SDEE News

August 26, 2017 SDEE Workshop:  Building Your Company with Non-Dilutive Funding  By Roberta Vezza Alexander, PharmD, PhD On Thursday, October 26, 2017, San Diego Entrepreneurs Exchange (SDEE) held a workshop on non-dilutive funding and grant writing at the Hera Hub in San Diego. SDEE members and non-members had the opportunity to network...

A conversation with San Diego City Council Member Barbara Bry on the benefits of Community Choice Energy (CCE) By Amy Duncan, Goldfish Consulting, Inc. SDEE Communications Chair Introduction Imagine 18 years from now in 2035, when you plug in your laptop, it will no longer be drawing electricity from fossil...

Explore your career options. Bioscience is exciting and important but is it the right career path for you long term? Participate in this on-campus, highly interactive course to answer this question. Key aspects of biotech are covered:  Disruptive innovation – Understand the accepted theory and how to enhance success FDA...

Member News provides an opportunity for SDEE members to share news and announcements. September Member News features Montana Molecular, Cure Match, Allele Biotechnology, MaxCyte, and Managed Lab Services.

July 13, 2017 SDEE Workshop: Financial Operations for Startups By Jared C. Hooks, PhD, Science Communicator Imagine constructing a building. Not just any building but something sleek, modern and with enough amenities to make Google nod their head in appreciation. You toil away, getting investors lined up, commissioning special pieces...

By Amy Duncan, Goldfish Consulting, Inc. In marketing, we often talk about transactional vs relational marketing. In simple terms, a business transaction is purely about making the sale; the exchange of money for value—i.e., a product or a service. A business relationship, however, goes beyond the initial transaction when both...

By Neil Thompson Are you a consultant member of SDEE? If so, read on. If you’re a SDEE member who needs advice on entrepreneur stuff, this is for you, too. Remember when you were in college and your professors would hold office hours to answer questions? Well, starting fall 2017,...

Congratulations to Crinetics! Grant will fund the development of Crinetics’ orally-available, nonpeptide somatostatin agonist drug candidate, CRN00808, to treat acromegaly, an excess growth hormone disorder. Check out their press release. 

GlobeSt.com recently sat down with Ted Jacobs, Sr Director at Cushman & Wakefield San Diego, to hear his views on the future of Life Sciences companies here in San Diego. Recent proposals to cut funding for medical research have raised concerns about the future viability of these companies. Check out the...

On June 8th, 2017, the San Diego Entrepreneur Exchange (SDEE) hosted an event to get to know your venture capitalists (VC) at the Bella Vista Social Club & Cafe and The Roth Auditorium at the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine. Barney & Barney and Marsh & McLellan Agency sponsored the...