Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. And the truth is that several entrepreneurs prefer it this way. By definition?—?I’m dot-com bonanza. Seed has become an option factory for many.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2015

Despite the fact that I teach entrepreneurship at UC Santa Barbara , I do not believe that entrepreneurs are created in classrooms. Instead of trying to teach students to be an entrepreneur, I expose my entrepreneurial students to tools that will help them solve real-world problems. Image: Pixabay. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 7, 2011

My entrepreneurial students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, often ask my advice regarding their career choices. Advice For Emerging Entrepreneurs. In a company’s early days, it is often the developers and product marketing team who must create the product. " Robert Frost, American Poet. Monkey See.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Later today I’m presenting at the annual Rincon Ventures Summit in Santa Barbara. There is a mythology amongst some LPs (funds that invest in VCs) and some VCs that “entry price doesn’t matter – only investing in the absolute best entrepreneurs.” Much as tech companies & VCs hate to admit it.

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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. At Computer Motion, we created two alliances, comprised of a dozen companies with an aggregate market capitalization in excess of $28B.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2016

The reality television show Shark Tank makes for entertaining content but many of its underlying messages are potentially detrimental to tech entrepreneurs. Thus, emerging entrepreneurs should parse fact from fantasy by watching the show with an experienced business pro. It is also an inspirational alter call to entrepreneurship.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2010

My House Is Not For Sale. However, in many cases, acquiring companies behave in a less rational manner than Mr. Citrix politely approached us, told us they had an interest in acquiring our company and then asked us, “How much?”. Our response was that there was no “price” as our company was not for sale.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

Thompson''s jaded take on the travel industry, I wondered if there was a travel company that bucked his stereotypes and properly balanced making bold destinations accessible while respecting the unspoiled resources and culture that made the locales interesting in the first place. but we don''t. How have you made it work?

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Eric Greenspan

APRIL 27, 2015

Three years ago my company collapsed. I was left with nothing and a ton of debt as I secured the company’s loans of over $500,000. After purchasing over 160 vehicles, most in former company’s fleet, I was car-less. Since she was not effected by the downfall of my company, she bought a car in her name for me.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

The firm said the API will help companies add Cogi's capture and note taking capabilities into existing enterprise apps. Cogi was founded by experienced entrepreneurs from Callwave, CrystalVoice, and Ideocore. Cogi said the it is accepting a "limited" number of licensees to the beta, and will launch to the public in the coming quarter.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

John Lusk, along with his Co-Author Kyle Harrison, leveraged their humble company''s newsletter into The MouseDriver Chronicles , a New York Times bestselling book. The company''s newsletter was initially created to share their entrepreneurial journey with their family and friends. A version of this article previously appeared on Inc.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. We provide analytics on the velocity of sales across their channels.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2016

Long before author Stephen King sold over 350 million books, he was a budding entrepreneur. 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. Activities Vs. Results.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2014

Just like starting a company as a sole founder, it is possible to excel without a partner, it''s just a lot harder. For instance, a team comprised solely of engineers is greatly handicapped, as is a team exclusively made up of sales and marketing executives. However, for most people, two (or more) heads are, in fact, better than one.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 9, 2019

As a Professor at UC Santa Barbara , I constantly battle Hollywood’s stereotype of the rapacious, maniacal businessperson, by teaching my students that Honesty is a competitive advantage. Michael Bloomberg, American Entrepreneur and Politician. When an entrepreneur selects a venture, the idea should be all consuming.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

For many entrepreneurs, college has little appeal. Academia's arbitrary, bureaucratic structure, combined with its predominant focus on theoretical issues, causes many entrepreneurs to depart college early. I generally encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to complete their formal education before joining or creating a startup.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. We were able to boot strap the company on only $800, and scaled it to millions in revenues without investment, because of the efficiency of our marketing. Here's the reason why. The second part, is our matching technology.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. And for many companies a good deal of their business is still closed over the phone–through their call centers.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

Obtaining funding is a key milestone, but equally important is helping fledgling companies build institutional mass once they leave the relatively safe confines of an accelerator. Savvy entrepreneurs - seek out programs which incorporate these post-graduation activities. Just like in the “old days,” sales still solve all problems.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 22, 2013

In their new book Startup Life , serial entrepreneur and venture investor Brad Feld, along with his wife Amy Batchelor, describe what has, and has not, worked for them during their 22-year relationship. In particular, I found the following thoughts to be impactful: "Many entrepreneurs are high functioning introverts." – Agreed.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

The reasons companies elect to sell exclusively offline differ, but they often center on managing channel conflict with their retail partners. In addition to the Z Supply brand, which offers comfortable fashion basics, the company has created Black Swan , Others Follow , Rag Poets and White Crow.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 22, 2013

In their new book Startup Life , serial entrepreneur and venture investor Brad Feld, along with his wife Amy Batchelor, describe what has, and has not, worked for them during their 22-year relationship. In particular, I found the following thoughts to be impactful: "Many entrepreneurs are high functioning introverts." – Agreed.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

” In that post I talked about how a few key people in any community can have an enormous impact on the fledgling success of the city or company. And in many communities that are new to building tech startups I’ve found that a lot of angel money is not very sophisticated at investing in startup companies. Here are mine: 1.

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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. As discussed in Hiring Entrepreneurs, the impact of each new hire during your startup’s early days is tremendous.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). Many people start companies arse backwards. This is one of the biggest source of future problems for the company. the link is here.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The driving force for our merchant partners, is incremental sales, and harnessing those product recommendation and mentions in peer-to-peer communications. Who is providing the funding and backing for the company? Jordan Glazier: We did a seed round in July of 2017, led by Mucker Capital, out of Santa Monica.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

We spoke with co-founder Brenton Sullivan about the company''s platform, and how it''s hoping to transform the athletic recruiting process. It''s much like a sales team might use software to find leads. We''re not the company which tells athletes to jump on our site, and we''ll spam you to schools and find you a place.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Santa Barbara-based SendMeHome (www.sendmehome.com) is looking to solve that problem, with a free service to print out labels which attach to your item, and where you can register items in case they are lost. What had you been doing before starting the company? I always wanted to start a company.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. We will also have some of the top companies present that each of the panelist has invested in.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall is garnering some excellent companies being submitted and most of which I wish could all be part of this amazing night. He has contributed to the success of dozens of companies, including the funding and strategic acquisitions of Movoxx, Tsavo and People Media. He is a recognized leader in the Voice 2.0

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

As SocialStay is a young company on the rise, I figured that slight twist on the Monk stunt would be a perfect disruption to an otherwise staid industry. The final point was essential, since our contract stated, “ you may not promote your company anywhere outside of your booth on the property.” Lessons Learned.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

Many people are too cautious in sales processes and as a result when they present their solutions they end up sounding milquetoast and undifferentiated from anybody else in the market. I recently wrote about the three rules of sales. Why Buy Anything ? Why Buy Me? Why Buy Now? I boil this process down to “ Why Buy Anything ?”

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

Excellent companies being submitted and most of which I wish could all be part of this amazing night. He is also an active investor with stakes in companies like Hipmunk, GroupMe, Facebook, Zynga (acquisition stock), and SV Angels. OrangicStartup’s is a company that helps Internet startups start. He received a B.S.

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2009

Earlier this month, Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue (www.ringrevenue.com) announced that it had raised a round of venture funding. We caught up with the firm's CEO, Jason Spievak, to learn more about the firm's technology, as well as to hear about the company's experienced team, which came out of Callwave. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Always looking to provide the very best for our community so that you may learn and grow as a startup or entrepreneur, Bill Gross is one of the best experts we could provide. Bill Gross founded Idealab in March 1996 and serves as the company’s Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. SuperDemo: Bill Gross.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

That’s why it’s important to revisit your company’s mission from time-to-time. In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. We try to hire deeply analytical associates to can help companies problem solve and who make us better investors.

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