Last evening I gave a presentation on Marketing and Publicity for Startups at the Founders Institute at their 2010 San Diego session.  If you’re in the internet startup space and want to learn from the masters of Marketing and Publicity you should be following folks like Michael Arrington of TechCrunch , Jason Calacanis of Mahalo , Peter Pham of BillShrink , and Philip Kaplan of Blippy and Mark Suster of GRP Venture Capital . Marketing and Publicity for Startups Included below is the presentation I wrote and gave. 

Friday, May 15, 2009 -- 4th Annual San Diego Economic Outlook for 2009-10. The news has not been good: fearful consumers and frozen credit markets; jobs disappearing and stores closing; new cars waiting for buyers and State governments begging for cash. The 4th Annual San Diego Economic Outlook in May will discuss these issues along with a focused view of the San Diego regional economy. But after three long cold years in the housing sector, there is a little green shoot or two coming up. Can Spring be far away?

in San Diego. Kyocera said that the business will combine the sales, marketing, and service functions of Kyocera Wireless Corp. According to Kyocera, the new business will be headed by Eiichi Toriyama, who will relocate to San Diego from Japan. ...Tags: Wireless firm Kyocera Corporation disclosed this morning that the firm has created a new business, Kyocera Communications Inc. and Kyocera Sanyo Telecom Inc.,

Oxford, England-based Enigma Diagnostics , a molecular diagnostics firm, said today that it has opened up a new, regional headquarters in San Diego. office is in the Sorrento Valley, where it will house sales and marketing, assay development, regulatory and manufacturing activity. Enigma said it hopes to tap the "deep resource pool" in San Diego of in vitro diagnostics professionals. ...Tags: Enigma said the new, 17,000 sq. ft.

Kyocera Solar , a manufacturer of solar modules, said today that it is planning to begin manufacturing solar modules in San Diego, to serve the U.S. market. Kyocera already maintains its North American businesses from San Diego. The firm said it is looking to produce 1,000 megawatts of solar cells per year by March 2013 from the location. Kyocera Solar is the Arizona-based photovoltaic arm of Japanese firm Kyocera Corporation.

San Diego slipped somewhat in the amount of capital invested during the quarter, to $178.4M. Interestingly enough, San Diego — which led Q2 investments — slipped significantly in deal amounts this quarter. Perfect Market, $15.6M PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) released their quarterly MoneyTree data over the weekend, totaling up $751M in Southern California deals. Taking a closer look at the numbers, LA led the region with $385.65M in deals, but Orange County also had a strong showing with $186M in

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 -- CommNexus presents Marketing Mixer and Padres Game. Join us downtown San Diego to meet and mingle with other marketing professionals in the technology industry, and then stay to watch the Padres vs. San Francisco Giants game! We will watch the game from the Ultimate Skybox overlooking Petco Park. This is a great opportunity to meet others in your field and play ball with CommNexus' Marketing SIG!

Online marketing firm Digitaria reported earlier this week that it has hired Sunil Bhagwan as vice president of search. The San Diego-based company described Bhagwan as a veteran of the Web marketing industry with nearly a decade of leadership experience. Most recently, Digitaria noted, he was senior director of business development at interactive marketing firm Business Online. Before that, Digitaria added, he worked for WebSideStory (now Web analytics firm Omniture) and computer chip maker Intel. Founded in 1997, Digitaria also maintains offices in Los Angeles,

San Diego-based Mushroom Networks , a spinout of the University of California San Diego, said today that the firm is now applying its technology to the wireless market. The company is targeting mobile TV, enterprise markets, the military, news crews, and others who need high speed wireless internet connections. The firm, which develops technology which combines multiple Internet connections into one, faster broadband connection, said its product PortaBella takes up to four cellular data cards and creates a single, high-speed shared connection from those four cards.

San Diego-based Overland Storage, a provider of data storage products, said Thursday taht the firm has inked a strategic alliance with Mobotoix Vision Systems. Mobotix develops products for the video security and surveillance market; Overland's Snap Server provides NAS storage. According to the company, the move ties Mobotix's IP cameras in a bundle with the company's Snap Server network attached storage appliances. Financial impact of the bundling deal was not disclosed.