Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2017

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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

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. I did programming for the career center at UC San Diego, trying to build programs for the career center.

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Business Plan Blog

JANUARY 30, 2013

Serial Entrepreneur and CEO of The Startup Garage Tyler Jensen speaks with Market Pulse on ESPN 1700 in San Diego. In this hour long interview Tyler talks about his first business , his journey in the launch , growth and sale of VaVi Sports and Social club, and how to avoid the mistakes he made as a first time entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). It’s interesting that the question is pitch deck’s being obsolete versus business plans being obsolete. So very few investors want Business Plans any more. Or, as always, summary notes available below.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Last Thursday, Tech Coast Angels hosted their 7th Annual Quick Pitch Competition at Qualcomm headquarters. The lobby bustled with impressive ideas, hungry entrepreneurs and a sprinkling of angels looking for opportunities. ” And it did.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

My plan was during the break to go and pick them up, and then there he was. That put him and the San Diego Hilton Garden Mission Valley on the fast track to being my favorite hotel. He was the red headed front desk guy who told me he would make copies. Bright, cheerful, and bringing added value. He was nice.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Well … I have had many late nights and I really didn’t contemplate writing many blog postings this month because I spent November in this interesting venture capital / fund raising dance involving lots of late night sessions reviewing legal documents, rewriting business plans and preparing for pitches.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2018

Many startups end up closing their doors shortly after opening – simply because owners are not able to handle everything that it takes to start a successful business. The best way to avoid this problem is to design a sustainable, healthy business plan from the start. Outsource Without Sacrificing Quality.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 24, 2021

Who do you intend to serve with your business? You can enlist help to name your business if you are struggling. Business Plan. It would be best if you had a well-laid business plan for your new venture. A good business plan answers several questions about what your business aims to achieve.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 20, 2014

At the time, Tom was a partner at Enterprise Partners Venture Capital in San Diego. If the entrepreneur accomplished the milestones set forth in their business plan, than they were deemed worthy and would receive funding. Years ago I served on a funding panel with Tom Clancy. This led Clancy to make an important decision.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MAY 13, 2013

Jeff Nobbs: I am from San Diego. I grew up in San Diego and went to college at USC in Los Angeles. Our junior year we entered Extrabux into our university’s business plan competition. We ended up winning the USC business plan competition and we got $25,000. Where are you from?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Yesterday I had the pleasure of spending all day with about 90 people who teach and advise entrepreneurs and small business owners at various Small Business Development Centers ( SBDC s) around the country. This was as part of the annual conference of Small Business Development Centers, starting today in San Diego.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 6, 2011

I read way too many business plans with overly optimistic projections. I'm talking plans showing the entrepreneurs generating tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues in just a few years. It then expanded to serving New York City, Boston, Washington DC, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

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Business Plan Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Please watch this video as Tyler Jensen explains how San Diego’s Vavi Sport and Social Club was born. It’s Friday! This is a good one- enjoy! If the link isn’t working, check out the video at: [link]. View our archived videos on our YouTube channel at [link]. Comments comments Powered by Facebook Comments.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 18, 2015

Today’s WSJ features a blistering critique of the recently shuttered Moxie Center for Student Entrepreneurship at UC San Diego’s School of Engineering. Its also nice to see that Mr. Kuang has a book. I had not heard of it before, but here is the Amazon page for From Start-up to Start: 20 Secrets to Start-Up Success.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The San Diego startup ecosystem is growing, along with the resources available to entrepreneurs. San Diego tech startup. And The Winner of San Diego Founders’ Fight Club Is… QuickSolar. As iron sharpens iron, a stockjouster sharpens another stockjouster. via Facebook]. The Industry Rag.

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Professor VC

MAY 29, 2008

I attended the ACA Summit in San Diego earlier this month. An entrepreneur will pitch their business plan to what they think is a group of angel investors and will get a number of follow-up calls afterwards, but they are pitches for services not investment interest.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 16, 2010

After the dot com bust, I served on a panel with Tom Clancy, a former partner at Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, a billion dollar venture fund in San Diego. If the entrepreneur accomplished the milestones set forth in their business plan, than they were deemed worthy and would receive funding. If not, they would not.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2010

These student entrepreneurs hail from University of Texas McCombs School of Business (home of the fabled Moot Corp) and they created an online shipping platform called uShip. Last week it received its one-millionth listing on the site. uShip is looking to close a 500K round by May to scale their marketing and technology infrastructure.

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Up and Running

MARCH 5, 2018

Identifying your target market is part of business planning—notice that it’s planning as an ongoing action not just writing a plan as a one-time event. Gathering information about your target market, like business planning, shouldn’t be an exercise you do once and then never revisit. Why: Psychographics.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

During my class at the ASBDC, something that came up in discussion and generated total consensus in the group was that the business plan document written by an outsider isn’t useful. Everybody in the room agreed that business planning is something you do, not something you buy. It’s a process, not a finished document.

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market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

ralxz's Blogs said: Your Business “Driving Force” [link] [.] link] @mccannatron #startup please RT about 50 minutes ago from TweetDeck My answer on Quora to: Are there any tech meet-ups in San Diego? This post was mentioned on Twitter by Eric Ries and brantcooper, ralxz's Blogs.

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