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New Bootstrap Fund Pulls Itself Up in World of Health IT Deals

Xconomy

Healthtech entrepreneur Parker Hinshaw and his wife Jean Balgrosky said they intended to take a step back when they founded Bootstrap Incubation near San Diego in the fall of 2012. They came to San Diego in 1996, when Scripps Health hired Balgrosky as CIO and senior vice president. Jean Balgrosky.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Both Sides of the Table

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company, ZestCash in LA. It is the second largest city in the country with (18 million inhabitants) (vs.