Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2011

I went to undergrad at UCSD, which is not a place known for its Greek institutions and my father grew up in South America and had know idea what a fraternity was. I talked specifically about it in the context of raising VC / establishing credibility over on the Sales School blog where there’s a video & a transcript.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

I was at an alumni dinner at UCSD (I am on the alumni board) and a group of people were talking about how their kids use UberX to get rides home from parties at night. Case in point, “ Why Your Uber Driver Hates Uber ” is a blog post dressed up as journalism. But this is a high-class problem they solve for me. I know that.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I then worked in a computer store called Software Centre in high school and college (UCSD).

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Xconomy

MARCH 2, 2018

Amid intensifying global demand for workers who can extract insights from zettabytes of data, the University of California, San Diego held a dedication ceremony Friday for its new Halicio?lu lu Data Science Institute. The center, made possible by a $75 million gift from UC San Diego alumnus and early Facebook employee Taner Halicio?lu,

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Students and shoppers will soon be using technology developed by Aira, a San Diego startup that links vision-impaired people with “visual interpreters” via smartphone and smart glasses, to help them navigate their environments.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Liver disease is challenging for doctors because it can develop without symptoms, making diagnosis difficult without removing cells for examination. For these reasons, fatty liver disease is often called a “silent disease,” says Ariel Feldstein, a gastroenterologist at the University of California San Diego.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

UC San Diego has named Todd Hylton, a veteran tech industry manager and expert in neural-based processing technology, as executive director of its new Contextual Robotics Institute. Hylton was previously the executive vice president of strategy and research at Brain Corp.,

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2015

And actually if you have ADD you may just want to watch the videos I’ve embedded below because it’s easier to concentrate on that than reading a blog post. I can’t write a blog post and then wait 3 days to publish. Save it to Pocket, bookmark it, email it to yourself or whatever other coping mechanism you have.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 31, 2016

Tsien died on August 24 while bike-riding in Eugene, Oregon, a UCSD Health spokesman confirmed late Wednesday. Additional details about his death have not been revealed, however, and the circumstances remain unclear. He was 64, and had been a professor at the UC San Diego School of Medicine for 27 years.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

When I started blogging it was because I was inspired by Brad Feld. I always wanted to work with Brad for this reason so I started blogging because I figured if transparency worked for Brad I would try the same approach. When I was an entrepreneur there was no public information about how term sheets worked or how investors thought.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

He runs the Southern California Venture Capital Alliance (VCA) and is on the board of advisors for the venture capital fund of the UCSD Rady School of Business. He blogs here and tweets here. a network of widely read blogs including Engadget – ranked # 1 by Technorati, Joystiq, Autoblog, and Blogging Baby.

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Xconomy

JULY 8, 2020

Dave Johnson has known UC San Diego physician and cancer reseacher Thomas Kipps for nearly 20 years.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Scientists, no matter how sexy the research they’re conducting, aren’t immune from the administrative minutiae of office life. Such tasks steal time away from researchers’ main objectives. However, that wasn’t the problem San Diego startup LabFellows was looking to solve when it launched in 2014.

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Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2019

Biosensor startup Biolinq said Thursday it has raised $4.75 million from new investors, including the New York-based Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, following the results of a clinical study of its experimental biomarker monitoring device.

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Xconomy

JULY 3, 2019

[ Editor’s note: This is part of a series examining the internet’s first 50 years and predicting the next half century. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. ]

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Xconomy

JANUARY 6, 2020

In the past seven years BioIntervene has been working to develop “ultra-selective” compounds to target an adenosine receptor associated with pain relief. Now the San Diego-based biotech has $30 million and a chief scientific officer, Charles Cohen, to guide its lead compound, BIO-205, into human testing for neuropathic pain.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

First there was “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” Now four San Diego, CA-based investors are debuting “VCs in a Van,” a vehicle (no pun intended) meant to spotlight local companies ripe for funding. The show tracks the financiers—Neil Senturia, Tom Tullie, Mark Bowles, and Taner Halicio?lu—as

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Scientists gathered this week in San Diego at the annual Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease Congress are focused on ways to treat the neurodegenerative disease, a task that continues to vex those working to develop potential medicines. Others are working on an intimately related problem: early detection of the disease and related dementias.

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Xconomy

MARCH 8, 2018

Xconomy will explore the confluence of “big biology” with “big data” at our half-day forum on April 26. Just as the computing industry opened the way to technologies that enabled people to manage and analyze information in unprecedented ways, a new era in biology is opening the way for new technologies for understanding and using the code of life.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Epic Systems may soon add its name to the list of companies with virtual assistant software that people can give instructions to and get information from. But those who say, ‘Hey Epic’ to initiate a man-to-machine conversation won’t be your average consumers.

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Xconomy

APRIL 6, 2018

At Xconomy we know how hard it is to be a startup founder. We’re always meeting bootstrapping entrepreneurs who take that lean startup model a little too literally. So we have some exciting news for startup teams!

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Xconomy

APRIL 12, 2018

The countdown clock is running for Big Data Meets Big Biology , and time is almost up to grab a seat for Xconomy’s half-day forum that will convene technology and life science innovators and influencers. Register today and save with our Procrastinator’s Special while it lasts.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

A man who helped shed light—fluorescent light—on biology died far too early, at the age of 64. Nobel Prize winner Roger Tsien, a UC San Diego chemist, passed away in Oregon this week. No cause of death has been announced.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Under Bob Sullivan, the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego matured into its teenage years. Sullivan became Rady’s founding dean in 2003, ahead of the fall 2004 enrollment of the school’s charter MBA class. Rady School is marking its sweet sixteen under a new leader, Lisa Ordóñez.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

“Imagine you were a Phd wireless chip designer out of UCSD and then Qualcomm. If you click on no other links in this blog please read this one by David Brooks about why Amy Chua is a wimp and not a hard ass mom. His body language says, “how can somebody who hasn’t done what I do at the level I have be my leader?&#.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2010

Before he’s had a chance to rub the morning ink off of his thumbs I’ve read op-eds from the NY Times and Washington Post as well as scanned Techmeme and read a few blogs. He actually was the founding president of my fraternity at UCSD. Photo credit to Angi Nelson on Flickr.

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