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8 Articles match "San Diego","Seed Funding"
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
The Tech Coast Angels is stressing its mixer program, seed investment efforts, and a new website, as it kicks off a 2010 program, according to the angel investing group. The group also said it is focusing on its SeedTrack program, which is specifically focused on seed stage funding and extensive mentoring. The group announced today that it has named the incoming Presidents of its area networks, According to the Tech Coast Angels' Richard Sudek, Chairman of the TCA, the group is looking to hold bi-monthly mixers which will help entrepreneurs connect with its angel investors, after a successful mixer in late 2009.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
I had intended to talk about how bad the process could become, not to name-and-shame anybody (and The Funded was not yet around). Well … I have had many late nights and I really didn’t contemplate writing many blog postings this month because I spent November in this interesting venture capital / fund raising dance involving lots of late night sessions reviewing legal documents, rewriting business plans and preparing for pitches. So for anybody On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. The fund--started by Brian Garrett and Rick Smith --has been focused on digital media investments, and so far has made investments in six companies. The fund is just celebrated Let's start with an overview of the fund. What do you invest in?
Brian
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The Best from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
The Tech Coast Angels is stressing its mixer program, seed investment efforts, and a new website, as it kicks off a 2010 program, according to the angel investing group. The group also said it is focusing on its SeedTrack program, which is specifically focused on seed stage funding and extensive mentoring. The group announced today that it has named the incoming Presidents of its area networks, According to the Tech Coast Angels' Richard Sudek, Chairman of the TCA, the group is looking to hold bi-monthly mixers which will help entrepreneurs connect with its angel investors, after a successful mixer in late 2009.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
SeedTrack, building off of earlier efforts by the group's San Diego and other chapters. Tech Coast Angels, the new program will provide seed funding, strategic planning, and execution of day-to-day functions of startups. The San Diego branch of the Tech Coast Angels launched their own TCA Seed Track effort way back in December of 2006, initially focused on both technology and biomedical firms; the group's other arms have funded and helped to staff a number of firms The Orange County Chapter of the Tech Coast Angels is promoting a program to help jumpstart small companies, O.C.
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Friday, July 31, 2009
San Diego-based Qualcomm reports today that it is extending the deadline for the firm's wireless business plan competition, its Qualcomm Ventures QPrize Business Plan Competition, to August 21st. The firm said it is extending the deadline for the prize to allow additional entrepreneurs to enter the prize, which will provide $550,000 in seed funding to entrepreneurs developing wireless technology in North America, Europe, China, and India. The deadline for the business plan competition was originally today, July 31st. Qualcom also said it will now award its grand
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Thursday, May 7, 2009
San Diego-based Qualcomm disclosed today that it has launched a new, entrepreneurship prize which will provide $550,000 in seed funding to entrepreneurs in North America, Europe, China, and India. From those semi-finalists, it will select a grand prize winner which will receive $150,000 in convertible note funding. According to Qualcomm, its new business plan competition--the Qualcomm Ventures QPrize competition--is aimed at promoting innovation in the wireless industry. The company will award one semi-finalists $100,000 each in each of its four markets--North America,
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
San Diego-based RealGifts has a new take on earning dollars from Facebook applications: allowing users to purchase real, tangible items from the popular social networking site. RealGifts is one of nearly 600 startups competing for funding from Facebook's fbFund, the $10M seed fund run by the Founders Fund and Accel Partners. According to RealGifts, the firm has just rolled out a new application programming interface (API) which allows other Facebook Application developers to integrate its services. The API is an extension of the firm's own Facebook application,
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Monday, October 19, 2009
I had intended to talk about how bad the process could become, not to name-and-shame anybody (and The Funded was not yet around). Well … I have had many late nights and I really didn’t contemplate writing many blog postings this month because I spent November in this interesting venture capital / fund raising dance involving lots of late night sessions reviewing legal documents, rewriting business plans and preparing for pitches. So for anybody On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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TechCrunch 50 -Attendees enjoy an action-packed agenda, including pitches, panels, working breakfasts and lunch sessions, and after parties at the San Francisco Design Center Concourse, with 125,000 square feet of networking space.
Location : San Francisco Design Center Concourse, San Francisco Ca
As 2009 draws to a close, you might want to start planning which conferences coming up, that you’ll want to attend. There There are five big ones scheduled over the next few months that are definitely worth taking a look at.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. The fund--started by Brian Garrett and Rick Smith --has been focused on digital media investments, and so far has made investments in six companies. The fund is just celebrated Let's start with an overview of the fund. What do you invest in?
Brian
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