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What You Missed On Your Holiday Vacation, SoCal Technology Edition

socalTECH

In the latest roundup of fundings (big few weeks for San Diego, apparently): PatientSafe Solutions ($20M, San Diego, mobile health). Solarflare ($22M, San Diego, high speed networking). Ignyta ($6M, San Diego, personalized medicine). Independa ($5M, San Diego, software for senior independence).

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How We Won $50,000 Award in SBA Growth Accelerator Fund Contest

Xconomy

The mystartupXX accelerator is focused on providing mentorship, education, and funding to female-led technology-based startups at UC San Diego. When the mystartupXX accelerator started in 2012, we had a very small class of startups in the program. Next, demonstrate your success.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

The basic components are obvious: talented founders, great engineers, angel money, venture capital, access to larger corporates (for business, funding & talent), great education / research (for IP breakthroughs) and a sufficient ecosystem of mentors, advisors, executive coaches and mavens.

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