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The Resumator Gets $2.1M From Rincon

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Rincon Venture Partners , the Santa Barbara-based venture capital fund run by Jim Andelman , John Greathouse , and Brian Kelly , has led the investment in a developer of social recruiting software tools for companies, The Resumator. Rincon led a $700,000 Series A round in 2011 in The Resumator. READ MORE>>.

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Make It Work Expands Into Web Services

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Santa Barbara-based Make It Work , the in-home computer and electronics service and help firm headed by Eric David Greenspan, said this week that it has launched a new web and social media services arm. Tags: makeitwork services social media. READ MORE>>.

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Social Intelligence Wins Crime Bureau

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Santa Barbara-based Social Intelligence , a developer of software tools which use social media information to uncover compensation and insurance fraud, reported a win with the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB). Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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iStoryTime Gets $2M

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Santa Barbara-based zuuka Group , the firm behind the iStoryTime line of mobile children's books, said today that it has raised $2M in a Series A investment round. According to the company, the investment came from Corporate Finance Partners (CFP). Zukka Group's founders are Grahama Farrar and Woody Sears.

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RingRevenue Powers New Ad Firm

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Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , the pay-per-call technology firm headed by Jason Spievak, is powering a new direct reponse marketer, As Seen Anywhere , also based in Santa Barbara, the two firms said today. According to the firms, As Seen Anywhere will provide multi-channel, pay-for-performance advertising.

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An Enchanting Conversation With Guy Kawasaki

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I even plan to use it in my upcoming UC Santa Barbara Entrepreneurial Selling class. What is massively different from now and when I wrote the book is that social media didn’t exist back then. My recommendation is that it is cheaper than ever to start a company. Marketing is free or cheap because of social media.

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Fifty years of the internet

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By December, 1969, there were only four nodes – UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, the University of California-Santa Barbara and the University of Utah. Commercial policies gained influence, companies could charge for domain registration, and credit card encryption opened the door for e-commerce.

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