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CommNexus GadgetFest 2008

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, October 23, 2008 -- CommNexus GadgetFest 2008. Every year, CommNexus challenges tech companies within and beyond the San Diego region to enter their latest technologies into GadgetFest and compete for the coveted title of "Greatest Gadget."

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Plug and Play San Diego Finds Home in New Downtown Works Space

Xconomy

Plug and Play San Diego has formed a partnership with Downtown Works, a new co-working space in downtown San Diego, which will give the local Plug and Play program a place to call home. We would like to launch an accelerator based here, and bring in additional resources from the Bay Area.”. billion under management.

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TCA Quick Pitch

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, October 2, 2008 -- San Diego Tech Coast Angels Second Annual Quick Pitch Competition. Announcing a unique opportunity for entrepreneurs to participate in the San Diego Tech Coast Angels Quick Pitch competition.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. Brought in new CEO, Russ Reeder in 2008. Founded in 2009 in San Francisco by David Soloff (ex-Lead Architect of Rapt, which was sold to MSFT in 2008). Competition: Pingg, MyPunchbowl, TinyPrints , PaperlessPost.

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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

Both Sides of the Table

Our 3rd fund began investing in March 2009 (raised in 2008) and our 4th fund started in April 2012 so this fund will naturally begin investing around March / April 2015. 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.

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How Kazuhm Is Reconnecting The Enterprise Cloud, With Tim O'Neal

socalTECH

To fix that, San Diego-based Kazuhm (www.kazuhm.com) has created software, which uses the same kinds of distributed computing techniques made popular in the consumer world by community projects like SETI, and applied that to the enterprise. That was probably around 2008 and 2009, and Intuit had lots of data centers.

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Interview with Jonathan Simkin, SwoopThat

socalTECH

In 2008, the Federal government passed an act which said that school have to show the course and required books for those courses. Jonathan Simkin: One of the things I did after graudating, is I joined CONNECT, which is like the entrepreneurial center and hub in San Diego, which is run in conjunction with UCSD and other schools here.

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