InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

I have been watching ProductPlan for several years, as the founders are both friends and pillars of the Santa Barbara Startup Community. Greathouse: Great products and companies that came out (of) Santa Barbara. We build product roadmap software – it’s a SaaS company based here in Santa Barbara, California.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In my new role as the first executive director for the Alliance for Southern California Innovation, I spent a lot of time outside of my home turf of Pasadena -- visiting innovation nodes such as San Diego, Irvine, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Venice, Santa Monica, and others.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Of course I thank the whole team but hard not to call out Courtney specifically. I’m thankful for the team at DataSift who have put in more international flights than I think even John Kerry has and has resulting in tremendous growth in revenue, team members and customer success.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

The Lean Startup approach dictates that successful customer development is an iterative process. Eric (Ries) was a student in one of the very earliest customer development classes at Berkley. Large companies write business plans, why of course, that’s the organizing document for a startup. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

As part of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, serial entrepreneur and noted venture capitalist Mark Suster recently shared his advice with a large crowd of emerging entrepreneurs. Winning customers is sales. Go see customers yourself. But the second thing…is also not likely to succeed. Life is sales.

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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. We hosted an annual user conference in Santa Barbara, attended by a couple hundred of the world’s top surgeons.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

We did not ask them to accept our Santa Barbara, casual startup view of the world. He is a member of the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Faculty where he teaches several entrepreneurial courses. _. — If they were Hospital Administrators from the Midwest, we would don the full monty (i.e.,

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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. My courses are rigorous and demanding. I am likewise pleased that my courses have not been rated "easy," earning an overall 2.9 A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.

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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." Along with Amazon, Dell was also an early pioneer of web-based customer service. " [Tweet this quote].

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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. If your culture rewards those who seek the truth, your team will be prone to objectively identifying tactical course corrections. Be Simpleminded.

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Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

Oh, and did I mention that their users have mapped 35,000 courses in 127 countries? inLife signed up dozens of merchants in Santa Barbara for their activity site. One of the founders wrote a Python script that sent out custom emails to a list they had developed. Of course not. No wonder they just raised $1mm.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 10, 2011

In the course of my recent interview with Guy Kawasaki , author and former Apple Evangelist, Guy describes Steve Jobs as: “… the world’s greatest CEO, ever. He did more for Apple’s shareholders, customers and employees than any other CEO has ever done for their shareholders, customers and employees.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 7, 2013

Over the course of 2004 and 2005, we actually merged Be Free and Commission Junction together. . So it was about in the 2004 timeframe that I made my first trip to Santa Barbara. They also had a segment of customers that we hadn't been successful with - (I was there) to really learn. Commission Junction.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

If you look at what you go through, starting high school, and maybe even middle or grade school, you go through your educational life managing courses, relationships with your teachers, and relationships with your parents. It's started with managing courses and grades, on to a whole array of other services.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

But of course all of these things are intertwined. In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. Obviously you need to be mentally flexible enough to spot if your instincts were wrong and a change of course is necessary. Know what you believe is important. Team Building.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Of course she asked me, I’m the CEO of a leading computer services company. We are currently scheduling a District-wide event in Santa Barbara for all parents of students in elementary and middle schools. We believe we have a responsibility to our customers and our community. We’ve yet been turned down.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

Greathouse : Let''s start with a question that will be especially helpful for my UC Santa Barbara students. How has this reality impacted your customer acquisition strategies? Kutay: "Of course, it can be argued that authenticity is an unattainable goal in travel.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Oh, they didn’t cover that in your Stanford CS course? When you’re doing biz dev deals or customer deals you need to start with a list of the things that you think could go wrong or that you want to protect against. We’ve had great experiences with Michael Pfau in Santa Barbara. And Brad Feld.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

The first of question is about qualifying your potential customers aka leads. One thing I observed was that many customers wanted an “on premise” version of our software and were willing to pay extra money for it. We said to customers, “We only sell SaaS and we think that’s the right solution for you.

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