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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

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Xconomy San Diego. San Diego ›. View More in San Diego ›. San Francisco ›. View More in San Francisco ›. Innovation Report Shows San Diego Added 695 Tech Jobs at End of 2011. San Diego Events ›. San Francisco Events ›. San Diego Home.

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Avalon Ventures Raises A New $200 Million Fund And Gets A New Website

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I’ve gotten to know several of Rich’s partners over the past few years and recently had a wonderful Do More Faster book tour dinner hosted at Avalon’s San Diego office by Kevin Kinsella (a fellow MIT-grad turned VC.). In conjunction with their financing, Avalon just rolled out a new website designed by Slice of Lime.

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Why you should pay attention to these 8 emerging tech hubs

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Dubbed by Forbes as the most inventive city in the world due to its “patent intensity”, Eindhoven is a hotbed for hardware design and high-tech innovation. From the Far East to the Mediterranean, we found eight cities where technology’s influence is growing by the minute, and the world should start paying close attention. Malmö, Sweden.

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11 Trends in Web Logo Design

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Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Dev & Design Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Designing and critiquing logos for web-based companies and startups is a pursuit of endless fascination for many of us. Learn more here. See also: Wet floor effect.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. So that didn’t last very long.

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Entrepreneur Fills a Market Void by Building Female-Focused Co-Working Spaces

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I found myself pushed into entrepreneurship after being laid off from a Marketing Director position with a San Diego based high tech company in 2003. I was turned on to the concept of coworking in 2010, when I hosted a networking event, for an organization I was leading, at San Diego’s first coworking space, the Hive Haus.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

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They had me lay off the entire team of seven designers and then laid me off. The realization that I could run a company and I could do it well was also the attraction, motivation, and inspiration for founding Artitudes Design. Thanks to Andrea Heuston, Artitudes Design ! #2- He didn’t believe that women should be in business.