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Plug and Play San Diego Finds Home in New Downtown Works Space

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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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Amid Gender Gap Talk, Mentor Network Emerges For Women In Health, Bio

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Morgan conference, for example, a group of 100 life science executives and others pledged to follow a list of gender diversity “best practices.” Launched last fall, a nonprofit mentoring program for women in healthcare and biotech has already signed up about 100 women, according to its founder. At this year’s J.P

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How to Raise Money When You’re Not in a Major VC Market

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Just ask the people of Portland, Seattle, Boulder, Iowa, Princeton, Dallas or countless other cities that don’t have enough venture capital. If you don’t live in a major VC zone, I have some tips for how to make it easier to raise Venture Capital. Take me for example. Ask SuperCell. Or UrbanAirship.

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Interview with Ken Rutkowski, The Founder Institute

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The Founder Institute (www.founderinstitute.com), an entrepreneurial training program that originally launched by Adeo Ressi in Silicon Valley, recently announced that it is setting up shop in Southern California, with branches both in San Diego and Los Angeles. What role do the mentors play? The mentors at the L.A.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. Brad’s start in Venture Capital. Venture Capital in Boulder and other smaller communities. “So

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The Gap Has Two Sides

Xconomy

About two years ago, I was asked to join a Babson College panel discussing the gender gap in venture capital. Having recently begun working with the National Venture Capital Association’s Diversity Task Force, I was eager to be part of the conversations that were taking place around this important issue. I accepted immediately.