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By EVA RUTH MORAVEC Special Contributor to Silicon Hills News Dr. Gregory Stein had never been to Austin when he relocated his fledgling drug development company here from San Diego, a city rich with life sciences and its related ecosystem. “Entrepreneurs will do whatever it takes to make it work,” said Stein, president and CEO […] The post Curtana Seeks to Cure Brain Cancer appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin Curtana Pharmaceuticals MORE
On the New Florence blog The Bourne Legacy The Russian Internet All Stars Holi-day Innovation is also reinventing the old A fleet of civilian drones NYC’s Domain Awareness System The Kindle Paperwhite Hey, San Diego, match this! Innovative Business Uses of Technology MORE
We were apart for ten days because of a trip she took to Africa, so we went to San Diego for a week. Personal Qx vacation san diego vacationAmy and I have learned that I need a Q1 vacation earlier in Q1 (vs. waiting until the end of March). MORE
Blog Economy San Diego Startup Community mentoring startups Mentoring is also a more significant part of the economy today than since, perhaps, apprentorship in the craftsman age. MORE
Last night, I was invited by Xconomy to come to San Diego and talk about entrepreneurial communities at a private dinner that had about 25 entrepreneurs and investors that care deeply about the issue. I told the folks from San Diego “I can’t hear you!” These were the potential leaders in San Diego. MORE
I was at networking dinner in San Diego during a visit to the city for a conference. “Where do you live?” ” she asked. “I don’t really have an answer to that question right now,” I reply. MORE
I ran into the guys from Barnana at an event in San Diego a few months ago. I can’t make angel investments in tech companies anymore because of my Foundry Group fund agreements. So I’ve been making angel investments in food companies. Justin’s Nut Butter , Rick’s Picks , Blue Bottle Coffee , and Quinn Popcorn are some recent examples. I figure if things don’t work out at least I can eat some of the inventory. MORE
And at the same time, came upon a handful of amazing opportunities in Southern California (two in LA, one in San Diego). Two LA, one San Diego, one Salt Lake City, two Boston, seven New York City. MORE
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. MORE
I’ve gotten to know several of Rich’s partners over the past few years and recently had a wonderful Do More Faster book tour dinner hosted at Avalon’s San Diego office by Kevin Kinsella (a fellow MIT-grad turned VC.). Congrats to my friends at Avalon Ventures on raising their new $200 million fund. MORE
We finished last night with a nice dinner with everyone overlooking the water and a very lit up San Diego. Books depression Jerry Colonna lindzonpalooza parker palmer san diego I did Digital Sabbath #4 yesterday. I spent the day on Coronado with my dad at Lindzonpalooza, the annual retreat put on by Howard Lindzon. MORE
On Monday I spoke to hundreds of amped up social media types at a conference in San Diego, right down on the yachted waterfront. Yesterday my friend Chris Brogan asked if he could write a guest post about what he’s learned growing his own business. MORE
If you are in the San Diego area Thursday at the end of the day I’m doing a public event with Techstars and San Diego Sports Innovators from 6pm – 7:30pm called Sports, Startups, and San Diego: An Evening with Brad Feld. The post 11/17: Sports, Startups, and San Diego: An Evening with Brad Feld appeared first on Feld Thoughts. MORE
Joymode (LA), Lumi (LA) and Shield (San Diego) each take the DNA of their home cities and imbue their companies with a sense of purpose. So we’re happy to continue being Day One investors for founders building in LA and San Diego MORE
We’ve been pleasantly surprised with the expansion of our networks in other geographies, like Southern California (LA, San Diego, and Santa Barbara) and Portland. Semil Shah recently wrote a post titled Investing Outside The Bay Area. MORE
Last week, Dropoff announced it had entered three new markets: San Diego, Fort […] The post Dropoff Raises $8.5 Dropoff, the same day delivery service, announced this week it has raised $8.5 million in additional funding. The Austin-based startup, founded in 2014, plans to use the money to expand to 35 additional markets in North America, according to a news release. MORE
Today we’ve announced that we’ve made new investments in LeadPages (a company in Minneapolis) and 3D Robotics (a company in Tijuana, San Diego, and Berkeley). We believe great companies can be created anywhere. When we started Foundry Group, we hypothesized that 33% of our investments would be in Colorado, 33% would be in California, 33% would be “everywhere else”, and 1% would be on Mars. MORE
Entrepreneur and marketing mogul Ryan Mack says that San Diego is the perfect place for a young entrepreneur to start business. San Diego, a city of 1.3 Others San Diego starting a business startup ecosystem MORE
Please watch this video as Tyler Jensen explains how San Diego’s Vavi Sport and Social Club was born. It’s Friday! This is a good one- enjoy! If the link isn’t working, check out the video at: [link]. View our archived videos on our YouTube channel at [link]. MORE
San Diego-based everyStory, a cloud-based story sharing mobile app and platform, announced it has acquired StoryPress of Austin. The company […] The post everyStory of San Diego Acquires StoryPress of Austin appeared first on SiliconHills. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Mike Davis, CEO of StoryPress, launched the website in 2013 and a year later completed a successful Kickstarter campaign and raised $500,000 in seed stage capital. MORE
Economy Lean Entrepreneur San Diego Startup Community accelerator incubator mentor mentor program I’m going to go out on a limb here. I guarantee that good startup mentors exist everywhere, even in your neck of the woods. MORE
This year we went to Rancho Valencia – a tennis resort near San Diego. If you play tennis almost every day for five weeks you get a lot better. I’m back from what was an amazing sabbatical. Last year Amy and I went to Bora Bora. In addition to turning 50, I had an incredible mental, emotional, and physical reset. Two years ago, Seth, Jason, Ryan, and I decided that we would each take a month off the grid each year. MORE
The San Diego startup ecosystem is growing, along with the resources available to entrepreneurs. San Diego tech startup. And The Winner of San Diego Founders’ Fight Club Is… QuickSolar. MORE
I’ve been in San Diego with Amy for a while but we are returning to Boulder in a week. San Diego has been great, but I miss my dogs, my friends, and the Colorado vibe. When people ask me about the Colorado vibe, I often talk about GiveFirst. MORE
Hacking for Defense at UC San Diego: Taught Fall 2016/next class 2017. Our goal was to scale Hacking for Defense classes across the US – giving students the opportunity to perform national service by solving real defense/diplomacy problems using Lean Methods. MORE
And – if you are an entrepreneur and want to go deep here along with hanging out in San Diego, check out the robotics revolution. Thanks for the all notes of concern about my bike accident on Thursday. MORE
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. MORE
Today’s WSJ features a blistering critique of the recently shuttered Moxie Center for Student Entrepreneurship at UC San Diego’s School of Engineering. We also know that its great when entrepreneurship programs are integrated with regional ecosystems and engage innovators locally and am happy to see that Mr. Kuang and his colleagues in San Diego are looking for ways to support students interested in innovation and entrepreneurship. MORE
San Diego. San Diego is a hotbed for biotech companies, but they’ve also got their share of those in telecom and other tech industries. Corporate housing in San Diego is on the rise, which in turn helps the area’s startup scene flourish. MORE
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. MORE
We know we’ll be in New York, Boston, Dallas, San Diego, Iceland, and London this year. Quick Left is hosting a Startup Life event with me and Amy on April 25th at their office in Boulder. Registration is open – as of now there are 20 tickets left (it’s a free event). MORE
I met Andy Swan at Lindzonpalooza in San Diego this year. Then I went out to San Diego and chatted with Brad Feld. Andy towers over me (he’s 6′ 9″) and I’m always attracted to people who make me (at 6′ 1″) feel short. Among other things, he’s got a super creative blog and is a successful entrepreneur, so we had a great discussion. MORE
Nice personal touch by LinkedIn to send this email. Apparently now that LinkedIn is up to 100 million members (WOW, think about that), they’ve decided to send out an email to their first 100,000 users, of which I was #16,319. MORE
Ideaspotting daily deal eDrinkit eDrinkit.com entertainment F&B group buying sites San Diego social group buying MORE
The companies included in this group hail from from Australia, Germany, San Diego, San Francisco and Los Angeles to join the program in Seattle. I’ve written before about the Kinect Accelerator and Microsoft Accelerator. MORE
In the past, we’ve gone to Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Austin, Miami Beach, Las Vegas again, and a few other places. Every year, my dad and I go on a father son trip somewhere for the weekend. We go wherever he wants to go. MORE
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. San Diego’s Free EvoNexus Tech Incubator Gains Qualcomm Expertise. San Diego Events ›. San Francisco Events ›. San Diego Home. San Diego Events. San Diego Jobs. MORE
Welcome to the new year. What will it bring? Hopefully a lot less hatred, greed, stupidity, and angst than 2017. But we’re not holding our breath. We emerged from the winter break pondering several of the year’s burning biopharma questions, including the volatility of the U.S. president and what it means for the biopharmaceutical business, a frequent target of his scattershot rants. MORE
The company, which is now based in San Diego, received its Series A funding from Techstars Ventures, Foundry Group, Galvanize Ventures and the Geekdom Fund. Chowbotics, which participated in the Austin Techstars 2016 cohort, just announced it has received $5 million in funding. MORE
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. MORE
BY LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News The three founders of Common Form met at Intuit in San Diego. They worked on the popular tax filing software TurboTax, but they quit in late 2013 to form their own startup to provide a better tax filing solution for simple tax filers. Simple tax filers, which […] The post Common Form Wants to Make Tax Filing Simple appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin Austin Marron Bill Hendricks Charles Logston Common Form Online taxes TechStar MORE
Hacking for Defense at UC San Diego: Taught Fall 2016/next class 2017. Our goal was to scale Hacking for Defense classes across the US – giving students the opportunity to perform national service by solving real defense/diplomacy problems using Lean Methods. MORE
Last Thursday, Tech Coast Angels hosted their 7th Annual Quick Pitch Competition at Qualcomm headquarters. The lobby bustled with impressive ideas, hungry entrepreneurs and a sprinkling of angels looking for opportunities. MORE
Over time they’ve added New York, Detroit, San Francisco, and San Diego and are now considering expanding to Boulder / Denver (I encouraged them to combine both as each city is on fire and there’s no reason not to link them together at this point.). I’ve been a huge fan of Xconomy since its debut several years ago. It’s been a refreshing resource for a bunch of startup communities, including Boston (where it started) and Seattle. MORE
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Please watch this video as Tyler Jensen explains how San Diego’s Vavi Sport and Social Club was born. It’s Friday! This is a good one- enjoy! If the link isn’t working, check out the video at: [link]. View our archived videos on our YouTube channel at [link].
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