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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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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

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Examples: There is a company called GreenLink Networks based in San Diego and Philadelphia. When I first met the team in San Diego they had only been working on their software for 5 months. When I first met the team in San Diego they had only been working on their software for 5 months. Another example.

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Create Branded Facebook Storefronts With TabJuice

YoungUpstarts

Created by 29-year old San Diego native Dylan Whitman, TabJuice is a great alternative for fledgling retail brands that do not have an online presence aside for their Facebook pages. It’s simple to set up too – just three steps to create an account, design a store and start tapping on those Facebook fans.

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[Interview] Imaginary Friends Studios (Is More Real Than You Think)

YoungUpstarts

I was officially trained in graphic design and advertising but with a strong passion in art since young. After graduating from Nanyang Polytechnic with a diploma in digital media design, I have spent a year in Tokyo working for the game company tri-Ace/Square-Enix, and then set up IFS with my current partners.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

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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Towards An Intel-ligent Future

YoungUpstarts

What was more interesting ware a few reference designs that use touch technology. The company is currently working with various System-On-Chip (SoC) vendors, including Cavium , MStar Semiconductor , Sigma Designs , Realtek, and Wondermedia , to put WiDi technology in most HDTVs, projectors, game consoles, and other devices.

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Avalon Ventures Raises A New $200 Million Fund And Gets A New Website

Feld Thoughts

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.). In conjunction with their financing, Avalon just rolled out a new website designed by Slice of Lime.

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