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

Xconomy

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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Kauffman Fellows Take On VC Sexual Harassment, Bench Mentor McClure

Xconomy

If you’re looking for a counterpoint to the recent flurry of news stories about sexual harassment and gender bias in the tech sector, the Kauffman Fellows program isn’t a bad place to start. A group of Kauffman Fellows is pictured above.) The network. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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

Xconomy

There has been plenty of talk since about closing biotech’s notable gender gap. 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 ” There has also been some action.

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Three Factors Which Intoxicate Venture Capitalists - Why Your Startup Will (Probably) Not Raise Venture Capital Funding

InfoChachkie

Partners at large venture firms generally believe that Orange County is the ideal geography for medical devices, San Diego for telecom and life sciences (along with Boston) and Silicon Valley for everything else. I guess no one told him about the medical startups that were purchased by Medtronic, Linvatec, Storz, Mentor, etc.,

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Interview with Kevin Hell, EvoNexus

socalTECH

A couple of weeks ago, twelve companies moved into the new downtown San Diego, EvoNexus incubator--which is run by CommNexus. Running that effort is Kevin Hell , the founder of DivX, who we caught up with to learn more about EvoNexus and how the group is trying to help grow technology startups in San Dieog.

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How DogVacay Literally Saved my Thanksgiving

Both Sides of the Table

It’s a great one about entrepreneurship, friendship and the collaborative economy that is helping families in need across the world. Every year my family meets in San Diego for Thanksgiving. I had known about DogVacay since its inception. That’s a fact. And I’m not an investor. The Background.

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“Stay Lean as Long as You Can,” and Other VC Wisdom from Mark Suster

Xconomy

In San Diego, the complaints often focus on the relative scarcity of venture capital and hometown VC firms. So when the San Diego Venture Group recruited Mark Suster of Los Angeles-based Upfront Ventures to give the keynote talk Tuesday night for Startup Week San Diego, more than 800 people filled a downtown auditorium.