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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. Among other things, they get an opportunity to pitch to investors and industry representatives at Plug and Play’s quarterly “expo” event.

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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. Winners will receive valuable services and awards plus great exposure.

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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. Mobile gifting service. Provides electronic book services for content publishers; services include digital scanning and conversion, distribution to leading e-book retailers, monetization and royalty management. LibreDigital.

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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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Interview with Albert Ko, DealPerk.com

socalTECH

Albert previously founded CheapCheapCheap.com, an online coupon and deal finding site, and we thought we'd hear from Albert why he thinks the local, group purchasing market is so interesting, and how he hopes to grow the service beyond just Orange County. What is the site all about?

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

Both Sides of the Table

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. Our first big institutional round was $16.5