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UCSB Tops Harvard & Wharton In Startup Wars

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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. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Am I biased?

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Kevin O'Connor, ScOp Venture Capital, On Startup Success and Investments

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Kevin sold his last company, Santa Barbara-based Graphiq, in July of 2017 to Amazon, but has a long history of successful companies, including founding DoubleClick. What types of companies are you making investments in? Congrats on the new name for your venture capital firm. Tell us a little bit about the firm?

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Susan Cooney

Tech.Co

A serial entrepreneur, Susan has a record of building value and community across several genre-defining companies. She’s also an advisor, mentor and investor in several startups. Susan graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara and is the author of ‘The e-Auction Insider’ by McGraw-Hill.

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13 Ecosystem Builders That Are Boosting Startup Growth

Tech.Co

The barriers to entry when it comes to launching a company require less tension and a lot less capital. In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. BlackTech Week (Miami, FL).

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How to Raise Money When You’re Not in a Major VC Market

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You can build a meaningful company just about wherever these days. ” Most VCs view it as their responsibility to mentor, debate, cajole and generally assist with investments they make. They also view it as a responsibility of the money they manage on behalf of others to provide oversight of these companies. Not easily.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. The new fund is focused entirely on technology companies. That was quite a prominent exit for us.