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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Weeks 8 and 9

Steve Blank

In addition, teams worked on understanding the costs and operations and deployment timelines for delivering the product to their sponsor. Slides 5-8 continued their learning about partnerships, and slides 9-11 are a great first pass on costs and financial and operations timeline. Slides 4 -6 summarized their costs and operating plan.

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How to Open a Marijuana Dispensary

Up and Running

We talked with two dispensary owners from pioneering states: Mitch Woolhiser, owner of Northern Lights Cannabis Company in Denver, Colorado, and Lincoln Fish, CEO of OutCo Labs, which manages the dispensary Outliers Collective in San Diego, California. There is a map online that shows all the San Diego county compliant properties.”.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

For those that cannot afford the services of my company, I make sure to volunteer in leadership positions with the Junior League of San Diego. While operating a tutoring business I was able to identify a demand for niche business software. 13- Showcase different communities. 21- Bring unity back to communities.

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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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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). I do something I now call community hours. And so that is a steady import of talent but even more interestingly what it really did is it re-energized the entrepreneurial community.”. And they made an early investment in Yahoo.“ “….a

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

Steve Blank

Scheduling time to look over a surgeon’s shoulder in an operating room is tough. It will have a simulated procedure space that can be configured as an Operating Room, Emergency Room, Intensive Care Unit and other clinical/procedural settings. Getting time to brainstorm with payers or experts in clinical trials is hard.

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

VC Cafe

do they care about driving users to a personal website that doesn’t add to their community size or engagement? or would they rather engage with their fans/community on the platforms themselves? Linktree operates a freemium model. San Diego based, founded in 2016 and started as a meme creator.

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