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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

ReadWriteStart

Today James Hickey from San Diego, California, pitched Parallel6 , a company that does social media marketing services for brands and also has a white label mobile app that can be customized and branded for their clients' mobile and social marketing needs. You can register here. Now, on to today's roundtable: Parallel6.

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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. The acquisition opens the door into a new vertical, allowing the co-founders to accelerate growth and lay the foundation for additional vertical expansions.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Plantible Foods

Austin Startup

Tony Martens , Co-Founder at Plantible Foods , moved his company to San Diego from the Netherlands The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 Plantible Foods wants to contribute to a more sustainable and responsible future while meeting the food needs of a hungry planet. Tell us your favorite thing about being based in San Diego.

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Tech Guys Go Bananas

Feld Thoughts

I ran into the guys from Barnana at an event in San Diego a few months ago. The notion of meaning is supported across multiple verticals, from the maker revolution to local and organic foods, to the various kickstarter campaigns. I figure if things don’t work out at least I can eat some of the inventory. And bananas.”

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“It takes a very special founder to build a media business long term. I have not met many.” Five Questions With Howard Lindzon

Hunter Walker

Howard Lindzon invites me to San Diego, excuse me – Coronado, periodically for events like “Lindzonpalooza.” Hunter Walk: You’re a Canadian who moved to Phoenix and then San Diego. No fancy story, just a fun adventure and now we call Coronado, San Diego our home. We never left.

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Closure

Steve Blank

– Cornell University; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at Carnegie Mellon University; and the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California at San Diego.

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2011 Valuation Survey of North American Angel Groups

Gust

Speaking with many angel leaders , I believe we have identified several possible explanations for group-to-group variations: 1) Clearly, startup ventures in some business verticals command high pre-money valuations that others. New Mexico Angels. Albuquerque. up pressure. Desert Angels. Hawaii Angels. RAIN Funds. Tech Coast Angels.