We have done your homework for you. Below is a list of both local and national Entrepreneurs groups. These groups are excellent for finding mentors, local resources and if nothing else, just getting inspired.
CommNexus San Diego works to accelerate the formation, growth, and success of communications technology and service companies in the San Diego region.
CONNECT operates at the nexus of the regional innovation economy. We connect research institutions, angel, venture and institutional capital providers, R&D and business development arms of corporations, leading professional services providers and trade organizations together to accelerate the commercialization of innovation. As the economy experiences a very difficult time, we should remember that there remain many unmet needs and opportunities such as healthcare, communications, environment and security. Our region is well-positioned to deliver solutions and we should do all we can to make them a reality.
EvoNexus is an incubator for early stage high tech companies in the San Diego area. The brainchild of San Diego high tech industry group, CommNexus, EvoNexus provides mentoring, education, facilities, utilities, and other services for start-up companies before they have achieved sustainability through revenues or private funding. Unlike many other incubators, EvoNexus participant companies will be under no financial or IP-licensing related obligations to EvoNexus when they graduate from the incubator. EvoNexus’s mission is to serve not only the companies accepted into the incubator, but also to serve and educate the San Diego high tech community at large. EvoNexus is a California non-profit public benefit corporation* being established as a supporting organization to CommNexus. It is supported through financial and in-kind donations.
The Council exists to foster and support the entrepreneurial spirit within the software and IT industry in San Diego, by providing an organized forum for the exchange of ideas, sharing of resources, and promotion of industry goals.