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San Diego Startup Spotlight: Breadcrumbs

Business Plan Blog

The San Diego startup ecosystem is growing, along with the resources available to entrepreneurs. Breadcrumbs was conceived in June 2012 at Startup Weekend in San Diego as a self-tracking mobile application. Sean compares the early version to the Mint.com for time-management. Searching for Customer Validation.

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San Diego Startup Spotlight: Breadcrumbs

Business Plan Blog

The San Diego startup ecosystem is growing, along with the resources available to entrepreneurs. Breadcrumbs was conceived in June 2012 at Startup Weekend in San Diego as a self-tracking mobile application. Sean compares the early version to the Mint.com for time-management. Searching for Customer Validation.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

Xconomy San Diego. San Diego ›. View More in San Diego ›. San Francisco ›. View More in San Francisco ›. Innovation Report Shows San Diego Added 695 Tech Jobs at End of 2011. Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. San Diego Events ›. San Francisco Events ›.

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Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Steve Blank

I was driving home from the BIO conference in San Diego last month and had lots of time for a phone call with Dave, an ex student and now a founder who wanted to update me on his Customer Discovery progress. He was using 3 rd parties to build his app but he had no expertise on how to manage external developers.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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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How To Maximize A Limited Labor Budget With Gig Work

YoungUpstarts

In its 2017 Global Human Capital Trends , Deloitte urges managers to stop viewing jobs as the basic unit of work and to instead break jobs down into tasks. Functioning primarily with gig workers just means moving away from command-and-control management to maximizing the right talent in the right gigs for the right amount of time.

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The Top 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail

Business Plan Blog

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. During company formation, the management team needs a solid legal strategy and must be compliance. Top 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail.