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

Xconomy

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

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.” Most VCs view it as their responsibility to mentor, debate, cajole and generally assist with investments they make. Take me for example. Examples include DataSift (San Fran & London), MyTime (SF) and awe.sm (SF). And it is significantly easier to help when you are local. Otherwise I’m just money.

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How Arivale Is Harnessing Genomics To Optimize Human Health and Wellness

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So, for example, if you and your family have heart health issues, that might be the first dimension where you have interesting opportunities to optimize your health. In today's world, people are lonely, and they are really looking for someone to mentor them, to guide them, to hold them accountable. READ MORE>>.

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Why Teenagers Make Great Entrepreneurs

Xconomy

Even when faced with examples of incredibly successful entrepreneurs who started their billion-dollar businesses during their college years or after dropping out of college—think Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs—many remain skeptical about high school students and their entrepreneurial capabilities.

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The Gap Has Two Sides

Xconomy

But Dartmouth’s Thayer School is an example of where culture celebrated the opportunities for women, and thereby made a statement that led more women to join in. Help gather data when asked, mentor diverse entrepreneurs, read up on best practices around the country, and call out bad behavior if it needs addressing.