Startup San Diego

JULY 8, 2025

With 1st Mondays – Summer Social and Startup Ecosystem Showcase at Kiln just four weeks, we’re excited to announce the first round of lightning talks that will be showcasing and […] The post Featured Startup Ecosystem Resources for 1st Mondays in August! appeared first on Startup San Diego.

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Startup San Diego

JULY 7, 2025

Hackfrontier brings together the brightest developers, designers, and innovators from across Southern California for 16 hours of intensive collaboration and creation.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. Background Questions Let’s start with some background questions about the business and product. What are your key Startup Metrics ? Who are the customers? Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)?

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Startup San Diego

JUNE 6, 2025

Learn […] The post Announcing Panelists for the FirstWave Innovator Workshop: Alternative Financing Solutions for Founders appeared first on Startup San Diego.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

One of the big decisions every aspiring entrepreneur has to make is when to quit your current job to devote yourself fulltime to your new startup. Others wait until the new business starts to generate revenue and profit before making the move. In my experience as a startup advisor, I find the minimum time to revenue is at least a year.

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Startup San Diego

JULY 17, 2025

It’s official, all five locations for five days of San Diego Startup Week 2025 are locked in! Join us across San Diego – Baja from October 6-10, 2025, for a […] The post All 5 Locations Across San Diego – Baja Confirmed for San Diego Startup Week 2025 appeared first on Startup San Diego.

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Startup San Diego

JUNE 24, 2025

Now there’s an easier way to stay connected, informed, and involved in San Diego’s growing startup ecosystem. The Startup San Diego Membership Portal is your personalized hub to access exclusive […] The post We’re Excited to Announce the New Startup San Diego Membership Portal! appeared first on Startup San Diego.

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L.A. Business Journal

APRIL 20, 2017

seed funding falls sharply in first quarter, Brian Lee and Ron Burkle-backed medical apparel Startup Jaanuu raises $5 million from retail execs, and Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso’s dramatic biopic releases Friday on Netflix.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 26, 2024

and if you miss projections [Email readers, continue here…] The reaction to bad news by Vs controlling the board by virtue of their power to supply additional money, often includes the threat – or reality – of starting the process to find a replacement CEO. Are angels and friends a better bet?

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Startup San Diego

JULY 23, 2025

The latest Startup San Diego Tech Report Livestream dropped two game-changing announcements that could innovate how local entrepreneurs fund and staff their ventures.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

It’s great to start with a big dream as you contemplate a new business, but finding the money you need takes more than dreaming. For example, I just read an otherwise impressive business plan last week from a first-timer who asked for $10 million to get started. Get started first on your own time and money.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 2, 2017

Looking to make EV car sharing the next perk for real estate developers, Envoy, a new Los Angeles startup has launched its first pilot. Initially, they’re starting with one apartment building and a fleet of two cars in an LA apartment complex. But, what the young startup lacks in reach, it makes up for in gumption.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Not just Tinder, Dollar Shave Club, Riot Games, CornerStone OnDemand and the companies you’ve heard of but there are large successes that are less well known but now very large startups businesses like Ring, Zip Recruiter, GumGum, Laurel & Wolf and too many other great companies to mention.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

La Jolla-based molecular dermatology startup DermTech announced today that it has raised $10M in its Series C funding round, part of an ongoing $15M financing effort by the company.

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L.A. Business Journal

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Global Eagle stock plunges after CEO and CFO resign, AwesomenessTV CEO Brian Robbins resigns, microfinance startup Tala raises $30 million, and more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2017

One of the most common complaints I hear from new business owners and startups is about the pain and difficulty raising capital. The “venture capital” model is the only option they know, where they feel they get no mercy, giving up equity and control. Create the ideal investor profile for your unique business.

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Startup San Diego

JULY 17, 2025

Join us for our 1st Mondays Summer Social and Startup Ecosystem Showcase at Kiln Rancho Bernardo on Monday, August 4th! During this event, local accelerators and incubators, investors, university, college […] The post StartupSD 1st Mondays Summer Social & SD Startup Ecosystem Showcase appeared first on Startup San Diego.

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L.A. Business Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Curisium, a Manhattan Beach–based start-up company that allows health care systems and biotech firms to contract through blockchain technology, has raised $3.5 million from investors, officials announced Thursday.

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Tech.Co

MAY 18, 2017

While the Bay Area hold the title of most prolific startup ecosystem , there’s no denying that California is a veritable gold mine of entrepreneurial talent. Los Angeles, for one, is not only brimming with innovative ideas, it’s also home to a wide range of unique startups that are solving the problems of the world.

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L.A. Business Journal

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Seed-stage companies in Los Angeles received a total of $369 million in funding in 2016, according to report from Venice tech accelerator Amplify.LA.

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socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2018

The startup, led by CEO Steve Gatena, has been based at California Lutheran University's Hub101 Incubator, and received a stealth seed funding round last year from Science and Greylock, which had not previously been announced. Pray.com offers up both iOS and Android applications that let users join their preferred "faith community".

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Alongside co-founder and longtime partner Stephan Ango, Jesse Genet has built a business with Lumi that’s already been profitable, and has just raised $9 million in venture funding to boost its growth. Read More.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

Other Disney startups such as Atom Ticket , a new movie ticketing app, partnered with the next Star Wars movie and will continue to work with Walt Disney Studios on major film releases. This corporate partnership has proven well for these startups in helping them launch their products and services into another galaxy.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

If you’re an entrepreneur who would like to see this clause in more startups please ask your VC to include it in future term sheets and link to it from their home page. “We We can unequivocally say this has started to work in the companies that we have funded since this clause was inserted. Ours is: upfront.com/inclusion.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

It starts with a category being done poorly, reimagining the experience, creating distinctive products and then constantly messaging this to the market. What started as sheets now has dozens of SKU’s. where would you even start in terms of product selection? If you tried to shop Amazon for just one of these categories?—?where

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L.A. Business Journal

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

In a deal expected to be worth at least $1 billion, Amazon will acquire Ring, a Santa Monica-based startup that makes security cameras and doorbells operated through smartphones.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2017

Los Angeles-based Famous Birthdays , which operates an online service which lets you look up the birthdays of famous people, says it has now passed 13 million unique visitors, based on numbers from December. The startup, which recently relaunched its website to add video on its many profiles, is led by Evan Britton.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2018

One of the lessons I have learned over the years as a business executive, and now as a mentor to entrepreneurs, is that if you really want employees who enthusiastically take ownership of their work, you have to start treating them like owners, not renters. They show up every day, keep a low profile, and collect a paycheck.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2022

Don’t take money, especially start–up loans, from unsophisticated investors. . I was a co–lender and assumed the chairmanship of a young startup where the entrepreneur’s cousin also loaned money under the same terms. The post The best advice startups will never follow first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 8, 2024

How to define “success” for a startup? Everyone has a vision when starting a business. Then again, with the fifty percent rule, aren’t all entrepreneurs a bit insane to start? ” The post Risk, insanity, and the 50% startup rule! Vision, risk and capital, oh my! appeared first on Official website of Dave Berkus.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We remain confident in the long-term trend that software enables and the value accrued to disruptive startups; we also recognized that in a strong market it is important to ring the cash register and this doesn’t come without a concentrated effort to do so. Venture capital is a talent game, which starts with the team that’s inside Upfront.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Hyundai Motor Group said it will jointly develop an electric vehicle platform with Los Angeles-based startup Canoo, the latest startup tapped by the automaker as part of an $87 billion push to invest in electrification and other future technologies. Hyundai Motor Group has committed to invest $87 billion over the next five years.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 7, 2023

What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Here’s a graphic from Socal CTO that illustrates the roles as they change over time: In its earliest days, a startup’s top need is often to produce a product. What does the role demand? Exploring new technologies? It might be.

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L.A. Business Journal

MAY 3, 2021

Launching a startup is like jumping off a cliff and building a hang glider on your way down, according to Nicole Emrani Green, who co-founded ecommerce gifting startup Givingli Inc.

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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

When talking to startup founders or other innovators, we always ask questions to better understand their business as a core. Start by building just enough of your product to get early CAC and CLV signals (they won’t be perfect). Conclusion Startup metrics are an invaluable tool for founders and innovators.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2021

If you want to get in better shape and haven’t read that you might start there. I started advice with the premise that no amount of exercise or food eating plan would help with long-term fitness or weight goals unless you first had a mental plan and a set of measurements to track your progress. I want to share with you how I did this.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

An edtech startup called Entity Academy — which provides women with training, in areas like data science and software development; mentoring; and ultimately job coaching — has raised $100 million on the heels of strong growth of its business, and an ambition to improve that ratio. That, too, is evolving with online engagement.

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