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12 Articles match "2006","San Diego"
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Monday, March 8, 2010
Its success in New York quickly led to French Tuesdays being established in Miami in 2004, Los Angeles in 2006, San Francisco in 2007 and Paris in 2009. French Tuesdays offers contemporary men and women entrée to a network of successful individuals and a world of couture nightlife and entertainment. Frequency/Location: Once to a few times a month per city / various venues in Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Paris, San Francisco, and Sao Paulo. Send me your new, updated, or reviews of networking events and organizations. The Notable & Where I'm Going... Tell them you heard about it from Todd's blog! I'll be speaking (yes, yours truly) on “Effective Networking for Entrepreneurs” at the GroundUP Business Group 's Tuesday, March 9th 7-8:30pm, at Zephyr Coffee House, 2419 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91107 .
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
I flew from San Diego (where I was visiting for Thanksgiving) to New York to persuade investors to stick with us. I We had agreed to sell the company to Salesforce.com and between the offer in December 2006 and the closing March 27th, 2007 I focused exclusively on the sale to Salesforce.com. I Except that after the acquisition Salesforce.com required that I commute more than an hour each way from Palo Alto to San Francisco. The TechCrunch ran my article yesterday as a guest post but I wanted to have a copy here for anybody who missed it and for future readers of this blog. This
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Monday, October 19, 2009
On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. The Original Post (after the jump):
Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006)
Can Is it a long drive into the City (San Francisco) for you?” After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Today, San Diego-based Metaplace (www.metaplace.com), which develops virtual world software, is announcing a funding round from Charles River Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, and high profile investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. We left Sony in 2006 in order to do Metaplace--I'd dreamed about doing it for about ten years, and actually put together our first prototype in the spare bedroom, with my wife helping me out. We spoke with Raph Koster, the firm's CEO and founder, about the site and the new investment round. Metaplace was formerly known as Areae.
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Tuesday, June 3, 2008
It was CardioNet , which is a great company Jim Sweeney started/runs down in San Diego (and participated in OCTANe's CA Medical Device Forum in 2006) at the intersection of health care and wireless data. (Congrats, I was reading the daily Venture Wire blurb last Friday. Usually these are "quick reads" and sort of a mix between a story in the LA Times and Food and Wine, but the content in this one was particularly fascinating and alarming at the same time.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
San Diego-based InnerCool , a wholly owned subsidiary of Cardium Therapeutics, has been acquired by Royal Philips, Philips said Wednesday. InnerCool was acquired by Cardium Therapeutics in March of 2006 for around $6M, and develops and manufactures disposable catheter systems.
...Tags: According to Philips, it will pay $11.25M in an asset purchase transaction, plus the transfer of approximately $1.5M in trade payables.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
SeedTrack, building off of earlier efforts by the group's San Diego and other chapters. The San Diego branch of the Tech Coast Angels launched their own TCA Seed Track effort way back in December of 2006, initially focused on both technology and biomedical firms; the group's other arms have funded and helped to staff a number of firms patterned after the same seed stage mentoring efforts.
...Tags: The Orange County Chapter of the Tech Coast Angels is promoting a program to help jumpstart small companies, O.C. According to the O.C.
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Friday, July 10, 2009
San Diego-based Scoperta , which is developing fabless specialty steel technology utilizing scrap materials, has raised $1.4M round back in 2006 in the firm.
...Tags: out of a $1.875M round, according to a regulatory filing. Other details on the funding have not been released, however, the firm is backed by Enterprise Partners and Vista Ventures, and Drew Senyei of Enterprise sits on the firm's board of directors.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. The Original Post (after the jump):
Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006)
Can Is it a long drive into the City (San Francisco) for you?” After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
San Diego-based Qualcommm said today that it has named its join venture with Verizon Wireless, as nPhase . Qualcomm acquired the name nPhase back in 2006, when it bought the Chicago-based company of the same name. Qualcomm had said at the end of July that it was entering into a joint venture with Verizon Wireless focused on wireless communications for smart devices, with the new venture to be headed by Steve Pazol. Verizon and Qualcomm said at the time they would be joint owners in the new venture, but said they had not yet named the venture.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Founded in 2006, she called to ask me about the Tech Coast Angels' Fast Pitch . Deadline: August 22nd for the next Fast Pitch in San Diego, 5:30pm Thu October 2nd.
You've heard about a Fast Pitch, right? Those bake-offs where entrepreneurs get just 60 seconds to pitch their deal to a panel of angels and VCs. Wanna know how to set one up for your
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Frequency/Location: Multiple times a month / Pasadena, Southbay, Long Beach, Westwood, San Diego, and others regional and national locations. Frequency/Location: Varies / Varies - See above Cost: Varies Review: None Added 10/26/09 by Todd Zebert Name: LEADS Club Sites: [link] , Greater LA Clubs , Inland Empire, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties , San Diego and Orange Counties Self-description: " * The purpose of Leads Club is to assist you in getting good business referrals that will expand your business success. * This is will be a continually updating post. I'll be creating additional lists for educational , chamber of commerce, etc.
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
I flew from San Diego (where I was visiting for Thanksgiving) to New York to persuade investors to stick with us. I We had agreed to sell the company to Salesforce.com and between the offer in December 2006 and the closing March 27th, 2007 I focused exclusively on the sale to Salesforce.com. I Except that after the acquisition Salesforce.com required that I commute more than an hour each way from Palo Alto to San Francisco. The TechCrunch ran my article yesterday as a guest post but I wanted to have a copy here for anybody who missed it and for future readers of this blog. This
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