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We Started an Event!
You know what they say: you can learn by reading books and watching videos, but until you do it yourself, you don’t really learn. With that in mind, we threw together a last-minute event to fill the gaps during a slower Valentine’s Day week.
Ready for a little irony? I’m not the biggest fan of being the center of attention. Please don’t throw me a big birthday party. I had used that excuse to avoid organizing events. Well…
I noticed a gap in our community. We have a lot of people working solo!
There’s a theory that with the rise of AI, even more people will go solo. Great for builders. Not so great for connection.
Then there’s another group that overlaps but faces a different kind of isolation: remote workers.
Okay, neat. So what happened? Like true experienced planners, we put the event out one day in advance on a Monday for a Tuesday meetup. Click data shows that people like to plan the week of, so maybe we weren’t completely unhinged.
Turns out, 12 spots filled up fast (our original cap), so we expanded to 20. In the end, 14 people showed up. We even got a request to host another one in OC. Sorry, we’re SD-focused, but still a cool data point.
All this to say: there are plenty of gaps out there, and it doesn’t take something huge to make an impact. If you’ve got an idea, let’s chat.
One last yip: something came out from last week’s Social Coyote. There’s now talk about a North County Founders Mixer happening a little further south. Hussein found a need and filled it, and plenty of others would love to see that event expand. So stay tuned.
Enough howling for now. Let’s dive into the week and get connected.
Here’s what we can get excited about this week:
🐺 Tuesday, February 18
North County SD Retail & EComm Startup Mixer at 5:30 PM - Encinitas
($) Founders Live San Diego at 6:00 PM - Downtown
SDx Paper Club - DeepSeek R1 at 6:00 PM - Kearny Mesa 🐾
🐺 Wednesday, February 19
($) Hack Your Heart Out! FirstWave Innovator HackNight at 3:30 PM - Torrey Highlands 🐾
($) Data Discourse: Fireside Chat about Data, AI, and Governance at 4:30 PM - Liberty Station
San Diego CX Meetup at 5:30 PM - Liberty Station
🐺 Thursday, February 20
($) Invest in Cures at 9:00 AM - UCSD 🐾
Learn, Launch, Love: Building Better AI with Rick Moy at 5:00 PM - UCSD 🐾
Real Talk: Power of the Pivot at 6:00 PM - Kearny Mesa
🐺 Friday, February 21
SD Founders Surf: Breathwork & Surf or Beach Walk at 6:30 AM - San Elijo State Beach
This week’s coyote is brought to you be PEO Distillery.
What’s PEO? If you don’t know, you probably don’t need it. As you were.
But if you do know, then you need to talk to Trevor, founder of PEO Distillery. His mission is for PEOs to compete for you business. When they compete you save 30-40%. Plus, you have a solution you can scale with.
Why chat with Trevor? We’ll, he’s a chess coach, pickleball junkie, skier and rock climber just to name a few (out of order)
But his real vodka tonic (if you will) is helping growing companies hire quickly and compliantly, then get back to building their startups.
Howl at Trevor and he’ll promise you a tall glass of at least 5 PEO quotes in 5 days.
Here’s what we can get excited about next week:
🐺 Monday, February 24
Health Tech Nerds at 5:30 PM - Carmel Valley
🐺 Tuesday, February 25
Carlsbad Life In Action Gathering at 5:00 PM - Carlsbad 🐾
Lenny’s Newsletter Meetup at 5:30 PM - Carmel Valley 🐾
No Agenda - Sports Tech at 5:30 PM - Encinitas
Indie Hacker Happy Hour at 6:00 PM - Clairemont Mesa 🐾
Research-Driven Design and Empathy in Health Care at 6:00 PM - Kearny Mesa
🐺 Wednesday, February 26
North County SD Startup Mixer at 5:30 PM - Encinitas 🐾
SD CTO Talks | Let's build some LLM Agents at 6:00 PM - Downtown
San Diego Cyber Group Meetup at 6:00 PM - Mission Valley
Thursday, February 27
($) SDAC: Angel Academy Day 1 at 11:00 AM - SDSU
SDEE Happy Hour at 5:30 PM - Miramar
Friday, February 28
($) SDAC: Angel Academy Day 2 at 9:00 AM - SDSU
Final Friday | SD Tech & Pickleball at 3:00 PM - La Mesa
Howling in Public:
Want a personalized rundown of the San Diego tech and event scene? I just launched an Intro page and you can book time with me here
It’s funny, the Super Coyote feedback is more about wanting to support our mission and less about the product itself. That’s both awesome and a signal to head back to the drawing board.
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Happy Monday,
Jonah “the Howl Guy” 🐺
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Thanks Bill of all the howling!
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