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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. Filed under: Customer Development , Technology. Customer Development Technology'

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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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Towards An Intel-ligent Future

YoungUpstarts

Yes, they are bits of technology for sure, but we seldom really look at Intel as a bleeding-edge technology company. For example, these devices come in-built with Intel’s Rapid Start technology, which allows the unit to resume from a hibernation mode to active mode in less than seven seconds.

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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. TabJuice charges a flat US$19.99 per month per storefront. “And, TabJuice is owned by Flank Digital and JCBI.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. 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.

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Crowdsourcing Hope With Online Donation Platform GoFundMe

YoungUpstarts

San-Diego, California-based GoFundMe essentially is a crowdfunding platform that lets someone collect donations for a personal cause or a life event. But online payment technology didn’t catch up with their vision, until now. Enter a website called GoFundMe.com.

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Why you should pay attention to these 8 emerging tech hubs

The Next Web

Today, with the decentralising nature of the Internet, distributed cloud technology and a growing sentiment toward entrepreneurship, the global startup ecosystem has never been so dispersed. And this is just one of the many pioneering technologies surfacing out of this mid-sized Southern city of the Netherlands. Pune, India?.