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Meet The San Diego Watch Brand Championing Direct-To-Consumer

YoungUpstarts

a San Diego startup watch manufacturer that delivers luxury quality watches at an accessible price point. That means crowdsourcing customer feedback to develop new designs, delivering direct to the end-user to provide added value, and an in-house customer service team that prevents problems instead of waiting for them to happen.

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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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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Today, CedarLane is the largest family-owned and operated national frozen food brand in the U.S. So I took the leap, and left my day job to freelance part-time as an online marketer, doing everything from logo design to website design and development to social media consulting. I started my business in San Diego in 2007.

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

Steve Blank

assess intellectual property and regulatory risk before they design and build. Scheduling time to look over a surgeon’s shoulder in an operating room is tough. Incubators are designed for teams with an idea. know what data will be required by future partnerships/collaboration/purchases before doing the science.

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

techcrunch.com

Ravikant explains that this feature is designed to encourage more startups to raise funding from legitimate investors via AngelList. San Diego Meetup. San Diego, CA. And the lead investor has to be putting in at least $100,000 in capital, says Ravikant. Disrupt NY 2013. New York City. Disrupt NY Hackathon 2013.

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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. Merger Labs will join Wonderist Agency in their newly renovated office, located in San Diego’s Point Loma neighborhood.

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How Modern Businesses Achieve Success with AI Chatbots

YoungUpstarts

AI in business — beginning with the chatbot revolution — requires KPIs from design and development through to real-life application and performance assessment. Rather, they ensure that these systems work with them, operating in a way that promotes both the KPIs and goals of their organization.

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