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Carmel Valley Launch Pad

Don’t expect to see any rockets flying through the Carmel Valley skies anytime soon but a recent sign that Carmel Valley is becoming a regional epicenter of entrepreneurial activity and start ups is the establishment of a business incubator called Procopio LaunchPad at the High Bluff office of the prominent San Diego based law firm. […]

Offices along High Bluff and El Camino Real in Carmel Valley have become popular locations for law firms to open offices.  Can’t really blame them for not wanting to go downtown every day and many of their clients live and/or work nearby.  It was not too long ago that the Knobbe law firm hosted a […]

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From Napkin to National

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It was not that long ago that I found myself at lunch at TavérnaBlu in the Del Mar Highlands Center with an inventor and his business partner.  There’s no shortage of restaurants in Carmel Valley and you can count on business being transacted in most of them any given day.  If there were research to […]

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If you were to read the news, it would seem that the best places to start a business are places like Silicon Valley, Austin and Boston.  Those places all deserve their reputation, but I believe that Carmel Valley is also a great place to start or grow a business.  There are many great places to […]

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The beauty of the World Wide Web is that for those of us who live and work in Carmel Valley, this is the center of the webiverse.  The internet has enabled us to be connected with family, friends, co workers and customers around the globe from your desktop, tablet or smart phone.  While that may […]

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Sofa Surfing – A View of the Business World from Carmel Valley I often read about the difficulties of working from home and find that now that my kids are grown and moved out for the most part, working from home is a far more desirable and productive situation than any of the myriad of […]

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