Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Josh Kopelman, managing partner at Philadelphia based First Round Capital has launched Dorm Room Fund, in a move to reach out to college dorm entrepreneurs, like he was in 1992 while at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He says on his blog , “I was a dorm room entrepreneur. For Students By Students.

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Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

Plans for new incubators were announced in two different cities. Guardant is funding a series of trials around the country in people whose genetic or lifestyle profiles put them at high risk of five types of cancer. We’ve got those stories, plus a spate of financings and deals, a legal feud, and other news below.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2017

With the closing of its sixth fund announced Tuesday, San Francisco-based Versant now aims to invest in as many as 25 companies in both North America and Europe—half of those investments in “companies we create from scratch,” says Brad Bolzon, Versant’s managing director.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2016

Radicle, a new accelerator fund focused on agricultural ventures, is launching today with plans to seed and nurture the next generation of agtech companies addressing global farming problems. So far, Radicle has closed on $6 million in funding, and the accelerator expects its pot will reach up to $15 million.

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Xconomy

MARCH 21, 2018

The firms include stalwarts like Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ: KHC ) , which has an incubator and accelerator program called Springboard , and relative newcomers like the Greek-style yogurt maker Chobani , which operates an incubator that makes $25,000 investments in startups with no equity stake.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Five years ago, the big tech incubator Y Combinator started to welcome life sciences companies into its sizable startup classes, which had previously nurtured entrepreneurs in information technology almost exclusively. That opening to biotech startups in 2014 was controversial at the time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2017

founded in 2009 as a Qualcomm-incubated startup to develop software and computer systems that emulate the human brain, seems to have found a new path forward. SoftBank’s new Vision Fund has led a $114 million investment to advance the company’s artificial intelligence technology. San Diego’s Brain Corp.,

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In the nine years since San Diego’s EvoNexus incubator began amid the great recession of 2009, CEO Rory Moore has emphasized it is a pro bono program—startup teams admitted to the technology accelerator get free office space and other perks, with no strings attached. Now, for a variety of.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2011

in funding from Charles River Ventures, First Round Capital, DFJ Frontier, and angel investors. I had been doing some angel investing, and incubating several projects. I understand you managed to get funding through interest from a blog post? What are you doing with that funding? Unsubscribe.com is backed by $2.1M

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

[ Note: The headline has been corrected to better describe the company’s type of funding. Fortis Therapeutics, a new San Diego biotech, has raised $18 million in initial funding to develop drugs for hard-to-treat prostate and bone marrow cancers. 9/27/16, 2:09 p.m.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 13, 2017

The idea in 2011 was to create a space at what was then Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical research and development facility in San Diego for an “innovation center,” a place where 18 to 20 life sciences startups could incubate, replete with lab space and equipment. The first JLABS incubator opened here.

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Xconomy

APRIL 18, 2017

“Our goal is to create a platform [for both lenders and borrowers] that is just as frictionless as possible,” Taylor said at the downtown EvoNexus incubator, where he has been working with co-founder Navtej Sadhal. Sadhal and Taylor (pictured above) founded Approved in August 2015, and moved into the San Diego tech incubator.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

APRIL 22, 2010

Understand how to value you company (more to come in a future blog!) “OC’s Premier Incubator – Supporting Start-Up Businesses in Our Business Collective&#. Looking forward to launching our new LA incubator soon! Venture Capital, Business, Management, Funding, Money, SBA, Lending, Equity. www.WINopp.com.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : AngelList is the productization of raising startup funding. We are not taking the incubator approach…we would invest on the same terms alongside the other investors and we would make sure to be a very, very small piece of the round and not to crowd out anybody.”. For his exact quotes, watch the video.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

I recently wrote a blog post about why I believe that startup teams in close proximity perform better. VCs constantly share cross fund information and are therefore always getting dialed into what is going on in the industry. Anyone have positive or negative experience in such an incubator?

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Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

As you may have gathered from my blog, I’ve spent the last couple of months visiting with companies and incubators. Then get VC funding, rent a cool space, hire a big team, rebuild and relaunch. New companies are being created at stunning speed by today’s founders. If you can’t keep up, you are dead.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

I told him only 2 weeks ago when we were in London together that I wanted to write a blog post that has been in my head for 2 years. I would love for prospective investors in Dave’s fund to call me personally to learn about “the real Dave.”. When my pal Dave started his venture fund, 500 Startups, he was ridiculed.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. Now, more and more, we''re extending our use cases into not just websites and blogs, but also to lots of web application use cases.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

First it was street-style photography, then came the launch of her popular fashion blog WeWoreWhat. million in funding from Rebecca Minkoff and other unnamed investors. Naturally, these were also the first business to get funded. million in funding to date, including a recent $3.6 focused fund.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. It's a casual setupit's not an incubator, it's not an accelerator, and we're not charging anyone for space. We have a licensing business with that.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2016

Young entrepreneurs can call upon their alumni networks for advice, recruitment of key employees and even funding. Resources – Many campuses offer entrepreneurial students a variety of free resources, such as: incubators, accelerators, mentor programs, venture competitions (with meaningful prize money) and even seed funding.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

“Our focus is on priming the pump,” Steve Poizner said Friday, after providing an update on the Alliance for Southern California Innovation for board members of EvoNexus, an industry nonprofit group that operates pro bono tech incubators in San Diego and Irvine, CA. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

APRIL 25, 2019

But when looking for funding for her second company, Doctours, she says, “I kept hearing, ‘I love your idea, but I’m not sure about you being CEO.’ ” The investors O’Shaughnessy was pitching didn’t believe she fit the profile of what they. Women, finding themselves outside of the club, are now creating their own networks to do the same.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2013

Keeping track of all the new companies, funding, networking and events going on across town is challenging. Currently, it has been difficult to track the all the new startup activity, find out how large or small the team is and if they are funded or not. received funding, been acquired or exited. “To s advisory board.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

It’s been a short, but action packed few months since we were introduced to The Immunity Project ‘s goal to “develop a free vaccine for HIV/AIDS” The organization’s aptly named Twitter handle is @hackHIV and they’re the second nonprofit organization ever to be backed by Bay Area Incubator, Y-Combinator (YC).

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Xconomy

MARCH 19, 2017

Heller started at San Diego’s EvoNexus incubator, working with Glendale, CA-based Avery Dennison, a Fortune 500 company that makes adhesive vinyl films that can be applied to motor vehicles, conform neatly to automotive curves and corrugations, and can.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

Over funding often produces bad behavior in early-stage companies. It’s interesting to me that two of the most talented tech leaders of our era – Bill Gross & Paul Graham – have both opted for a model of incubation to encourage young tech entrepreneurs to build disruptive businesses. And let’s be clear.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Most startups need funding before shipping, and investors expect to see your website to validate your business plan. In addition, a website needs several weeks of presence for indexing by search engines, search engine optimization, blog activity, and link building. With stealth mode, you can’t learn early enough to pivot gracefully.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Plug and Play San Diego, established in 2013 as a satellite of the Sunnyvale, CA-based incubator, has funneled 15 local startups through the Silicon Valley program after providing some coaching and other services in San Diego.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2011

Most startups need funding before shipping, and investors expect to see your website to validate your business plan. In addition, a website needs several weeks of presence for indexing by search engines, search engine optimization, blog activity, and link building. Tune your website. These things can’t be done while in stealth mode.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO. in Computer Science. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2010

Most startups need funding before shipping, and investors expect to see your website to validate your business plan. In addition, a website needs several weeks of presence for indexing by search engines, search engine optimization, blog activity, and link building. Tune your website. These things can’t be done while in stealth mode.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping boostrapping, Funding, lean startup. . Jason Glaspey, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment). Removing the Middleman: Embedding Shopping on Your Blog. In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Funding, psychology , vc. .

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

” The project leaders are seeking $100 million in funding. —More cash for life sciences venture teams: 5am Ventures of Menlo Park, CA, announced its fifth fund , topping it off at $285 million. —Considering the biopharma acquisitions that led to buyers’ remorse this week, $100 million seems like pocket change.

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