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Santa Barbara, the stunningly beautiful California Central Coast city of 90,000, just 100 miles north of Los Angeles, is putting itself on the startup map. Hundreds of entrepreneurs, mentors and financiers are lending the human spark, technical knowhow, and capital…
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Galvanize San Francisco is an entrepreneurial hive: a tech campus, incubator and corporate innovation lab, all buzzing and thrumming in one dynamic five-story building. Smack in the heart of San Francisco’s entrepreneurial SoMa district, the community is comprised of 1,000…
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Runway, the stylish tech incubator in the Twitter building at 1355 Market Street, is the product of Allan Young’s experience and imagination. Allan is a Y Combinator alum, graduate of Seth Godin’s Alternative MBA Program, native of San Francisco’s Chinatown,…
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California is an engine of entrepreneurship for the nation and the world, and the University of California, Berkeley, founded in 1868, is the jewel of an unparalleled statewide university system. Trump recently tweeted a threat to cut federal funding for…
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