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How DogVacay Literally Saved my Thanksgiving

Both Sides of the Table

Every year my family meets in San Diego for Thanksgiving. Panic ensued as we couldn’t bring the dogs to San Diego and my brother’s three kids look forward to this great trip all year. ” She arrived late that night in San Diego. The Background. “Oh s**t.” Thank you.

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If you Can’t Make Time, MakeSpace

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It was in San Diego and I had space in my apartment but I had a lot of extra stuff that was easier stored in a facility. He thought he’d want to get some of his stuff back once the post trauma of the storage had passed. He wanted an Uber experience. But with storage. I was ecstatic. It resonated. I used storage.

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

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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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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. A startup is not just about the idea, it’s about testing and then implementing the idea.

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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. I’m not sure why you’d do that unless you had to. Another example. version of their product was.

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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

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Geographically our strategy is to fund about 50% of our deals in Southern California (from San Diego to Santa Barbara) and 50% of our deals on a national basis. We do reserve part of the fund to opportunistically get involved with some B-round deals.

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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. Soon thereafter, Breadcrumbs was accepted into San Diego’s tech incubator, EvoNexus.