InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

Santa Barbara has become a high-tech startup mecca, rivaling cities many times its size. According to Doug, “ productivity fell dramatically whenever the surf was up.”. Three decades later, it has matured into a multi-hundred million dollar product category. UCSB alum Doug Otto had two.

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Although Los Angeles has become a hub for the high tech startup world, Surprisingly, one of the things which hasn't happened in the Los Angeles area is any huge, successful venture acceleration programs. I helped them raise a few rounds of funding, ran their European operations. That was five or six years ago, 2005 or so.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

One of the most frequent questions from high tech startups is: where''s my exit? There''s tons of activity, and lots of companies getting funded. There have been a lot of new angel investors coming out of the woodwork, and lots of companies getting pretty good funding and valuation.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

The National Science Foundation mainly funds professors to do research. Innovation in the end is about creating products, but largely the federal government doesn't make products; it buys them. In any case, right now (generally) Congress is debating funding for programs authorized in the COMPETES Act.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

The $30 billion trade surplus in advanced technology products that America enjoyed just one decade ago has now become a $56 billion deficit. In most cases, no patent means no financing, no new products, no new jobs, and no new industries for tomorrow. Offer meaningful incentives to bring back high-tech manufacturing.

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