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Sonos Cuts 96 Employees

socalTECH

Santa Barbara-based Sonos , which makes user-friendly, whole home music systems and speakers, has laid off 96 employees, according to multiple reports from Santa Barbara media on Friday. The cuts were reported by both the Pacific Coast Business Times and Santa Barbara Independent.

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Metacloud, Eucalyptus, Inktank: SoCal Startups Now Powering The Cloud

socalTECH

Based on a trio of recent, cloud technology acquisitions by major, Silicon Valley technology powerhouses, that would be Southern California. Three companies--all started in Southern California--have been picked up for their cloud technology over the last few months, including today''s acquisition of Pasadena-based Metacloud by Cisco Corp.;

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Coull Powers Under Armour As RevUpNet Buy Yields Gains

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UK-based Coull , a developer of technology which lets publishers and advertisers tag video products within videos, has just signed Under Armour, as the firm's acquisition of Santa Barbara-based online media agency RevUpNet starts to pay dividends.

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

It’s something I speak about quite a bit (see Social Media to Build Reputation and Reach Prospects and Social Media for Service Professionals ). Poogling events/webinar, radio show expansion and social media relationships and events. . ;) What are you doing with social media to drive business for MakeItWork? Great posts.

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Non-millennial Bootstrapping – These 50-Something Entrepreneurs Rejected VC $ And Nailed It

InfoChachkie

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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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

Tech Zulu Event

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. Peter Csathy - CEO Manatt Digital Media Ventures. Prior to joining Manatt, Mr. Csathy was President and CEO of Sorenson Media, Inc., in 2008.

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Entrepreneur Hack: This Remote Team Of 12 Generated $100M

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When I published This Remote Working Experiment Failed And Succeeded on the Wall Street Journal last year, I had no idea it would generate so much social media attention. He then joined Picasa and was instrumental in its acquisition by Google. A version of this article previously appeared Forbes.