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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

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I’ve had this conversation with several communities such as in San Diego where I believe there are way more qualified and talented engineers than available local capital to support them. Actually, there is tons of wealth in San Diego but it isn’t organized well to support them. San Diego has Qualcomm.

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

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I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). And especially if you are dealing with early stage firms where partners might have different areas of specialization but they might have a lot of connective tissue across things. Or, as always, summary notes available below.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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

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In December, AngelList , a service that matches early-stage startups with investors, debuted the ability to allow accredited investors to actually invest in startups on the platform with as little as $1,000. AngelList also partnered with SecondMarket to create an investment vehicle for these investments. San Diego Meetup.

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

Steve Blank

Testing hypotheses with doctors, patients, payers, providers, purchasing departments, strategic partners is hard. This has been nearly a 4-year journey,” said Schonthal who prior to moving back to Chicago in 2011 had been working in healthcare venture capital in San Diego. It Takes a Village. It has density,” he said.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

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This week’s guest was David Travers from Rustic Canyon Partners. What I found strange about this funded was the fact that it was led by Summit Partners. Investors: Summit Partners (lead), Jeff Clavier, Aydin Senkut, Gary Vaynerchuk. The investment will be used for product development initiatives. 4mm in Series A.

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Part 2 of Episode 6 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Steve Weinstein and Venk Shukla

Steve Blank

Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital. Venk Shukla has worked in numerous early-stage companies as an executive, investor, board member, or advisor. Steve Weinstein , CEO of MovieLabs. government commercializes science. . If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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