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31 Oct 07

Private Equity Week

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Entropic Communications Inc., a San Diego-based provider of home networking for digital entertainment, has set its IPO terms to 10 million common shares being offered at between $9 and $11 per share. It would have an initial market cap of approximately $766 million, were it to price at the high end of its range. The company plans to trade on the Nasdaq under ticker symbol ENTR, with Credit Suisse and Lehman Brothers serving as co-lead underwriters. Entropic has raised over $75 million in total VC funding since 2001, from firms like Anthem, CMEA, Comcast, Revolution, Cisco Systems, Intel Capital, Liberty Associated Partners, Mission Ventures, Motorola Ventures, Panasonic Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Time Warner and YAS Broadband Ventures. www.entropic.com

09 Oct 07

NPR : Map-Making Firms Rumored to Sell for Billions

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Map-Making Firms Rumored to Sell for Billions
all of those maps came from one of just two mapmaking companies.
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- Both of those companies now are being snatched up by bigger companies for billions of dollars.
- orange van has four digital cameras mounted on the roof. They are snapping pictures every 30 feet — recording road signs, lane markings and anything else a driver might need to know.
  
  "All this different kind of signage, on ramp, off ramp; this is all something that you may want to know about as you drive up here," says Onysko
- Tele Atlas, a company based in Belgium. It is also one of the two companies assembling a digital map covering most of the world. The other company is NAVTEQ, which is based in Chicago.
- mapmaking duopoly started to unravel last summer. The Dutch company, TomTom, which makes GPS navigation devices, offered to buy Tele Atlas for more than $2 billion.
- ell phone maker — the Finnish company Nokia — announced that it was ready to pay $8 billion for NAVTEQ.
- Nokia represents a huge potential market down the road: hundreds of millions of cell phone users.
- officials in the mapmaking industry have been speculating about the shape of their future world if both these deals go through.
  
  Many wonder whether Nokia and TomTom might restrict access to these maps, denying them to competitors.
- ompanies that operate the cell phone networks — like Verizon and Cingular — are offering mapping services, too. And they may not want their customers using Nokia phones that do the same thing, perhaps more cheaply.
- Those cellular carriers that want to provide maps, though, will have to buy them — perhaps from Nokia.

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08 Oct 07

NICTA seeks $50m for growth | Australian IT

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NICTA seeks $50m for growth
NICTA is already involved in talks with the two federal departments - Communications, IT and the Arts and Education, Science and Training - NICTA chief operating officer Phil Robertson told The Australian.
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- NICTA model involves a cash injection from the federal Government, matched in cash and kind by state governments and universities.
- NICTA is fully funded by the federal Government for its current operations to the tune of $380 million through to 2011. The partners provided a further $44 million in cash and in-kind resources during the term of the first deed. The Victorian Government and Melbourne University have announced further contributions of nearly $40 million in cash and kind to 2011.
- In July 2007 the ACT Government announced an extra $6 million for a five-year period.
- past 12 months we have already created three spin-outs
- If we can spin out one or two we will be doing our job properly."

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07 Oct 07

How to Change the World: Financial Models for Underachievers: Two Years of the Real Numbers of a Startup

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My buddy at Redfin, Glenn Kelman, decided he wanted to bare his financial soul so that other entrepreneurs could get greater insight into the witchcraft called financial modeling. In this two-part posting, he reveals his numbers and his lessons. They are eye-opening for most entrepreneurs.

02 Oct 07

Agent Video Intelligence - Advanced Video Analytics by AgentVi

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Agent Video Intelligence Inc., a New York–based developer of video intelligence and video content analysis technology, has raised $3 million in Series B funding from 21Ventures. 21Ventures has now invested a total of $13 million in the company. http://agentvi.com <http://agentvi.com/>
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Agent Vi provides pure video analytics software that delivers proven security surveillance, improves operational performance and enables critical business intelligence. Agent Vi dramatically minimizes both installation and operational costs by lowering hardware and network bandwidth requirements, making next-generation video analytics affordable for enterprise-grade applications across both public and private sectors.

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Support vector machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The model produced by support vector classification (as described above) only depends on a subset of the training data, because the cost function for building the model does not care about training points that lie beyond the margin. Analogously, the model produced by SVR only depends on a subset of the training data, because the cost function for building the model ignores any training data that are close (within a threshold $ε$ ) to the model prediction

Memory Loss & the Brain

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the only foolproof way to diagnose Alzheimer's is to autopsy the brain, looking for the clumps and tangles of abnormal protein that accumulate as the disease progresses
leading explanation for what causes Alzheimer's disease is the amyloid cascade hypothesis
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- Stringy deposits of "tau" protein, or neurofibrillary tangles, form inside brain cells, but according to the amyloid hypothesis these aren't the primary cause of the dementia.
- plaques and tangles-and therefore the disease process itself-remain invisible to standard medical imaging, but that may change
- Multiple teams of researchers from UCLA in Los Angeles to the BF Research Institute in Osaka, Japan, are racing to find a way to unmask Alzheimer's disease. They hope to do this by rendering beta amyloid plaques visible to brain-imaging technologies such as PET and MRI.
- lunk and Mathis had developed a tracer molecule that could be injected into a living person and home in on Alzheimer's plaques. Mildly radioactive carbon atoms attached to the tracer allow researchers to estimate the volume of plaque in the brain using a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner, although the view isn't sharp enough to make out individual plaques.
- All people with Alzheimer's have plaques in their brains. If you can see amyloid-beta, you may also be seeing the disease itself.
- the PET scans showed accumulations of PiB in the same regions of the brain where amyloid-beta is usually found to build up.
- created traction in the field for developing a practical tracer to image amyloid-beta with PET scanners. PiB itself is being tested in at least 18 different research centers. Other teams are developing new PET tracers known by an alphabet soup of acronyms such as FDDNP, IMPY, SB13, and BF168. Work on PiB has continued, too, because the experimental version used in the Swedish study has an important limitation: The radioactive portion of the tracer, which makes the plaques visible to PET, loses half its potency in about 20 minutes. This provides a relatively short window of time in which to make a brain scan.
- Also, only about one in 10 PET facilities have the capability to cook up the radioactive carbon tracers. Most PET scanning facilities are set up to use a radioactive tracer of fluorine atoms, with a half-life of 102 minutes-a larger window for creating a scan. And the fluorine tracer is widely available and PET scan facilities are experienced using it. Klunk and Mathis are working with GE Healthcare to develop a version of PiB with a standard fluorine tracer. The new PiB is expected to be ready for clinical trials by the end of 2006.
- Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, radiology professor Clifford Jack, Jr., M.D., working with Michael Garwood PhD at the University of Minnesota and Joseph Poduslo at the Mayo Clinic, has harnessed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to see plaques in mice bred to produce amyloid-beta in their brains.
- MRI is that it shows you actual brain structure, whereas PET measures how much radiation different regions of the brain are giving off. The strength of the radiation indicates the amount of beta amyloid plaques present. But for imaging tiny plaques, MRI's strength is also a weakness. As in photography with an ordinary camera, imaging plaques with MRI requires that the subject hold still-very, very still.
- hour and 40 minutes to obtain a decent image of plaque in the mice. Gradually, this built up enough individual snapshots to reconstruct a three-dimensional image of the plaques.
- ollaborating with scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital in Charlestown and M.I.T. in Cambridge to take PiB in a new direction. When exposed to certain wavelengths of light, PiB emits fluorescent light. This means that, theoretically, it may be possible to probe the brain with light to make images of amyloid-beta.
- ses laser light to scan living tissue at different depths. After tagging the plaques in the mice with fluorescent PiB, the multiphoton microscope produced images of individual plaques in the brains of living mice.
- To scan mouse brains, Bacskai and his team had to create "cranial windows" in the brains of the mice-literally a hole in the skull with a piece of glass cemented over it. Otherwise the laser light could not penetrate the head far enough and with enough intensity to light up the fluorescent-labeled plaques. Also, without the cranial windows, the light given off by the fluorescent plaques could get back out of the head to be converted into an image.
- But it is theoretically possible to scan through the skull, Bacskai says, if they used light farther in the infrared region of the light spectrum.
- "Amyloid imaging will facilitate the development of drugs by being able to identify people who have amyloid in their brains to start with,"

Kernel methods - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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operate in the feature space without ever computing the coordinates of the data in that space, but rather by simply computing the inner products between the images of all pairs of data in the feature space

SML Program - Statistical Machine Learning program

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learn how their environment works by analysing and understanding large sets of data
rimary areas of interest to the program are kernel methods and statistics; rapid stochastic gradient methods; reinforcement learning and planning; and bioinformatics
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- Kernels Methods are systems that describe similarities between objects, for example, the similarity of two faces or the similarity between the pen strokes used to write a letter or character.
- Support Vector Machines (SVMs) is a method of classifying data using convex optimisation methods. In particular, text classification, optical character recognition, bioinformatics, and natural language processing.
- Rapid Stochastic Gradient Methods

01 Oct 07

Corporate governance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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principal players are the shareholders, management and the board of directors
economic efficiency view, through which the corporate governance system should aim to optimize economic results, with a strong emphasis on shareholders welfare
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- The Board is now mostly chosen by the President/CEO, and may be made up primarily of their friends and associates, such as officers of the corporation or business colleagues. Since the (institutional) shareholders rarely object, the President/CEO generally takes the Chair of the Board position for his/herself (which makes it much more difficult for the institutional owners to "fire" him/her). Occasionally, but rarely, institutional investors support shareholder resolutions on such matters as executive pay and anti-takeover measures.
- CALPERS led a wave of institutional shareholder activism (something only very rarely seen before), as a way of ensuring that corporate value would not be destroyed by the now traditionally cozy relationships between the CEO and the board of directors (e.g., by the unrestrained issuance of stock options, not infrequently back dated).
- Disclosure and transparency: Organizations should clarify and make publicly known the roles and responsibilities of board and management to provide shareholders with a level of accountability. They should also implement procedures to independently verify and safeguard the integrity of the company's financial reporting. Disclosure of material matters concerning the organization should be timely and balanced to ensure that all investors have access to clear, factual information.
- Financial reporting is a crucial element necessary for the corporate governance system to function effectively. Accountants and auditors are the primary providers of information to capital market participants
- McKinsey found that 80% of the respondents would pay a premium for well-governed companies. They defined a well-governed company as one that had mostly out-side directors, who had no management ties, undertook formal evaluation of its directors, and was responsive to investors' requests for information on governance issues. The size of the premium varied by market, from 11% for Canadian companies to around 40% for companies where the regulatory backdrop was least certain (those in Morocco, Egypt and Russia).

24 Sep 07

Innovation Investment Fund Program (IIF) (Round Three) - Frequently Asked Questions

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. The calculation to measure a fund's underperformance will only be utilised after year three of

a fund's life. Provisions relating to underperformance will be included in a fund's governing

documents and will be subject to consideration by the Program Delegate.
How long do successful Fund Managers have to make investments?

A. A licensed fund will have five years after the granting of a licence to make new investments.

    Investment after that time must only be follow-on investments unless approval is granted by

    the Program Delegate under specific circumstances. The Program Delegate's decision will be

    subject to advice from the IR&D Board.
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- What is the level of carry for current funds established under the IIF Program?
  
  A. Current funds take 20 per cent carry from the 90 per cent profit allocated to private
  
  investors. As with previous rounds, this will be negotiable between the fund manager and
  
  private investors for the current round of the program.
- Can a parallel fund be set up to invest along side a fund established under the IIF
  
      Program Round Three?
  
  A. Yes. Applicants should ensure that parallel funds have adequate resources to ensure
  
      operational requirements are met. As well, appropriate conflict of interest provisions would
  
      need to be put in place between the funds.
- Funds established under the IIF Program will be managed by private sector fund managers.
  
      Each fund manager will be licensed by the Australian Government and will be subject to
  
      conditions regarding investment activities and fund operations specified in licence agreements
  
      and associated investor documents. Fund managers will be responsible for making
  
      investment decisions and will invest in companies throughout Australia.

Innovation Investment Fund Round 3 (IIF3) Now Open -- 9 November 2006

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$200 million in the 2006 Federal Budget
each successful applicant will receive a licence of up to $20 million to establish a fund, to be matched by a minimum, dollar-for-dollar investment by the private sector.
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- We’re expecting two new licences every year for five consecutive years to maintain the impetus in developing companies by addressing capital and management constraints, with the first two to be announced in 2007," Mr Macfarlane said.

Innovation Investment Fund Program (Round Two) - Eligibility Criteria

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A licensed fund must invest in eligible investee companies

Innovation Investment Fund (Round One and Two)- Interim Evaluation - Fact Sheet

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support the provision of early stage capital, including seed, start-up and early expansion stages, to new technology based firms; to facilitate the creation of a self-sustaining, early stage technology based venture capital market; to develop experienced early stage venture capital fund managers; and to establish a revolving or self-funding program.
IIF is providing $358.4 million to achieve these objectives, of which the Australian Government is contributing $220.7 million and the private sector $137.7 million
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- delivered through nine private sector venture capital funds
- one very successful exit from the internet search company, LookSmart.

16 Sep 07

A smoother ride for online games | Australian IT

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AUSTRALIAN researchers have built a prototype system for automating the control of home broadband routers to help smooth online game play.
problems facing online game players is the fluctuations and uncertainty in the speed at which traffic can get across the broadband connection from the home when more than one computer is in use.
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- Swinburne University of Technology Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures director Grenville Armitage worked on the prototype system
- Swinburne's involvement in the Smart Internet Technologies CRC
- provided $222,000 to the two-year project.
- built a system that sits inside the ISP's network and automatically detects when game traffic is going in or out of particular houses
- router at home and tell it the following traffic belongs to someone playing a game
- Spin-off research by PhD student Warren Harrop, funded by a grant of $85,000 from manufacturer Cisco Systems, is examining the potential for virtual environments, built from games engines, to monitor and manage networks in real-time.

14 Sep 07

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