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APRIL 30, 2014

In order to support all of these teams, there are several on-campus startup competitions every year, from the Silicon Beach USC competition to the New Venture Seed Competition, with prize funds to help build the companies. The post HipTraveler | Taking Startup Competitions by Storm appeared first on TechZulu.

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

San Diego-based Trust & Will , a startup which offers up online services to help people create trusts, wills, and guardianships, has raised $6M in a new funding round, the company said on Tuesday. The startup had announced $2M in an earlier funding in January of 2019. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 24, 2019

A new, Los Angeles-based startup, Wheels --founded by the founders of dog walking marketplace Wag--has jumped into the crowded "last mile" transportation fray, saying it has raised $37M and launched its services in San Diego. The startup was founded by Jonathan and Joshua Viner, the two brothers who founded Wag.

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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. 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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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Opendoor has opened the door, so to speak, for startups to apply their technical expertise in search, marketplaces and audience segmentation to rethink the very antiquated and analogue world of property. The funding is being led by QED Investors; Founders Fund, Susa Ventures, Navitas Capital, and Prudence Holdings also participated.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

In what is a fairly unusual move, last week, Tradesparq (www.tradesparq.com), a Chinese startup in the area of B2B trade information, said it was planning on setting up its operations here in Southern California, as part of an expansion and scaling of the company. Michael Kleist: We started in 2010. What is Tradesparq?

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 20, 2019

The feature illustrates how Postmates, one of the earlier entrants to the billion-dollar food delivery wars , is trying to remain competitive by appealing to price-sensitive customers. Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Phoenix, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Orange County, Calif. and Philadelphia. billion valuation.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

San Diego-based Daasity (www.daasity.com)  which just raised $2.3M in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. What does your startup do? What's your background, and how did the startup come about?

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Newly funded and launched startup Crash --backed by Idealab--said today that it has launched its iOS-based attraction discovery app and website. The startup, led by Erick Laubach, said that the application lets anyone be their own tour guide, and explore attractions which "make a city unique."

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AUGUST 31, 2012

MightyText , a Silicon Valley startup which develops Android applications to let users send SMS messages from their computer via the cloud, and syncs those messages between an Android phone and computer, has scored $100,000 from San Diego's Qualcomm. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Small Business Administration as a Growth Accelerator Fund Competition winner. It also got me thinking about what was important for winning this competition. The mystartupXX accelerator is focused on providing mentorship, education, and funding to female-led technology-based startups at UC San Diego.

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MARCH 16, 2015

San Diego-based 2pointb , a new startup aiming at the on-demand transportation market, said over the weekend that it has launched a new, mobile on-dnd ride and transportation app. Like Uber, the company offers up luxury black cars and SUVs, along with taxis as part of its service. READ MORE>>.

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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. The startup is backed by the Tech Coast Angels and Dolby Ventures. How did you start the company? So, we quit our jobs and started working full time on the company.

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OCTOBER 25, 2018

So how much room remains for startups that are relative latecomers? Plenty, says Chon Tang, one of the leaders involved in launching a new program for chip developers at UC Berkeley’s growing startup accelerator SkyDeck. Competition isn’t the biggest problem in a field so primed for innovation, says Tang, who is.

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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. How did the company start? Noah Auerhahn: We got started right out of USC.

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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. Who is providing the funding and backing for the company? How does this work?

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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. The startup is backed by the Tech Coast Angels and Dolby Ventures. How did you start the company? So, we quit our jobs and started working full time on the company. but internationally.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Kristina Tsvetanova says she found the motivation for her startup Blitab in 2014, when a blind colleague’s struggle to communicate via the Internet made her conscious of the barriers facing visually impaired people in a digital world. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2016

San Diego-based Sirenas , which has developed technology to rapidly isolate and synthesize potential drug compounds from marine organisms, said it has received a $775,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Sirenas mounts underwater expeditions three or four times a year to collect organisms, Esquenazi said.

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APRIL 16, 2010

One of the types of startups we see most of nowadays, are private sale, limited time bargain, and local group buying startups. One of those startups is Orange County-based DealPerk.com (www.dealperk.com), which is headed by Albert Ko. I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. This blog post ended up on Valleywag (which had much bigger presence back then). Anyway, the starting point for this blog entry is a cartoon I remember reading in the New Yorker.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

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. They sign up through a web portal, online, and they create a resource pool.

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MAY 19, 2015

On-demand, delivery startup Schlep and Fetch (www.schlepandfetch.com) wants to be the place you contact first to get practically anything delivered for you, whether that's a food order or something you forgot to pick up from home. We spoke with co-founder Bryson Strauss about the startup. That's what we're here to do.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2016

Given the stellar startup careers of non-college graduates like Zuckerberg, Ellison, Disney, Gates, Jobs, Branson and Dell, the answer to this question might surprise you. In each case, the students were glad they remained in school and snagged their diploma before launching their startups. . In sports, outliers generate headlines.

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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. Startup Weekend is a 54-hour frenzy in which a group of strangers can come together to form a company and compete for prizes.

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JUNE 3, 2016

It was fitting this week that, in the lead-up to two of biomedicine’s biggest self-celebrations, we were served ample reminder of the industry’s expensive decisions gone wrong. Thousands of others will head to San Francisco for BIO, which has a distinct international flavor. Teva nabbed deutetrabenazine in its $3.2

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JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. The reality of most startups is about survival. If people don’t know the mission there is no way to achieve the objective and you end up with a team pulling in 100 different directions – even if only by small amounts.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Revolution Prep announced its first, institutional round of funding, worth $15M, from Kennet Partners. How did Revolution Prep start? We started in 2000. It was us, funding ourselves from credit cards, literally, to a company that is now on par with Kaplan and Princeton Review.

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JANUARY 15, 2014

San Diego-based Qualcomm Ventures , the venture investment arm of Qualcomm, has kicked off its annual venture competition, the QPrize , dangling seven $100,000 regional prizes and a $150,000 grand prize. Qualcomm said the deadline for the startup competition this year is April 18th. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 31, 2013

In the world of mobile app and Internet startups, it''s not that often that you see companies who touch the hardware side of the world get funding nowadays. One of the companies that has recently is On Ramp Wireless (www.onrampwireless.com), a San Diego company in the M2M market headed by Kevin Hell.

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

A new mobility company, Cerence , is making its public-market debut Wednesday, and its first CEO, Sanjay Dhawan, says he’s been meeting with more than 50 investors in recent weeks to talk up its prospects.

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JULY 19, 2016

In 2015, Cybersecurity startups saw 332 funding deals with investments hitting the highest ever at $3.8 New funds have been raised dedicated to this segment. Symantec Forces the Industry to Stay Competitive. A Startup’s Opportunity to Thrive. billion (235 percent growth over 5 years).

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

But the end result was incredibly valuable, so looked at that end result and we were able to optimize our campaigns and be more efficient than our competition. Yet, I couldn’t duplicate what I had very easily, so I went back to the drawing board and came up with a new design and Cojoin is that new design. The other is messaging.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

If the data held up in wider testing, it could mean that hepatitis C could be cured someday with a short course of pills, without the flu-like symptoms that dogged regimens of the past. “It But the drugs aren’t cures, and competition looms. Has Vertex has learned from its past missteps? We’ve learned a lot from that experience.”.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2008

San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags. The firm is announcing a substantial Series D funding round today, so we spoke with the firm's CEO, Jason Howe, to get the details on the company and what it's doing.

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AUGUST 26, 2016

Mylan bumped up the price of the EpiPen 400 percent, presidential nominee Hillary Clinton responded with a tirade against drug price hikes, and—much like when Clinton railed against drug pricing last year—biotech indexes promptly plummeted more than 3 percent. —Pfizer wasn’t done after scooping up Medivation.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Last Week, Calabasas-based Masher Media announced it had received a round of angel funding from the Tech Coast Angels to fund its development of MyMiniPeeps (www.myminipeeps.com), a virtual world for children. Why start another one? When I first started ZooKazoo.com, my then 9-year old daughter asked--what can I be?

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