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MARCH 29, 2011

San Diego-based MP3Tunes , the cloud music storage service startup headed by Michael Robertson, has some stiff new competition today. The new Amazon service is a direct competitor to MP3Tunes, a music locker service started by Robertson, a serial entrepreneur known for MP3.com, READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

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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Xconomy

JUNE 11, 2018

Helen Torley, who was highlighted in 2016 as the only female CEO of a public life sciences company in San Diego , was recognized last week for her operational excellence at Halozyme Therapeutics (NASDAQ: HALO ). The regional competition is part of the global. The 16 finalists are in the above photo.)

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MAY 26, 2016

Should millennial entrepreneurs go to college? If you believe the mythology surrounding the handful of entrepreneurs who did not obtain a degree, you may think that the path to entrepreneurial success is enhanced by avoiding college. I asked them to devise reasons an entrepreneur should remain in college.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 -- Building Your Business in the Face of Global Competition: Entrepreneurship in Difficult Times. MIT Enterprise Forum of San Diego. If you're an entrepreneur, you always see the glass half full; "difficult economic times" is just another way of saying "exciting new opportunities ahead."

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Los Angeles-based XPRIZE , which runs a number of prize-based competitions for developing technology, has named eighteen teams for its $2 million, Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE , including two local teams. The groups will go on to submit their technology to affordably and accurately measure ocean acidification.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 18, 2012

The Tech Coast Angels invites San Diego's up and coming entrepreneurs to "Meet the Angels" that can help you make your dream come true. Hosted by Sheppard Mullin, this evening is an incredible opportunity for entrepreneurs to connect with local angel investors before starting on this journey.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 13, 2012

Engage with San Diego's spiciest up-and-coming tech companies through a collaborative competition. The MIT Enterprise Forum Tech Fiesta brings together the best and brightest entrepreneurs, tech experts and industry leaders San Diego has to offer. Wednesday, May 16, 2012 -- MIT Enterprise Forum Tech Fiesta.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The experience was part of InCube 2018 , a global startup pitch competition organized by the ETH Entrepreneurship Club. We met for the first time the week before, and we were competing against four other cubes in Switzerland to solve a challenge.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. How was it you ended up in San Diego? What does that look like?

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JULY 31, 2009

San Diego-based Qualcomm reports today that it is extending the deadline for the firm's wireless business plan competition, its Qualcomm Ventures QPrize Business Plan Competition, to August 21st. The deadline for the business plan competition was originally today, July 31st. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 7, 2009

San Diego-based Qualcomm disclosed today that it has launched a new, entrepreneurship prize which will provide $550,000 in seed funding to entrepreneurs in North America, Europe, China, and India. Qualcomm said that the deadline for the business plan competition in July 31st. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

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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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 12, 2010

To stay competitive in today's marketplace, organizations frequently seek outside expertise to provide credibility, contacts, counseling and cash. Tuesday, May 18, 2010 -- Getting What You Need from a Board of Directors and Advisor. See [link] (more).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The 9th annual GadgetFest is fast approaching, and tech companies in the San Diego region and beyond are preparing to showcase their newest, most innovative technologies for this years competition. This year, we expect heightened competition from large companies as well as from smaller stealth-startups.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

San Diego-based Daasity (www.daasity.com)  which just raised $2.3M They are really focused on their core product, and they have an ecosystem where they want other entrepreneurs and other businesses to help their entrepreneurs. So, what are you working now and where are you going next?

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OCTOBER 16, 2008

San Diego-based RealGifts, a developer of a Facebook application for giving real gifts to friends, is one of the recipients of the $25,000 Facebook fbFund competition. Facebook's fbFund is a $10M fund focused on identifying talent and funding entrepreneurs developing Facebook software applications.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

A few months ago I wrote about an entrepreneur, Sam Rosen, whom we brought on as an EIR at Upfront Ventures. Now remember that Sam is an entrepreneur. 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. Of course there is competition!

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. That's where the original concept came from--so we wrote up the plan, and it won the competition.

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

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. As I like to say when asked, “For entrepreneurs you generally need to go to 2-3 cities max and probably pitch 5-15 investors. Was it hard to raise the fund?

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APRIL 26, 2017

Eugene Cho is CEO of San Diego-based Echo Laboratories (www.discover-echo.com), a startup which is developing a new kind of microscope. Eugene Cho: We had a seed round for less than $3M, and we did a note round with the Tech Coast Angels for $2M after we won their Quick Pitch competition, over about 150 other companies.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

to San Diego. It's the source for keeping a pulse on the dynamic world of technology, reaching venture capitalists, angel investors, entrepreneurs, CEOs, social media. Funding great entrepreneurs. Helping entrepreneurs succeed. pushing CEOs and business owners to innovate to outperform the competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

And I am often approached by entrepreneurs in cities which don’t have a vibrant VC community. Thus, a desire to invest more locally where I think I have a competitive advantage. Examples include DataSift (San Fran & London), MyTime (SF) and awe.sm (SF). I travel the country a lot. Local knowledge runs deep.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

Eugene Cho is CEO of San Diego-based Echo (www.discover-echo.com), a startup which is developing a new kind of microscope. Eugene Cho: We had a seed round for less than $3M, and we did a note round with the Tech Coast Angels for $2M after we won their Quick Pitch competition, over about 150 other companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. It’s always such a pleasure for me to spend time with Farb because he has all of the enthusiasm and energy you love to see in entrepreneurs. Competition: Apple iPhone App Store Genius.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Michael Kleist: My business partner and I were both originally from San Diego. It''s also a dog-eat-dog world over there with the competition. Once you know the space, China really helps entrepreneurs. tradesparq alibaba trading international trade china entrepreneur startup kleist michael' READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili. In 2004 and 2005, I was at DivX in San Diego, and I was head of product there. Who are your core customers? I have a Ph.D.

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JULY 19, 2016

Roni Eschel: I grew up surfing competitively, and traveling the world. However, every summer, of every year since I was fifteen, I'd go to San Diego and spend a few months with family there. I guess if you are an Israeli, it's in your DNA, being and entrepreneur. Roni Eschel: There's a startup culture in Israel for sure.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Had you thought you'd be an entrepreneur when you were in college? 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. Jonathan Simkin: Certainly, it is extremely competitive.

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MARCH 13, 2020

Our cost is very low, which allows us a key, competitive advantage. We now have two loactions in San Diego, one location in Newport Beach, and one in Rodeo Drive, in Beverly Hills. Instead, we give it to them for free. The reason we can do that, is we have figured out how to manufacture them very cheaply.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Bitvore is based in Irvine, and is backed by serial entrepreneur Yuri Pikover, as well as other angels. Whether that''s for competitive analysis or market analysis, our product is basically able to monitor--on a very large scale--things that are important to your particular company. It''s designed for business people.

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

There is lots and lots of competition in the area, how is your firm different from the others? We're going to be expanding south into San Diego, into the Inland Empire, and also to Los Angeles, where we have a home edge, rather than to towns outside of California, where we don't understand the demographics and landscape yet.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

From LA Demo Day to Silicon Beach Fest to Crowdstart LA to hackathons to Startup Weekends, companies and entrepreneurs alike have joined forces to feed the startup ecosystem. I faced the same challenge not being able to form a team because most people joined the competition with friends that they had already planned on working with.

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socalTECH

MAY 8, 2015

In a world awash with on-demand startups, Los Angeles-based Serviz (www.serviz.com) stands out--not because of the market segment it is tackling, but because it was founded by two, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Zorik Gordon and Michael Kline. We're really reinventing and reimagining the delivery of home services.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

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. We were based in London.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I was immediately reminded that they were interested in seeing the slides as the main partner who had courted me at DEMO in San Diego shuffled nervously through the print outs of the slides I had sent him in advance. Experienced and serial entrepreneurs in the content management space. Page 3: Competition. Folksonomy.

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Xconomy

JUNE 15, 2016

Entrepreneurs and established companies make risky decisions every day in the hope that those risks will translate into better opportunities, better performance, and greater profitability. Bacon observed, “One thing that companies often neglect is the competitive element. People start a business for many reasons.

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