SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A day might include a discussion with a finance partner, an investor, a customer or a fusion partner. Our new customer acquisition has grown and our costs have plummeted. We are actually getting paid now to obtain customers, so our customer acquisition costs are now negative. Great posts.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

Santa Barbara-based property management software developer Yardi has acquired Proliphix , a Massachusetts-based developer of energy management hardware and software, according to the company. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Barbara IP Acquisition Software Development 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Santa Barbara-based Curvature --better known under its prior name, Network Hardware Resale--said this morning that it has acquired CSU Industries , a provider of third party maintenance and support services. Curvature said the buy will help it offer more IT services, support, and equipment procurement options to its customers.

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Santa Barbara Networking Acquisition Services 138

socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Santa Barbara-based Channel Technologies Group , which manufacturers sonar and navigation systems, piezoelectric ceramics, transducers, and other products used in the defense and other industries, said this morningthat ith as acquired Materials Systems Inc. , Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Technology Santa Barbara Acquisition Customer 138

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Santa Barbara-based Impact , which develops fraud protection, marketing attribution, partnership management, and related software, said today that it has acquired Mediarails , a developer of customer relationship management and marketing automation software. Financial details of the buy were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Barbara Software Marketing Customer 100

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AUGUST 23, 2011

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the online publisher of new and used vehicle pricing that is headed by Scott Painter, said Tuesday that it has acquired ALG, Inc. , Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, however, TrueCar said that DealerTrack will receive an equity interest in TrueCar as part of the deal. READ MORE>>.

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Truecar Santa Barbara Santa Monica Pricing 150

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

I have been watching ProductPlan for several years, as the founders are both friends and pillars of the Santa Barbara Startup Community. Greathouse: Great products and companies that came out (of) Santa Barbara. We build product roadmap software – it’s a SaaS company based here in Santa Barbara, California.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Citrix Online said this morning that it is in a definitive agreement to acquired Netviewer AG , a developer of software-as-a-service tools for business collaboration. The company said Netviewer has more than 18,000 customers using its products. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Barbara Tool Software Customer 145

socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2014

Santa Barbara-based ShipHawk (www.shiphawk.com) is looking to solve the problem of pretty much shipping anything large (like cars and furniture) or unique, with its online shipping service--think "Kayak" for shipping. Who is the ideal customer for your site? With our software, it does it all in an instant. How are you funded?

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Santa Barbara Customer Custom Services 194

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In my new role as the first executive director for the Alliance for Southern California Innovation, I spent a lot of time outside of my home turf of Pasadena -- visiting innovation nodes such as San Diego, Irvine, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Venice, Santa Monica, and others.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2009

Privately held, Santa Barbara-based Make It Work , a provider of in-home computer and electronics help, has just inked its first profitable quarter, and is positioning to be ready for any change in the economic headwinds. Greenspan said the moves helped the firm lower its cost of acquisition of new customers. Tough times?

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Tech Coast Angels Santa Barbara Pricing Acquisition 100

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

As noted in Success, Santa Barbara Style , my definition of success includes living where you want to live and making money doing what you love. For many entrepreneurs in Santa Barbara, achieving such success would be much more difficult if it weren’t for the emergence of an innovative airline – Surf Air.

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Startup Santa Barbara Networking Services 100

InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

In early December of 1818, Jose de la Guerra devised a brilliant plan to thwart the French pirate Hippolyte de Bouchard who was lurking off the coast of Santa Barbara, contemplating an attack. We hosted an annual user conference in Santa Barbara, attended by a couple hundred of the world’s top surgeons.

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Entrepreneur Santa Barbara Startup Conference 168

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

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. Obsess About Customers, Not Colleagues Or Competitors. “We We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts.

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Tips Startup Framework Custom 279

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

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. We spend a lot of time listening to our customers and working with them to build the right solutions.

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He has raised more than $200 million on behalf of his companies and led more than 30 acquisitions. Pierce also led the acquisition of Xfire from Viacom. and negotiated the company’s successful acquisition by Logitech, Inc., Custom ad deals and partnerships. He continues to sit on the board of Sorenson Media.

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Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

Six outstanding entrepreneurs have created this sweet flavor of success in one of the most beautiful places on earth – Santa Barbara, California. Santa Barbara has become a high-tech startup mecca, rivaling cities many times its size. From Lynda.com ’s recent $1.5

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Santa Barbara Startup Sales Entrepreneur 100

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Cogi (www.cogi.com) recently launched a phone-based service which allows users to transcribe conference calls and meetings. And, we have our own custom signal processing technology that increases the efficiency of all those existing systems that I've just described. How's the company funded and backed?

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Santa Barbara Startup Software Review Technical Review 100

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

Greathouse : Let''s start with a question that will be especially helpful for my UC Santa Barbara students. How has this reality impacted your customer acquisition strategies? First, we create our own flagship itineraries, many of them personalized custom trips.

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Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Resource 187

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. He is also an active investor with stakes in companies like Hipmunk, GroupMe, Facebook, Zynga (acquisition stock), and SV Angels. He received a B.S.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. The difference is that VoiceXML does not leverage customers' knowledge of web development.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

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. From day one we focused on customers. Since then we’ve iterated on trying to provide our customers what they wanted next.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. Now we're in over 100 cities and have over 10,000 clients, 10,000 tutors, and a platform which is working very efficiently, and gives the customer what they want. In this industry, customer acquisition costs are super high.

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Startup Venture Capital Beverly Hills Acquisition 113

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr. Custom ad deals and partnerships. Dinesh earned his B.S.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

Dan is now CEO of Mobile1st , makers of Mobilizer, the mobile customer experience optimization platform. He then joined Picasa and was instrumental in its acquisition by Google. Dan shared his entrepreneurial insights with my UC Santa Barbara students, including the manner in which he built a virtual organization.

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Entrepreneur Santa Barbara Email Outsource Development 100

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

We did not ask them to accept our Santa Barbara, casual startup view of the world. He is a member of the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Faculty where he teaches several entrepreneurial courses. _. — If they were Hospital Administrators from the Midwest, we would don the full monty (i.e.,

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