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ELC Technologies Acquired By Pourzanjani, Rahmat

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Kamran Pourzanjani , the former CEO and founder of PriceGrabber.com, and Omid Rahmat , the former CEO of Tom's Hardware, have acquired Portland- and Santa Barbara-based ELC Technologies , the development firm founded by Jonathan Siegel. ELC is known for its cloud computing applications development, and Ruby On Rails development.

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Eucalyptus Snags MySQL CEO

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Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus announced Friday afternoon that the firm has snagged Marten Mickos, most recently the CEO of MySQL AB, as its new CEO. Eucalpytus develops open source, cloud software used to manage cloud deployment, and is venture backed by Benchmark Capital and BV Capital.

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Novacoast Buys IT Firm

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Santa Barbara-based Novacoast , a provider of IT professional services and product development, said Monday that it has acquired Data Technique , a provider of IT services to the Midwest market. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. Let me answer ‘why computing needs RightScale.’ Computing is going the way of the electric grid. 5) It is 2015.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

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Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Ten Startup Tips From Amazon Founder, Jeff Bezos

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I review these tenets with my entrepreneurial students at UC Santa Barbara at the beginning of each quarter to reinforce many of the key topics we will cover in the following weeks. Every time Amazon made a change to its website, whether it be modifications to its customer acquisition funnel, upsell techniques, customer service, etc.,

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