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Success, Santa Barbara Style: Patagonian Sexwax With A Side Order of UGGS

InfoChachkie

Santa Barbara has become a high-tech startup mecca, rivaling cities many times its size. Lifestyle businesses are typically looked upon with derision by investors, as they generally do not have economic metrics that lead to large exits. According to Doug, “ productivity fell dramatically whenever the surf was up.”.

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Surveying SoCal's M&A Landscape, with David Siemer

socalTECH

One of the most frequent questions from high tech startups is: where''s my exit? For a similar company, with the same metrics and stage, valuations had been tiny. If you go back to 2005 and 2006 and look at a company which would have a $5M pre- then, it''s now $8 to $10M, all else equal.