InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Eucalyptus’ underlying technology was developed at UC Santa Barbara. Although Eucalyptus is still a relatively small company from a personnel standpoint, it already counts twenty one of the Fortune 100 as it customers. With generation three of Eucalyptus, we are adding high availability into the actual product.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Platform Resource 212

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

In Mark Suster’s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara , he advised his audience of entrepreneurial students to master two skills: selling and coding. Bill’s advice reflects Microsoft’s hardnosed culture, which encourages internal competition and a ruthless pursuit of the truth. I am not suggesting you spurn product excellence.

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Tips Startup IP Santa Barbara 275

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

I generally encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to complete their formal education before joining or creating a startup. But it's also about operations and customer relationships." Innovation is commonly associated with either the introduction of new products or new features added to existing products.

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Tips Startup Entrepreneur Santa Barbara 247

socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2014

Jeff Overall: It all started back in 2011, when I was going to the University of Santa Barbara. How did you go from those prototypes to a real product and manufacturing? So, I started reaching out to the stores that were carrying GoPros, and as you might expect, all of the big companies were hesitant about the product.

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Startup Van Nuys Patents Santa Barbara 196

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. You’re right.

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

In this post I advocate taking a harder stand on where your product or solution differentiates in the market – even if it means you lose some deals as a result. The first of question is about qualifying your potential customers aka leads. Assume competition and assume within the buying organization you have enemies.

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Sales SaaS Startup Venture Capital 150

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

In fact, for the past 27-years, he has specialized in bringing exotic travel destinations to those of us who are healthy and active but whose competitive sporting days are long behind us. Greathouse : Let''s start with a question that will be especially helpful for my UC Santa Barbara students. Ever fantasized about climbing Mt.

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Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Resource 187

socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Ice Energy (www.ice-energy.com) has quietly been working away at developing energy storage systems to help smooth out the demand for energy on the nation's power grid. We have a lot in common in terms of those air conditioners and even the technology, but our product is different in an important way.

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Southern California Technical Review Demand Outsource Development 100

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. Our approach is often additive to all parties, resulting in ongoing, productive relationships.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Santa Barbara, who sent us a couple of projects she has found, and we're already gotten one of our group going up to look at that technology, because our member has very relevant experience in this area, and has determined that the technology is valuable. We need to be able to determine a pathway to a revenue generating product.

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Networking Research Startup USC 215

InfoChachkie

APRIL 6, 2015

I am always on the lookout for inspiring entrepreneurs who have leveraged their passions into healthy livelihoods as they serve as instructive role models for my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students. To go into production, I needed to build hundreds of molds and invest in a cost effective quantity of wheels.

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Mentor Pacific Palisades Startup Class 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. The reality of most startups is about survival.

Startup 150

Startup Coach Course Invest 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. Like anything in life, if you want a fair deal on the deferred fee and warrant percentage you need to talk to a few lawyers to make it competitive. But make it competitive. We’ve had great experiences with Michael Pfau in Santa Barbara.

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Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318