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San Diego Angel Conference Backs Five Companies

socalTECH

The San Diego Angel Conference, an angel investing effort which is run by the University of San Diego (USD) School of Business, says it has made investments in five companies at its conference this year, worth a total of $500,000.

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If you Can’t Make Time, MakeSpace

Both Sides of the Table

When I was in college ( UCSD, go Tritons !) The first one out even won a major tech conference award. He thought he’d want to get some of his stuff back once the post trauma of the storage had passed. He wanted an Uber experience. But with storage. I was ecstatic. It resonated. I used storage. They felt the stress.

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Interview with Marc Friedmann, SciVee

socalTECH

However, it's a very large market--we peg it at around $11 billion a year, and some estimate it to be as big as $20 billion a year, including scientific journals, academic journals, scientific societies, and conferences. What's the story behind the company--I understand this started at UCSD? Can you describe how that works?

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Epic Seeks to Join Alexa, Siri as Software You Can Chat With

Xconomy

Epic is holding its annual Users Group Meeting this week, a conference that brings 9,000 employees from hospitals and clinics that use Epic’s patient records software to its corporate campus, according to company estimates. On Tuesday, following founder and CEO .

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The Importance of The Narrative

Both Sides of the Table

I went to undergrad at UCSD, which is not a place known for its Greek institutions and my father grew up in South America and had know idea what a fraternity was. Keep it human -Far too many presentations, keynote speeches, conference panels or blog posts seem wooden. Hire people who punch above their weight class.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

When my friend and the father of LA’s tech startup community Bill Gross first demonstrated his company GoTo.com (renamed Overture) on stage at a TED conference he was actually booed (True story. You can hear many other amazing stories in this 1:1 interview ). What was Bill Gross’s heretical idea as portrayed to the tech elite?

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

It’s been my experience that the more focused and intimate events far ‘out-perform’ (however you’d like to characterize it) the mega-conferences. He runs the Southern California Venture Capital Alliance (VCA) and is on the board of advisors for the venture capital fund of the UCSD Rady School of Business.

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