Business Plan Blog

JANUARY 9, 2014

Steve Rowles has been serving the San Diego startup ecosystem for over 20 years. Beginning in 1987, he worked in the garages of the first companies to come out of UC San Diego. Steve recently spoke to a group of entrepreneurs about the top 10 reasons why startups fail. Top 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1 – Food is Always Needed. I believe everyone is a leader, whether it’s at work, home, church, or in their community. I started my business in San Diego in 2007. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

My mom was an entrepreneur – she was kind of my inspiration for entrepreneurship. 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. My mom grew up in the States.

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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). One of our principles – and we call them deeply held beliefs – one of them was that we are all going to invest in the same things”… “I think it is useful for the entrepreneur to know what he is encountering because every firm has a different process.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

As an entrepreneur in the crowded craft brewing business, his company’s dedication to quality has fostered its popularity among the beer-drinking public. He hopes to expand to Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver, and San Francisco. Product is shipped to Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and San Diego on occasion.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 8, 2019

My first interaction with John Jantsch was in April of 2016 at the annual Social Media Marketing World conference in San Diego, CA. A copy of John Jantsch’s presentation at the 2016 Social Media Marketing World conference in San Diego, CA. In a nutshell, I was an entrepreneur on an island figuring it out as I went.

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Up and Running

APRIL 13, 2016

If you are one of the many entrepreneurs interested in opening a marijuana dispensary, this article can guide you through the necessary steps. There is a map online that shows all the San Diego county compliant properties.”. Another community, you can find out that information. In Edgewater, it passed for 70 percent.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

The class provides Life Science/Health Care entrepreneurs with real world, hands-on learning on how to rapidly : define clinical utility before spending millions of dollars. In order to get the healthcare community to collaborate with each other to bring new ideas to market they will need some help to catalyze the “co” part of co-working.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Frank Cowell is a speaker, best-selling author, and entrepreneur in the San Diego, California area. He is a speaker, bestselling author and entrepreneur, currently serves as the chief revenue boss at Revenue Ranch. He works regularly with business owners and executives who are looking to grow faster and smarter.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

It can be pretty challenging for traveling entrepreneurs to find the best hotels when traveling around for business. If you have some businesses to attend to in the city, this hotel offers the perfect ambiance for the traveling entrepreneur. Knowing that entrepreneurs face a myriad of challenges, they need a place to clear their minds.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

Tony Martens , Co-Founder at Plantible Foods , moved his company to San Diego from the Netherlands The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 Plantible Foods wants to contribute to a more sustainable and responsible future while meeting the food needs of a hungry planet. Tell us your favorite thing about being based in San Diego.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2018

Nearly half of entrepreneurs suffer from some sort of mental health condition, such as depression or anxiety. Here are four practical ways that entrepreneurs can do it. Many entrepreneurs fear that outsourcing even the smallest of tasks will diminish their control over the business. Forge Communities Wisely.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

And I am often approached by entrepreneurs in cities which don’t have a vibrant VC community. Where do you want to build your community, your relationships, your family?” If their commitment to staying local is weak I normally say, “Well, it certainly would be easier on you to be in a larger community.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Coworking spaces are popping up all over suburban cities like Los Angeles, New York and San Diego. A place for like-minded entrepreneurs, coworking spaces allow individuals to partake in an office-like environment, without the corporate office feel. You don’t learn how to be an entrepreneur from a book. by Ashley Ward.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The main goal of the project was to raise awareness of homelessness and hunger in San Diego, so I thought it would be a good idea to use cereal boxes to build the mosaic and donate them to a local shelter afterward. Here are three tips that will help any entrepreneur (or kid) do the same: 1.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

First started in San Francisco, Founder Friday events draw an average of 350 attendees and take place the first Friday of every month, providing the opportunity for female entrepreneurs to interconnect while listening to valuable keynote speeches from local female founders.

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Up and Running

MARCH 5, 2018

Other entrepreneurs take the complete opposite approach and treat marketing as if it’s the 1916 Battle of the Somme: they throw all of their resources in the general direction of their intended audience and hope something hits its mark. “We If you build it, they will come. That’s what I believed when I was first starting out.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The lobby bustled with impressive ideas, hungry entrepreneurs and a sprinkling of angels looking for opportunities. Ten finalists presented to the crowd of over 500 leaders in the entrepreneurial community and to the diverse panel of judges. ” And it did. Each had two minutes to sell their idea.

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David Cohen

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

One thing that makes TechStars really work, and a reason people come from all over the country to participate, is that here in Boulder we’re part of a vibrant entrepreneurial community. Brad really goes deep with this stuff, and in the past few years has written a lot about startup communities.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

I’m sure you’re familiar with the setup… performative, end-of-program demo days that are meant to somehow wrap the experience up in a bow… gigantic, unfamiliar cohort groups that are somehow meant to feel like close-knit communities… the list goes on and on. Benchmark Labs: San Diego, California. Jambb: Boston, Massachusetts .

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. It really only needs a few community leaders to kick things off and land a community on a map. Co-Working Space.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Next, we wanted the students to learn about the nation’s threats and security challenges while working with innovators inside the DoD and Intelligence Community. Origins of the class.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

It can be pretty challenging for traveling entrepreneurs to find the best hotels when traveling around for business. If you have some businesses to attend to in the city, this hotel offers the perfect ambiance for the traveling entrepreneur. Knowing that entrepreneurs face a myriad of challenges, they need a place to clear their minds.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 3, 2020

Transcript of Embracing Individuality to Grow Your Community written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. He’s the founder of BW Missions , and organization that helps clients globally build communities and develop their voices. I love building communities. Back to Podcast. Transcript. This is John Jantsch.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Passion powers entrepreneurs; tenacity pulls them through, and entrepreneurship can do good for the world explained todays guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. Jered Lawson discovered a passion for community farming while in college. It’s so easy to quit as an entrepreneur.

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market-by-numbers.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Without any more evidence than my personal experience—working alongside hundreds of mentors and entrepreneurs around the globe, including such far off places as Brussels, Moscow, and Kuala Lumpur—I’m willing to bet […]. Economy Lean Entrepreneur San Diego Startup Community accelerator incubator mentor mentor program'

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 29, 2013

Boulder/Denver joins the other six regions – Boston, Detroit, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle – and is now part of the broad and expanding coverage that Xconomy is providing on business, life sciences, and technology news. This is another effort to that end.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. This fall a series of new “Hacking for X…” classes will address these deserving communities. The Innovation Insurgency Spreads. Hacking for Energy at Columbia.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

Soldier, Scholar, Entrepreneur. Ironically, I was first introduced to Joe not at Stanford but through one of his other lives – that of an entrepreneur and businessman – at the company he founded, BMNT Partners. Joe Felter was just appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia. Fast forward a year.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 10, 2018

Backstory on BUBS: Glen ‘BUB’ Doherty was my oldest and closest friend. He was a long time San Diego resident and Navy SEAL. He was 2012 San Diego UT ‘person of the year’ alongside Ty Woods for their bravery in the Benghazi Libya terrorist attacks. We agreed that charitable giving had to be a foundation of BUBS.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 10, 2018

Backstory on BUBS: Glen ‘BUB’ Doherty was my oldest and closest friend. He was a long time San Diego resident and Navy SEAL. He was 2012 San Diego UT ‘person of the year’ alongside Ty Woods for their bravery in the Benghazi Libya terrorist attacks. We agreed that charitable giving had to be a foundation of BUBS.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

First , would students to sign up for a class that engaged them in national service with the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community? Second , could we find islands of innovation inside the DOD, the Intelligence Community and State Department willing to engage students to work on real problems? Result: Hell yes.

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www.founderinstitute.com

MARCH 2, 2010

You can contact Adam J.August at 1600 Tysons Boulevard, Suite 700 | McLean, Virginia 22102 Phone 703.720.8059 | Fax 703.720.8610 adam.august@hklaw.com | www.hklaw.com Affinity Lab is an entrepreneurial launch platform serving a rich community of Washington DC businesses, non-profits and start-ups.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

First , would students to sign up for a class that engaged them in national service with the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community? Second , could we find islands of innovation inside the DOD, the Intelligence Community and State Department willing to engage students to work on real problems? Result: Hell yes.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Read interview here RoadBotics , Pittsburgh, PA Sherpa , London, England Vence , San Diego, CA Alternates: Clean Robotics , San Francisco, CA Track , San Francisco, CA XAIN AG , Berlin, Germany Augmented and Virtual Reality 3:30 pm Saturday, March 9 Finalists: BehaviorMe , Gainesville, FL Healium by StoryUP , Columbia, MO?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

If you’re an active part of your city or town’s community, you may have noticed a sudden spike in the number of activities and events relating to business and entrepreneurship. Natalie MacNeil of She Takes on the World Inc told me that she feels it’s important for women entrepreneurs to celebrate themselves.

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