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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

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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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

But a new class of life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space is another. Scheduling time to look over a surgeon’s shoulder in an operating room is tough. A new life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space. Co-working spaces seem to be evolving into the startup garages of the future.

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Wonderist Agency Acquires Merger Labs

YoungUpstarts

Eighteen months ago, San Diego-based MergerLabs was born out of CAPTARGET, a leader in private equity deal origination, owned and operated by Gabe Galvez. Co-founders, Laura Maly and Michael Anderson, struck a deal with Galvez that led to the acquisition of Merger Labs , effective January 1, 2018.

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How Link in Bio became the new online real estate for the creator economy

VC Cafe

. “part of the uniqueness of Linktree is its deceptively simple design” According to one of the co-founders, Alex Zaccaria, Linktree’s site was developed in 6 hours but was bootstrapped and cash flow positive from the very beginning. Linktree operates a freemium model. Venture backed ($16M).

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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

techcrunch.com

Co-founder Naval Ravikant explains that 18 pilot companies in the program, including Transcriptic, Double Robotics and Tred, received $6.7 Investors included Founders Fund, 500 Startups and Marc Cuban. San Diego Meetup. San Diego, CA. Disrupt NY 2013. New York City. Disrupt NY Hackathon 2013.

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30 Entrepreneur Share Their Goals for 2020

Hearpreneur

My goal for 2020 as a founder is to celebrate the small moments more. In 2019, we focused on expanding our product line at BestSelf Co. As a founder, our community will be my biggest focus in the new year. As a founder, our community will be my biggest focus in the new year. Thanks to Cathryn Lavery, BestSelf Co. ! #7-Make

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

Both Sides of the Table

It feels like something you could turn your attention to once you have tens of millions of dollars and a large staff to run operations and you could step back from it all and think about how to lead. Most founders have a strong sense of what they’re trying to achieve. The reality of most startups is about survival.