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. All you need is an email address. You give us your email address, and register each of your items.

Santa Barbara 100

Santa Barbara Startup Writing Ideas 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. Who is providing the funding and backing for the company? The majority of our time is now spent online.

San Diego 159

San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 15, 2011

I just got off the phone with someone who wanted my help getting networked into the Santa Barbara business community. During our email exchange before our call, I had to ask him what he wanted to talk about. It turned out that he was looking for companies he could work with as a consultant. Self-aware? –

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InfoChachkie

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. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I think we've done some of the really exciting companies in LA, including most recently Clicker, Machinima, BUZZmedia, and SVnetwork. I'm down here probably three or four days a week on average, and we're trying to be active, and pick off what we think are going to be the best deals here, from Santa Barbara down to San Diego.

Redpoint 154

Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

I’m a pretty natural public speaker so I can write my presentation the day before and do just fine. I was on vacation in Santa Barbara two years ago with my wife and I was reflecting on what I had learned in my first year in LA and in VC. I thought through the steps: Get a class of interesting companies.

Slides 374

Slides Email Entrepreneur Startup 374

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. Many people start companies arse backwards. Our lives are intertwined.

Startup 318

Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

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 thing, is tools.

Startup 113

Startup Venture Capital Beverly Hills Acquisition 113

InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2013

You can watch Sarah tell her compelling story in the following 15-minute excerpt from her recent UC Santa Barbara talk. It was that love of serving people that led me on my long journey of starting a company.". I took that lesson of integrity and brought it with me when I started my company. Million Dollar Inaugural Year.

Networking 214

Networking Startup Santa Barbara RSS 214

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

This latest round valued the company in excess of a billion dollars, entering them into the overly-hyped Unicorn Club. In contrast, low-volume, high-conviction investors like Rincon only invests in a handful new companies each year, making it much more costly (in dollars and effort expended) to invest in a loser. billion).

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

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.

Startup 150

Startup Coach Course Invest 150

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

Hollywood 67

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