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San Diego VC Funding Hits $547.2M in Q1; Ideaya Leads Top 10 Deals

Xconomy

Venture capital investors sank $547.2 million into 37 startup companies throughout San Diego County during the first three months of 2018, maintaining roughly the same level of venture funding seen in recent quarters, according to the Venture Monitor Report.

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Xconomy Guide to Best Sessions at Startup Week San Diego

Xconomy

Startup Week San Diego, like a lot of other places that host similar events, has been billed as a weeklong celebration of entrepreneurship. Seattleā€™s UP Global, now part of Techstars, oversees the operation of Startup Week and other programs for tech entrepreneurs across the U.S. and abroad.

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San Diego Startups Raise $287M in Third Quarter, and Top 10 Deals

Xconomy

Venture Capital investments in San Diego startups fell by roughly a third during the three months that ended September 30, according to data released recently by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. VC firms invested $280.6 VC firms invested $280.6

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San Diego Social Media Startup Soci Adds Austin Office, Raises $8.5M

Xconomy

Soci, a San Diego startup that created a Web platform for managing social media, has closed on $8.5 The five-year-old startup, which had 35 employees five months ago when it was named as a 2017 Xconomy San Diego company to watch , now has 50 employees.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

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. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill. My blog was wiped out. And covered we did.

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From Startup Week San Diego: The World According to Jason Calacanis

Xconomy

In a keynote talk Tuesday night that was a headliner event for Startup Week San Diego, Calacanis observed that it doesnā€™t feel like the millennial generation is doing as well financially as their parentsā€™ generation.

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ā€œStay Lean as Long as You Can,ā€ and Other VC Wisdom from Mark Suster

Xconomy

What does it take to build a startup in todayā€™s market? Put a half-dozen entry-level tech entrepreneurs together anywhere outside of the Bay Area, and it wonā€™t take long before they start listing the local market deficiencies. In San Diego, the complaints often focus on the relative scarcity of venture capital and hometown VC firms.