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🐺 Aug 26 - Pack Your Week: From Life Sciences to Design Thinking Events

🐺 Aug 26 - Pack Your Week: From Life Sciences to Design Thinking Events

All the San Diego happenings you should know about

August 26, 2024

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San Diego needs more hubs—physical spaces where founders can hang out, meet other founders, and help each other.

A brief history: In around 2017, downtown San Diego had a successful hub hosted by EvoNexus. Founders could pop in as they liked, cross paths with other builders, and support each other without a formal arrangement.

However, EvoNexus left downtown and drifted away from this model all together, leaving the city with a void—made worse by COVID.

Currently, we have informal hubs centered around coffee shops. Which seem a bit different. Recurring events add some hub value to the ecosystem, but most of these events vary in time and location.

I’m not sure if we need a Lord-of-the-Rings style "one hub to rule them all." It seems like we could benefit from having many. SDx is a great example of a specialized hub that supports AI builders here. Perhaps we need a web3 hub at Edge. Both SDx and Edge host founders and events, adding valuable consistency and presence to the San Diego ecosystem. These are just two examples. There are many others.

Why do in-person hubs matter? They foster serendipity and they support ideation, problem-solving, and building better businesses.

We’re all about connections. The more places we have for coyotes to interact, the greater the chance our founders and builders will succeed and pass along their knowledge to the next generation of founders and builders.

Adding more hubs is a no-brainer for supporting connections in San Diego.

Here are the happenings you should know about:

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