of those people would shell out some money to outline an estate plan if the process were cheaper and easier.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Here are some of the key specifics for credibility and acceptance as you create and use these metrics: Itemize investment levels from you, insiders, and family. Professional investors expect traction discussions to begin with the size of your own investment, in money and time, plus support received from friends and family.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Then, enjoy what remains of 2018. So while it might be nearly time to board your plane (or hop in the car, or simply spend a little time away from your screens), first catch up on recent local biotech happenings.

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Xconomy

APRIL 27, 2018

A Senate committee voted unanimously to send the “Opioid Response Act of 2018” to the chamber floor for a vote. This week, members of Congress exercised a bipartisan effort in both chambers to advance dozens of measures proposing various approaches to fighting the opioid epidemic. Some measures address the crisis by expanding treatment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2018

I’m talking about using the new digital channels of blogging, social media, and influencers more creatively to “pull” people to your solution, and make them advocates. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/10/2018. This is the new art and science of marketing. Keeping up with this change is critical to your survival.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Old-fashioned marketers feel the pressure to produce an immediate return on investment (ROI), and prefer the billboard approach to closing. If, for example, you’re writing a blog post aimed at professional investors, you don’t need to stop and explain what an entrepreneur is to them. Do less pitching and more teaching.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 28, 2017

I'd see these wedding blogs, but I thought, there has got to be more. He and I connected, and walked through PartySlate and what we were doing, and he immediately said he wanted to invest and become an advisor to the company. That is all gearing up for a Series A funding, which will happen in the summer of 2018.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Proceeds will be used to advance Metacrine’s lead drug candidate, MET409, into first-in-human studies during the first half of 2018. Initial studies should be completed by the end of the year, the San Diego-based company said.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Station F is the brainchild of Xavier Neil, a tech billionaire and serial entrepreneur, who invested millions in acquiring and refitting the building. In 2018, Station F plans to add 100 shared apartments for entrepreneurs and a sports center 10 minutes away from Campus. Highlights of the space: 34,000 square meters/ 366,000 sqft.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

We love capital efficiency until we love land grabs until we abhor over funding until we get huge payouts and ring the bell for more funding until we attract every non-VC on the planet to invest in startups until it crashes and we start the cycle all over again none the wiser. blog here ). April 30th, 2018.

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Southern California Edison Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, US Government agencies suffered 1108 data breaches between 2005 and 2018 1. Wavelength services provide significant configurability benefits for small to mid-sized agencies and businesses, without specialized in-house management requirements or an extensive financial investment by the customer.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2020

If you’re keeping score, that compares with 59 approvals in 2018 and 46 in 2017. The decisions covered insomnia, migraine, and several different forms of cancer. The FDA’s final tally for the year totaled 48 new drug approvals.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2019

Soaring prices of Bitcoin and other so-called digital tokens were attracting investments from speculators hoping to get rich quick—but these virtual coin values were also known to drop just as suddenly, the US Treasury Department’s Financial Stability Oversight Council noted.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

—Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, a pediatrician, said the Zuckerberg-Chan Initiative, a holding company for their Facebook fortune, would invest $3 billion to “cure, prevent, or manage all diseases” by the end of the century. —The Medicines Co.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The 2018 Winter Olympics will end soon, and we did not skate through these games without a performance-enhancing drug allegation rearing its ugly head. This time, the drug in question was meldonium (Mildronate), a product widely available over the counter in Russia and some Eastern European countries.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 15, 2019

As Xconomy’s editors looked back at the year just passed, we asked technology leaders to comment on the trends they’d observed in 2018, and the developments they expected in 2019.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 4, 2019

In 2018, geopolitical events—in particular, President Donald Trump’s hard-line stances on trade and immigration, and the repeal of net neutrality rules—were top of mind for several business executives we interviewed recently.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

First it was street-style photography, then came the launch of her popular fashion blog WeWoreWhat. We are in phase three of the influencer economy,” Bain Capital Ventures senior principal Jamison Hill, who led the firm’s investment in the influencer shoutout marketplace Cameo , tells TechCrunch.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

The team leader told Reuters that clinical trials could start in 2018. —A month after Cambridge, MA-based Merrimack Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: MACK ) restructured and its CEO resigned , Reuters reported that the company has hired investment bankers to explore a possible sale. DEALS, DELAYS, AND DATA….

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