This was a light week on the biotech beat, because yours truly was out climbing mountains for a couple days in the Northwest. But I’m here in SF for the Xconomy open house from 5 pm to 9 pm today. Come have a glass of wine and say hi if you can. —Affymax (NASDAQ: [[ticker:AFFY]]), … Continue reading “Affymax Isn’t Dead Yet, ZeaChem Pursues Wood Chip Ethanol, Third Rock Heads West, & More Bay Area Life Sciences News”
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Calypso Axes 15 Percent of Staff, Pares Down U.S. Sales Force for Prostate Cancer Technology
Calypso Medical Technologies, the Seattle-based maker of a device that pinpoints radiation treatments for prostate cancer patients to help reduce nasty side effects, has cut 15 percent of its workforce and reorganized its U.S. sales force, Xconomy has learned. The cutbacks, announced internally last week, were concentrated among U.S. sales reps spread around the country, … Continue reading “Calypso Axes 15 Percent of Staff, Pares Down U.S. Sales Force for Prostate Cancer Technology”
How to Avoid Common Pitfalls in Your Mobile Strategy
Mobile presents an enormous opportunity. Pick your supporting statistic—from 2013 as the tipping point for mobile to eclipse the desktop (comScore) to Gartner’s prediction that 2010 will see the mobile advertising market grow to $1.6 billion. However you want to look at it, mobile is an opportunity that can’t be missed. Unfortunately, mobile is also … Continue reading “How to Avoid Common Pitfalls in Your Mobile Strategy”
Report: Former Sirtris Execs Ordered to Stop Selling Resveratrol Dietary Supplement Online
[Updated: 12:03 pm Eastern] The former executives of Sirtris Pharmaceuticals have apparently gone off the resveratrol reservation. GlaxoSmithKline, the U.K.-based pharmaceutical giant, has ordered Christoph Westphal and Michelle Dipp to stop online sales of their dietary supplement version of resveratrol through their nonprofit venture, according to a report in TheStreet.com. Glaxo called for an end … Continue reading “Report: Former Sirtris Execs Ordered to Stop Selling Resveratrol Dietary Supplement Online”
Former Sirtris Execs Sell Resveratrol Via New Nonprofit, Dicerna Closes $25M Deal, ViThera Combats Gut Disease With Engineered Bacteria, & More Boston-Area Life Sciences News
[Updated 8/13/2010 9:30 EST. See below.] New England’s biotech and healthcare sector yielded a number of interesting stories this week. —Joanna Horobin, CEO of Syndax Pharmaceuticals, confirmed that the Waltham, MA-based cancer-drug developer has raised $6 million in a convertible debt financing round planned to total $7 million. The new funds will support a clinical … Continue reading “Former Sirtris Execs Sell Resveratrol Via New Nonprofit, Dicerna Closes $25M Deal, ViThera Combats Gut Disease With Engineered Bacteria, & More Boston-Area Life Sciences News”
Highland Capital Leads $7.5 Million Series B Round for Group Payments Startup WePay
Lexington, MA-based Highland Capital Partners is the lead investor in a $7.5 million series B round for WePay, the group payments startup that emerged from the Mountain View, CA-based Y Combinator startup incubator last year. WePay co-founders Rich Aberman and Bill Clerico confirmed news of the funding round, which was first reported tonight by the … Continue reading “Highland Capital Leads $7.5 Million Series B Round for Group Payments Startup WePay”
Prometheus Labs Updates its IPO Filing
San Diego-based Prometheus Laboratories, a specialty pharma and diagnostics company, has filed an amendment to its plans for an initial public offering, which has been in registration for nearly three years. The regulatory filing offers a wealth of new insights into the company. Prometheus says it generated first-half profits of $28.9 million and $259.6 million … Continue reading “Prometheus Labs Updates its IPO Filing”
Put Xconomy San Francisco’s Open House on Your TGIF To-Do List
Being new to the neighborhood here in the Bay Area, we thought it was time to have a little housewarming. So as we noted a few days ago, we’re inviting all fans and friends of Xconomy San Francisco to an open house tomorrow night (that’s Friday, August 13). The festivities start at 5:00 p.m. We’re … Continue reading “Put Xconomy San Francisco’s Open House on Your TGIF To-Do List”
Trubion Pharmaceuticals Gets Acquired by Emergent BioSolutions for $97M Upfront
[Updated: 2:25 pm Pacific] Trubion Pharmaceuticals, a one-time highflier in Seattle’s biotech community, said today it is getting acquired for less than $100 million upfront. The buyer is Rockville, MD-based Emergent BioSolutions (NYSE: [[ticker:EBS]]). Shareholders in Trubion (NASDAQ: [[ticker:TRBN]]) will get a total of $96.8 million in an upfront payment from Emergent, plus as much … Continue reading “Trubion Pharmaceuticals Gets Acquired by Emergent BioSolutions for $97M Upfront”
Third Rock Ventures, Firm With Hunger for Audacious Biotech Ideas, Sets up SF Shop
Boston’s Third Rock Ventures, the relatively young firm with an appetite for investing in some of the most disruptive ideas in biotech, is opening up a new office in San Francisco’s Mission Bay district. Third Rock principal Jake Bauer is moving to San Francisco, and will be joined by another partner at the firm. The … Continue reading “Third Rock Ventures, Firm With Hunger for Audacious Biotech Ideas, Sets up SF Shop”
SonoSite’s Chairman, Kirby Cramer, Retires to ‘Refresh’ Board With New Blood
Kirby Cramer, one of the most successful all-around life sciences executives in the Northwest, said today he’s retiring after 12 years as the chairman of the board of SonoSite (NASDAQ: [[ticker:SONO]]), the maker of portable ultrasound machines. Cramer, 74, has been SonoSite’s chairman since the Bothell, WA-based company was originally spun off from ATL Ultrasound … Continue reading “SonoSite’s Chairman, Kirby Cramer, Retires to ‘Refresh’ Board With New Blood”
If You’re Just Joining Us: Eight 1/2 Weeks of Bay Area Innovation Stories, Xconomy Style
We’re still pretty new to the Bay Area, having turned on our San Francisco site just eight weeks ago Monday, on June 14. Our web stats tell us that quite a few of the people who visit every day are arriving at the site for the first time. So as a quick introduction, I thought … Continue reading “If You’re Just Joining Us: Eight 1/2 Weeks of Bay Area Innovation Stories, Xconomy Style”
Former Sirtris Execs’ Nonprofit Starts Selling Resveratrol with Potential Anti-Aging Effects Online
[Updated and clarified. 8/12/10, 7:25 pm Eastern time. See below.] Cambridge, MA-based Sirtris Pharmaceuticals made international headlines over the past few years for developing drugs based on the anti-aging effects of the red wine chemical resveratrol. Now that the company has been part of London-based drug giant GlaxoSmithKline for more than two years, former Sirtris … Continue reading “Former Sirtris Execs’ Nonprofit Starts Selling Resveratrol with Potential Anti-Aging Effects Online”
CareFusion Trims Workforce, Undeterred Ramius Still Wants to Buy Cypress Bio, Biotech Entrepreneurs Want “Virtual Incubator,” & More San Diego Life Sciences News
There wasn’t a lot of life science news over the past week, but what we had was pretty interesting. Judge for yourself. —There’s a cat-and-mouse game underway between New York’s Ramius Value and Opportunity Advisors and San Diego’s Cypress Bioscience (NASDAQ: [[ticker:CYPB]]). Ramius, which offered $160 million to acquire Cypress last month, renewed its call … Continue reading “CareFusion Trims Workforce, Undeterred Ramius Still Wants to Buy Cypress Bio, Biotech Entrepreneurs Want “Virtual Incubator,” & More San Diego Life Sciences News”
TradeStone’s Software Helps Retailers Pump Out Product Lines More Rapidly, Looks to Help Add Consumers to the Design Process
Boston is well known for its cluster of companies developing software for computer-aided design (CAD), and managing the lifecycle of a particular product (PLM). But Sue Welch says there’s a need for companies managing the development of not just individual products, but entire lines of merchandise. That’s the hole she’s looked to fill with her … Continue reading “TradeStone’s Software Helps Retailers Pump Out Product Lines More Rapidly, Looks to Help Add Consumers to the Design Process”
Montgomery Says Goodbye Gilead, Kaleetan’s Plan to Be the Next Dendreon, Calypso’s CEO Exit, & More Seattle-Area Life Sciences News
This week’s roundup is short and sweet, because, as you Tweeps out there know from following me on Twitter, I took a few days off to summit Mt. Baker and Mt. Hood with an old college buddy. —Before I headed to the wilderness with no BlackBerry access, I broke the story on Bruce Montgomery‘s decision … Continue reading “Montgomery Says Goodbye Gilead, Kaleetan’s Plan to Be the Next Dendreon, Calypso’s CEO Exit, & More Seattle-Area Life Sciences News”
Inside the Babson College Summer Venture Program—A Student’s Perspective
For 10 weeks this summer, I was a student participant in the Summer Venture Program (SVP) at Babson College. When I brought my company, Insite Motion Media, into the program, I was convinced I had a well-established, linear path to travel to continue building it successfully. What I found instead were many elements of my … Continue reading “Inside the Babson College Summer Venture Program—A Student’s Perspective”
Arbor Networks Acquisition Is a Tale of Two Cities—and a Strategic Move Into Wider World of Wireless
If Arbor Networks were a tree, its roots would be in Michigan. Its branches and leaves (and some of its caretakers) would be in Massachusetts. And its proud new owners would be in Texas and Washington, DC—with a lot to live up to. Earlier this week, Chelmsford, MA-based Arbor Networks, a maker of software for … Continue reading “Arbor Networks Acquisition Is a Tale of Two Cities—and a Strategic Move Into Wider World of Wireless”
Marginize, a TechStars Firm, Raises $650K to Show What People Are Saying About Websites
Score one for the social Web. Cambridge, MA-based Marginize, an Internet startup led by entrepreneur Ziad Sultan, has closed its first round of venture funding, worth $650,000, to pursue a rather intriguing idea. The company wants to create a parallel, “augmented” version of the Web that lets you see what everyone is saying about any … Continue reading “Marginize, a TechStars Firm, Raises $650K to Show What People Are Saying About Websites”
ISE Corp., Maker of Heavy Duty Hybrid Electric Drive Systems, Files for Bankruptcy Reorganization
Poway, CA-based heavy-duty hybrid-electric drive systems maker ISE Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization yesterday in San Diego—less than six months after the 15-year-old company went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The company makes hybrid-electric drive trains and energy storage systems for buses and other heavy-duty vehicles. In a statement issued yesterday, the … Continue reading “ISE Corp., Maker of Heavy Duty Hybrid Electric Drive Systems, Files for Bankruptcy Reorganization”
A123Systems Spins Off New Battery Firm, Drops Out of Chrysler Deal, Posts Quarterly Loss
A123Systems’ $370 million IPO last September was the shot heard around the world—at least the alternative-energy world. I can personally attest to the fact that energy storage and electric vehicle companies from coast to coast were following the Watertown, MA-based battery maker’s performance very closely. Now they have some new things to chew on. Late … Continue reading “A123Systems Spins Off New Battery Firm, Drops Out of Chrysler Deal, Posts Quarterly Loss”
Three More Michigan Startups Get Microloans, Bringing Companies $1.4M In First Year
Three Michigan companies have received a combined $140,000 through the Michigan Microloan Fund program, managed by the Ann Arbor SPARK business incubator. This latest round means the program has invested a total of more than $1.4 million in 39 companies since it was started in July 2009. Microloans range from $10,000 to $50,000 and are … Continue reading “Three More Michigan Startups Get Microloans, Bringing Companies $1.4M In First Year”
InDinero Co-founder Sees “Humungous” Market in Small Business Expense Tracking
As the summer term for Paul Graham’s Y Combinator incubator program builds up to its climax—“Demo Day” pitches to investors on August 24—Xconomy San Francisco is profiling selected “YC S10” startups, beginning with inDinero. Jessica Mah had a problem. She was running a managed hosting company, renting Web server space to small businesses. Demand was … Continue reading “InDinero Co-founder Sees “Humungous” Market in Small Business Expense Tracking”
Stealthy Mercator, Founded by Biogen Idec Veterans, Raises $2M to Attack Cancer
[Updated, 8/12/10, 10:15 am Eastern time. See below] Mercator Therapeutics has emerged from stealth mode, but just a bit. The Wellesley, MA-based biotech startup has raised $2 million in seed funding from angel backers to gain a license to its technology and do early research in cancer, CEO Chris Guiffre told me this morning via … Continue reading “Stealthy Mercator, Founded by Biogen Idec Veterans, Raises $2M to Attack Cancer”
Insights From St. Bernard’s CEO on Red Condor Acquisition
When San Diego’s St. Bernard Software announced last week that it was acquiring the assets of Rohnert Park, CA-based Red Condor, CEO Lou Ryan was not available to explain the deal, which was a somewhat-involved transaction. When I finally caught up with Ryan by telephone, he explained that in addition to buying Red Condor’s e-mail … Continue reading “Insights From St. Bernard’s CEO on Red Condor Acquisition”
McKinstry Innovation Center Cozies into Position as Cleantech ‘Accelerator’, Director Elsa Croonquist On What’s Next
Perched atop two floors of parking on the McKinstry campus, the Seattle-based consulting, construction, and energy firm has built the first real space of its kind dedicated entirely to fostering the local cleantech industry. The McKinstry Innovation Center is fast becoming a 24,000-square-foot oasis for up-and-coming clean energy startups. Everything about this place, from the … Continue reading “McKinstry Innovation Center Cozies into Position as Cleantech ‘Accelerator’, Director Elsa Croonquist On What’s Next”
Dicerna Pharma Gets $25M Boost to Develop Next-Gen Gene Silencing Drugs
Dicerna Pharmaceuticals has replenished its war chest. The Watertown, MA-based developer of gene-silencing drugs has raised $25 million in its Series B round of financing to advance its research. It’s a touchdown for Doug Fambrough, who said he made closing this funding round his first major priority when he took over as the firm’s chief … Continue reading “Dicerna Pharma Gets $25M Boost to Develop Next-Gen Gene Silencing Drugs”
San Diego’s Scientist-Entrepreneurs Look to “Virtual Incubator” to Help Life Sciences Startups
A grassroots group of local life sciences entrepreneurs—frustrated by their inability to get the resources they need to start new companies—has formed a working group to develop a “virtual incubator” to help seed-stage biotech startups get established in San Diego. Scott Struthers, a co-founder of the San Diego Entrepreneurs Exchange (SDEE), which was formed by … Continue reading “San Diego’s Scientist-Entrepreneurs Look to “Virtual Incubator” to Help Life Sciences Startups”
Kendall Square Wants an Entrepreneurial Walk of Fame—and So Should Every Innovation Hub
Local legends Matt Damon and Ben Affleck rose from the bowels of Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (the high school’s drama department really is in the basement) to become international movie stars—and Damon was chosen three years ago to get a star along the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame. But the business leaders who have … Continue reading “Kendall Square Wants an Entrepreneurial Walk of Fame—and So Should Every Innovation Hub”
Blue Cod and Viridity Bag $8M Apiece, Aprendica and Arbor Networks Acquired, & More Boston-Area Deals News
New England’s tech and life sciences firms had a busy week raising money and inking acquisition deals. So much for the summer slow-down! —Blue Cod Technologies announced it has raised $8 million in a follow-on financing led by General Electric Pension Trust. Edison Venture Fund, a previous investor in the Marlborough, MA-based provider of outsourcing … Continue reading “Blue Cod and Viridity Bag $8M Apiece, Aprendica and Arbor Networks Acquired, & More Boston-Area Deals News”
Photos from the Xconomy H-O-R-S-E Tourney, and Our First Champion (*)
All in all, I’d say the first Xconomy H-O-R-S-E basketball tournament, held last Friday afternoon, was an unqualified success. Not for my Xconomy team (Xconomy I), which flamed out in the first round—some guy with the initials GH couldn’t buy a bucket—but rather for the couple dozen folks who showed up from the local startup … Continue reading “Photos from the Xconomy H-O-R-S-E Tourney, and Our First Champion (*)”
Cray, Nvidia Team Up on $25M Defense Grant to Develop Graphics-Based Supercomputers
Seattle-based supercomputing company Cray (NASDAQ: [[ticker:CRAY]]) is part of a team that has been awarded a $25 million U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) grant for the further development of supercomputer technology. The team, led by graphics processing unit (GPU) developer Nvidia (NASDAQ: [[ticker:NVDA]]), also includes Oak Ridge National Laboratory and six U.S. universities. … Continue reading “Cray, Nvidia Team Up on $25M Defense Grant to Develop Graphics-Based Supercomputers”
Is Boston Becoming a Hub for Female Tech Entrepreneurs? Maybe, and Here’s Why
When most people think of the New England tech startup scene, they probably don’t think of a bunch of women. Like most places I’ve visited or lived in, the Boston technology community tends to feel pretty male-dominated. But that might be changing fast. As my colleague Bruce reported today, a CB Insights demographic survey of … Continue reading “Is Boston Becoming a Hub for Female Tech Entrepreneurs? Maybe, and Here’s Why”
LearnBoost Unveils Free Online Gradebook for Teachers
Last month I met with Rafael Corrales, CEO of a small San Francisco startup called LearnBoost, and got the inside story about the company’s audacious plan to help teachers and schools by bringing Apple-style elegance and simplicity to the educational software market. Today LearnBoost took the lid off the first component of its grand plan: … Continue reading “LearnBoost Unveils Free Online Gradebook for Teachers”
Vertex’s Telaprevir Clears Hurdle, Could Halve Treatment Times for Hepatitis C
[Updated. 8:55 am Eastern time. See editor’s note.] Vertex Pharmaceuticals’s (NASDAQ:[[ticker:VRTX]]) lead drug candidate for hepatitis C infection has passed another test. The Cambridge, MA-based company, which has West Coast operations in San Diego, says today that it now has proof that its drug in combination with standard therapies can wipe out the chronic liver … Continue reading “Vertex’s Telaprevir Clears Hurdle, Could Halve Treatment Times for Hepatitis C”
Nanosys Raises $25 Million, Unveils Three-Pronged Deal with Samsung
Palo Alto, CA-based Nanosys, the nanotechnology startup that has struggled to regain altitude after a high-flying debut in 2001, is switching on the afterburners this week. To finance a move to a larger facility where it will have more space to manufacture its nano-engineeered materials for lighting and digital displays, the company is about to … Continue reading “Nanosys Raises $25 Million, Unveils Three-Pronged Deal with Samsung”
New Startup ViThera Labs Aims “Weaponized” Bacteria Drugs at Gut Diseases
Johannes Fruehauf says he started plotting his next move last fall after diminished capital reserves at his previous employer, Cequent Pharmaceuticals (now part of Marina Biotech), led the company to shrink its research staff from 24 people to six. Fruehauf, an inventor of Cambridge, MA-based Cequent’s gene-silencing technology, decided he wanted to launch his own … Continue reading “New Startup ViThera Labs Aims “Weaponized” Bacteria Drugs at Gut Diseases”
Lisa Suennen, Voice of Venture Valkyrie, Has No-Nonsense Take on Health IT
There are a slew of venture capitalists who populate the blogosphere with their opinions and pearls of wisdom on, well, just about everything. But many of those VC bloggers—predictably—come from the tech side of the house. Fewer are blogging about healthcare investing. And fewer still are women. Now enter Lisa Suennen, a managing member of … Continue reading “Lisa Suennen, Voice of Venture Valkyrie, Has No-Nonsense Take on Health IT”
Zulily Raises $6M More, Korrio Nabs $3.3M for Youth Sports Automation, & More Seattle Area Deals News
Although it’s been another slow week for Seattle-area technology deals, there have been a few notable financings and one pretty sizable acquisition. Of the three deals this week, two fell into the online space, while the third was in the security and software sector. Take a look at this week’s highlights: —Seattle-based private-sales website Zulily … Continue reading “Zulily Raises $6M More, Korrio Nabs $3.3M for Youth Sports Automation, & More Seattle Area Deals News”
Who Are You? Part 2: Gender and Education Backgrounds of Venture-Backed Internet Startups
As we reported last week, there wasn’t much to surprise the sociologists of innovation in Part 1 of the data CB Insights gleaned about the race, age, and experience of the founders at 165 Internet startups that raised venture capital funding during the first half of 2010. But there are some interesting, and perhaps unexpected, … Continue reading “Who Are You? Part 2: Gender and Education Backgrounds of Venture-Backed Internet Startups”
Teachers Explore How to Integrate Computer Science into K-12 Curriculum at UW Conference
Although computer science may be one of the most applicable academic tracks to pursue today, teachers are having a hard time convincing students—and administrators—that the subject is worthy of a place in K-12 curriculum. Figuring out how to entice student, parents, and school districts to embrace and support computer science curricula in public education was … Continue reading “Teachers Explore How to Integrate Computer Science into K-12 Curriculum at UW Conference”
Mark Hurd’s Real Legacy at Hewlett-Packard: Reverticalization
The somewhat lurid circumstances surrounding Mark Hurd’s resignation Friday as chief executive of Palo Alto, CA-based Hewlett-Packard have left plenty of room for gossip. Hurd stepped aside after a board investigation into a sexual harassment claim by a former marketing contractor; the board cleared Hurd of the harassment allegation, but found that he’d fudged expense … Continue reading “Mark Hurd’s Real Legacy at Hewlett-Packard: Reverticalization”
MedNetworks Connects with $5M from Excel Venture Management
Social networks have been growing in popularity among patients and doctors in recent years as a means to share and gather important information from their peers. Now MedNetworks, a Newton, MA-based startup, has nailed down $5 million in a Series A funding round from Excel Venture Management to commercialize technology that makes data generated from … Continue reading “MedNetworks Connects with $5M from Excel Venture Management”
Kaleetan Seeks to Stand on Dendreon’s Shoulders, With Immune Therapy for Cancer
Lots of biotech companies around the country are grasping for the title of “the next Dendreon,” including one fledgling startup here in Seattle, Kaleetan Pharmaceuticals. Dendreon (NASDAQ: [[ticker:DNDN]]) has become one of the nation’s hottest biotech stories of the year, after it made history in April, winning the first FDA approval for a prostate cancer … Continue reading “Kaleetan Seeks to Stand on Dendreon’s Shoulders, With Immune Therapy for Cancer”
Angels Launch New Seed Capital Fund, DoCoMo Acquires PacketVideo, St. Bernard Gets Red Condor, & More San Diego BizTech News
A couple of deals topped the tech news last week, but the development most worth watching might be the formation of a new type of fund by Southern California’s Tech Coast Angels. Find out why, and catch up on the rest of San Diego’s tech news here. —The angel investor group Tech Coast Angels is … Continue reading “Angels Launch New Seed Capital Fund, DoCoMo Acquires PacketVideo, St. Bernard Gets Red Condor, & More San Diego BizTech News”
Travel App Developer Mobiata Finds the Correct Culture for Startup Innovation in Ann Arbor
Minneapolis, like other Midwestern cities, is used to losing technology startups to Silicon Valley. But when Ben Kazez packed up Mobiata, his company that develops mobile software apps for travelers, and made a kind of lateral move to Ann Arbor, MI, it made some in the Minnesota media do a double-take. Now, a year after … Continue reading “Travel App Developer Mobiata Finds the Correct Culture for Startup Innovation in Ann Arbor”
Affymax Lives to Fight Another Day, In Bid to Challenge Amgen’s Monopoly
Affymax, as one analyst put it last week, is “not dead yet.” That may not sound like a ringing endorsement, but given what has happened to the Palo Alto, CA-based biotech company (NASDAQ: [[ticker:AFFY]]) this summer, it has to count as some kind of progress. Affymax spent years of concentrated effort, and hundreds of millions … Continue reading “Affymax Lives to Fight Another Day, In Bid to Challenge Amgen’s Monopoly”
ThingMagic’s Rollercoaster Journey—From the Internet of Things to the Calculus of Reality
ThingMagic is a 10-year-old technology company whose core idea seems as fresh today as when it first started. The bad news: that means it may have been too far ahead of its time. The good news: times are changing. The Cambridge, MA-based firm was founded by five MIT Media Lab alums, who had the goal … Continue reading “ThingMagic’s Rollercoaster Journey—From the Internet of Things to the Calculus of Reality”
Angel Investing: The Most Satisfying Experience You’ll Ever Have
[Editor’s Note: On July 29, leading Silicon Valley angel investor Ron Conway, the founder of SV Angel, gave the opening talk at AngelConf, an afternoon conference for budding angel investors sponsored by the Y Combinator startup incubator program in Mountain View, CA. The following is an edited transcript of Conway’s talk, published by permission.] I’m … Continue reading “Angel Investing: The Most Satisfying Experience You’ll Ever Have”
IPOs Go Up, LinkedIn Finds a Nice Fit, Google Goes for a Slide, & More Bay Area BizTech News
Last week was another busy one for venture fundraising and acquisitions in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Fortunately, I got a lot of help this week from my San Diego colleague Bruce Bigelow, who reported on several stories affecting the Bay Area. —On Friday, Google confirmed earlier press reports that it had acquired San Francisco-based … Continue reading “IPOs Go Up, LinkedIn Finds a Nice Fit, Google Goes for a Slide, & More Bay Area BizTech News”