I hope you are all staying safe and healthy during the quarantine. With this new “normal” of our lifestyles and work setting in, it’s incredible to see our community come together and our resiliency to help our health care workers continue to save lives. This week, our senior writer Andrea...
As busy entrepreneurs, how much time do we all really have every day? As a founder of a startup, you’re pulled in every direction. Despite this, I want to have the conversation on why you should help your startup community and the founder who’s a step or two behind you. I recently was asked to...
It’s mid-February and we’re already talking about San Diego Startup Week May 26-30! In fact, I already booked my hotel to stay the week downtown. For anyone else planning to stay locally, I booked at the Horton Grand Hotel. Have you bought your ticket and checked out all the speaker sessions...
Welcome to February 2020. January was sobering as Kobe Bryant’s death affected me more than I was expecting. I was born and raised in LA and Kobe was always there, grinding out to be the best at what he does. I would say it took me five days to really shake past the shock and channel it towards...
In December 2018, the stock market got wild and everyone was talking about a recession in 2019. Or at least I did in my 2018 year wrap up. I was obviously wrong, so read my 2019 wrap up and 2020 look ahead and let’s take bets on the local tech ecosystem for one year from now! We’ve had some big...
Happy new decade! Ten years ago, I was living in LA and working on the Space Shuttle, and now my team and I are helping to build startup ecosystems. Along those lines, you may not know everything our Fresh Brewed Tech team is up to. Behind the scenes of this media company is a team that is writing...
This is the last newsletter of the year, and of the decade! There is a lot to cover. First off, we are thrilled to announce Startup San Diego has hired a new Executive Director. Alexa-Rae Navarro , a UCSD alum, has spent the last eight years immersed in the Los Angeles startup world and is coming...
Today is Giving Tuesday. It’s a great reminder that while we may be in the early stages of building our companies, we still have it so much better than others. Thanks for giving what you can - time, energy, financially to those who aren’t as lucky as some of us are. Speaking of giving back,...
During this time of year I am reminded of being thankful for so many people who have helped me on my entrepreneurial journey, and our ecosystem at large, paving the way for entrepreneurs to start game-changing companies. As entrepreneurs, we are pulled in many directions to be both tunnel-vision...
Happy November! For those still getting over their Halloween hangover, I hear you. I’m recovering from the rush of last week’s QuickPitch, where we saw a diverse group of founders in terms of industries represented. In the end, two OC-based companies took home the top honors , Agtools and...
