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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. Galvez, a major player in private equity and investment banking, saw the need for marketing services geared toward these sectors.

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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. They add mentors and additional services and some offer free space in exchange for equity. Accelerators take teams with fairly focused ideas and offer a formal 3-4 month program of tutoring/mentoring with seed funding in exchange for equity.

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Meet EvoNexus - the Country's Only Free Startup Incubator

ReadWriteStart

EvoNexus (which does sound kind of like a U2 album), is a project of San Diego tech industry association CommNexus , which launched the incubator in 2009 to stimulate the growth of new high-tech companies in the area. But unlike other incubators, those entrepreneurs pay no fees and give up no equity. “We Pro bono as in free.

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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. In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. Communications.

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New Plain Preferred Term Sheet

www.founderinstitute.com

The Lab manages the shared operational needs of its member organizations, allowing them to better focus on mission and execution. Participation" means that investors "double dip" by getting both their liquidation preference and their equity allocation. - This is a downside protection term. This is a downside protection term.

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Improved Liquidity, Investment Flexibility, and Labor Arbitrage

Growthink Blog

Typical was this comment submitted by a San Diego VC: " I agree that the VC fund industry is guilty as charged when it comes to being opaque as to real returns data, but I challenge you to revisit your analysis in 24 to 36 months, when we all will have had time to benefit from today’s strong M&A and IPO markets."

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Transcript of Tips for Attracting Local Clients

Duct Tape Marketing

I think [00:14:48] graphic from six years ago still largely holds true the website is one of the core pieces of digital equity that you can build and just because people aren’t seeing it as much doesn’t make it any less valuable.

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