San Diego Entrepreneur spotlights San Diego’s enterprising people and their ventures. The Daily Transcript is also teaming up for this year's Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards. Find out who made the cut inside.
Recently, a young San Diegan was selected by Forbes magazine as one of nine All-Star Student Entrepreneurs, setting up a feature of the recent San Diego State University graduate in the magazine’s online and print editions in August.
Small-business owners still have time to take advantage of a unique, Small Business Administration loan program to refinance commercial real estate debt.
For more than 25 years, Ernst & Young has celebrated the entrepreneurial spirit of men and women pursuing innovation and entrepreneurial excellence in their businesses, their teams and their communities.
What is the real difference between good and great when it comes to an entrepreneur? Why do some people choose to start a business, take on new challenges, evolve and thrive, while others accept the status quo?
Silvergate Bank, which recently reported its highest annual earnings (2011) in its 24-year history, is a San Diego-based business bank that specializes in helping businesses grow through the provision of innovative, customized banking programs and products tailored specifically to each company’s needs. The bank has assembled a carefully selected team of small-business banking experts, all of whom are committed to providing customers with a fresh and approachable banking experience.
Tom Gildred
Dave Alberga & Matt Landa
Sue Farrow
Reid Carr
Scott Dennis & Alex Kunczynski
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This inaugural edition of San Diego Entrepreneur celebrates the intrepid spirit and innovative thinking of the people who shape our region and business landscape for the better.
Brad Chisum, co-founder and CEO of Lumedyne Technologies, admits his company is wooed by investors all the time to move to the Bay Area.
Despite not even being old enough to rent a car in California at the time he started his business a few years ago, Chris Clark has done something in late 2011 and early 2012 many California business owners would love to boast: He added enough employees to triple his staff.
While in the M.B.A. program at San Diego State University in the spring of 2010, Jenny Amaraneni had to read a book.
The Daily Transcript revisits three of last year's Tech Innovations finalists. Here's how they've fared over the last year.
The Daily Transcript revisits three of last year's Tech Innovations finalists. Here's how they've fared over the last year.
To be the CEO of two early-stage companies, at the same time, and working with two brilliant serial entrepreneurs is not an easy task, but Diane Goostree handles it with aplomb.
Small businesses that need money can’t get a loan, and those that can get a loan are finding a way around it.
Steve Ogles first got into the camera business in the early 1970s because he wanted to take pictures of his friends surfing.
Dale Stein doesn’t ever want to retire. It just doesn’t make sense to him.
Growing up in San Diego with a stepfather who was a general contractor, Bob Noble remembers reading The Daily Transcript at a young age and learning about construction, even before he understood what the word “architect” meant. When he did become an architect, stepping into construction and design-build projects was a natural transition.
The simple grievance of greasy fingers one gets when eating while gaming was enough motivation for Keith Mullin to start a company whose mission was to find the solution.
He sequenced the human genome in 2001, three years ahead of the public human genome project's schedule, using a “shotgun sequencing” method that is still the industry standard today.
Ty Hauter's reputation for successfully branding and marketing restaurants and bars in the capricious hospitality industry is attracting a lot of attention. The 25-year restaurateur and entertainment veteran is foreseeing a bright future for downtown San Diego.
Assiduous entrepreneur James Brennan — co-owner of San Diego exclusive nightclub Stingaree, as well as restaurants Searsucker, Burlap and Gingham — is planning on opening 15 restaurants in the next few years.
May 7, 2013 -- George Chamberlin talks with Tom Tullie, chairman/president/CEO of ecoATM, about how the company's service works and Tullie's plans to grow it. Tullie is a semifinalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2013 San Diego awards.
Join The Daily Transcript as we honor the recipients of this year's Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards.
Join The Daily Transcript as we honor the recipients of this year's Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards.
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