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DECEMBER 10, 2018

Santa Barbara-based Sonos said on Monday that it has named a new Chief Legal Officer. According to the firm, Eddie Lazarus, who was most recently General Counsel and Chief Strategy Officer for Tribune Media Company from 2013 to 2018, will join the company in Santa Barbara on January 2nd.

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JULY 27, 2021

Santa Barbara-based speaker and music system developer Sonos and outdoor brand The North Face said Monday that the two are in a new partnership, to help promote the new Sonos portable speaker, the Sonos Roam. Financial details of the partnership were not announced.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2016

Activities Vs. Results. Unlike entrepreneurs, whose survival is similarly based on their ability deliver value to their customers, politicians and big company executives routinely confuse activities with results. We took a similar shared-success approach with our employees, many of whom were my former students at UC Santa Barbara.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

The exit activity has been far and wide across the region, ranging from Santa Barbara to San Diego, and providing stunning returns for a large list of venture and angel investors in those companies.

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DECEMBER 7, 2012

percent of private jobs in the technology sector, ranked at number 13 nationwide; Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta had 8.9 Finally, Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine was ranked number 25, just making the list, with 8.2 The top ranked area in the nation, which was San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, had 28.8

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Instead, grab your surfboard and head to UC Santa Barbara. Although UCSB has room to grow with regard to the total number of VC-backed startups it generates, the Santa Barbara region fares well when its relative size is taken into account. Image Credit: University Of California, Santa Barbara.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Superconductor Technologies , the developer of superconducting materials which was, until recently, located in Santa Barbara, said earlier this week that it has spun off a subsidiary working on its Reconfigurable Resonance (RcR) technology. is looking to find financing before actively developing its technology. will be based.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Santa Barbara-based software developer Yardi has acquired Optimus EMR , a developer of software used for managing long term care. Optimus EMR's software is ued to manage resident care and clinical activities. Optimus EMR's software is ued to manage resident care and clinical activities. The company was founded in 2001.

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APRIL 5, 2010

billion in venture activity here in Q1, up significantly from around $997M tallied in Q4. for Santa Monica electric vehicle firm Coda Automotive. Father north, in Santa Barbara, Sonos scored $25.0M Tags: southern california angeles venture capital diego santa barbara startup investment finance.

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OCTOBER 18, 2010

Looking to take on comparisons between products, services, and other information, a new startup, FindTheBest.com , has emerged in Santa Barbara. The startup--which bills itself a "comparison engine"--is headed by DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor , an active technology investor and industry notable. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Santa Barbara-based CytomX Therapeutics , a biotechnology firm developing antibodies, said this morning that it has raised $30M in a Series B funding round. CytomX was started in 2008, based on research out of UC Santa Barbara. The round was led by Third Rock Ventures, and also included the Roche Venture Fund.

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OCTOBER 28, 2011

Santa Barbara-based zuuka , the publisher of the iStoryTime line of interactive children's books for the iPhone and iPad, said today that it has launched the Puss In Boots Movie Storybook , an interactive book for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad today. iStoryTime said the book is available today in the App store for $2.99.

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

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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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Aurrion's technology is aimed at allowing active components such as lasers and amplifiers to be fabricated on silicon wafers.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 22, 2012

I recently posted about the Increase in Early-Stage Startup Activity in Los Angeles. In that post, I mentioned how one of the signals is the big increase in number of startup events and the number of attendees at those events.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2014

Rather than attempting to master the new activity, I would moved on to another task, seeking a gentler learning curve. My frustration with new activities was heightened by my desire to be "the best." As shown below, most people do not realize their incompetence at the outset of a new activity. Public Sucking. Left Australia.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Below is a talk on New Venture Investing from the University of California Santa Barbara’s Technology Management Program, by Jim Andelman. In this capacity, he is responsible for driving the fund’s investment activities, as well as the firm’s operations. Jim is a co-founder and General Partner of Rincon Venture Partners.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

A Santa Barbara based company, Milo Sensors, is tackling this problem via a wearable that constantly alerts your smartphone of your blood alcohol level. We started Milo Sensors over two years ago through the UC Santa Barbara New Venture Competition. I love origin stories. What was the company’s genesis?

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

One of the most active areas of interest and growth in the technology industry today is cloud computing--the use of computing resources on the Internet, to accomplish tasks that normally would have taken a server farm or local systems. RightScale. Funding: $42.5M, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Tenaya Capital [ Profile ].

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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. We were in the center of the activity and thus would soon race against everyone else, many with much deeper pockets.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

range of software products, and which has offices in Calabasas and Santa Barbara. RightScale is one of a number of enterprise software and open source companies to emerge in the area, and is based in Santa Barbara. The firm--which was started in the quiet and. Todd Gitlin of Safire Partners, an executive.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2012

Seth began his entrepreneurial career when he dropped out of the University of California, Santa Barbara at 19 years old to start a clothing company, which he eventually built into a national line of denim products featured at Nordstrom, Macy’s and Neiman Marcus.

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APRIL 8, 2009

Santa Barbara-based InTouch Technologies , which develops robotic telepresence sysetms for the health care industry, revealed this morning that it has settled a legal dispute with HeadThere Inc. over the firm's patents.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Other large deals include Santa Barbara-based CytomX , with a $30.0M The biggest investments in Southern California for the quarter were for San Diego's SkinIt , a maker of customized "skins" for electronic devices, with $60.0M funding, fellow San Diego cloud computing firm RightScale , with $25.0M in funding.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

The full list follows: 13 EdgeCast Networks 21406% Santa Monica Alex Kazerani 15 Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 18798% San Diego Pedro Lichtinger 22 Phone Power 7642% Winnetka Ari Ramezani 23 TeleSign Corporation Software 7534% Marina del Rey Steve Jillings 26 FastSpring 6742% Santa Barbara Dan Engel 30 Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 20, 2012

As part of the UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, Emmy Award winner Seth Epstein and current Founder and CEO of SocialStay , described seven practical, hands-on techniques entrepreneurs can use to enhance their overall awesomeness. Be An Active Listener. Seth agrees.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

There are of course many Seed VCs who take board seats, don’t over-commit to too many deals and try to help with “company building” activities to help at a company’s vulnerable foundations. And the truth is that several entrepreneurs prefer it this way. So in a way it’s self selecting. just to name a few!

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

The addition of children to a marriage further vulcanizes age segregation, as the relationships parents create through their children''s activities are typically with other parents of a similar age. As a Professor at UC Santa Barbara , I am blessed to work with enterprising and talented entrepreneurs in their early 20''s.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2015

After studying at UC Santa Barbara''s entrepreneurial program , he returned to Spain, excited to start a venture and make a positive impact on his homeland. There have been many examples of Spain''s anti-entrepreneurial efforts, including forbidding Airbnb and Uber activities. He founded Alpha Origins in 2011.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Whereas we had four partners investing Fund IV we now have six partners actively looking at deals for Fund V. Geographically our strategy is to fund about 50% of our deals in Southern California (from San Diego to Santa Barbara) and 50% of our deals on a national basis.

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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. Road Rules.

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

He overheard me talking about Steve Jobs in conjunction with the entrepreneurship class that I teach at UC Santa Barbara. I regularly bring successful entrepreneurs into my UC Santa Barbara classroom. I recently met a highly successful photojournalist, by happenstance, at a coffee shop.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

We have always been kind of under the radar, and haven't had lot of publicity, but we're one of the most active funds in the market. We've been doing that out of LA, which is our bread and butter, because of the great entrepreneurs we have here in our backyard. Any lessons you have learned now that you're now on your fourth fund?

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 7, 2013

So it was about in the 2004 timeframe that I made my first trip to Santa Barbara. Kerri's second story involves her relentless pursuit of activities intended to spark her young daughter's passions. She is nine years old and like most parents, we have enrolled her in a slew of activities over the years.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I spent my week applying the new skills I obtained from attending conferences, reading and engaging in Twitter activities. Tags: Daily Diary eric david greenspan make it work computer loan modification mini cooper santa barbara sonos tech news technology tweetdeck Twitter.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I spent my week applying the new skills I obtained from attending conferences, reading and engaging in Twitter activities. Tags: Daily Diary eric david greenspan make it work loan modification sonos Twitter tweetdeck technology computer tech news santa barbara mini cooper.

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JULY 13, 2009

GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. We just did a deal with Rincon Ventures on a deal in Santa Barbara, and we're partnering with other firms on deals, and we'd like to see more.

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