Life Cycle And Journey For A Local Startup – 4/30/19

Happy almost May! The biggest news in the SD ecosystem is San Diego Venture Group (SDVG) and CONNECT merging to provide more resources to more startups, especially earlier in their journey from committed to crushing it. I am excited to see ecosystem leaders Mike Krenn and Silvia Mah at the helm of this new partnership.

In the graphic below by Startup San Diego Executive Director Jarrod Russell, you can see the life cycle and journey for a local startup and the associated organizations that help a company go from an idea (curious) to all in (committed) to scaling the validated business model (crushing it). With organizations helping at a specific stage, we all work to seamlessly hand off companies to the next organization at the right stage, ideally, and don’t have to be everything to everyone. It’s a beautiful thing and we’re doing it well in San Diego. The merger between CONNECT and SDVG will further fuel these efforts.