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UCSB Tops Harvard & Wharton In Startup Wars

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Instead, grab your surfboard and head to UC Santa Barbara. Although UCSB has room to grow with regard to the total number of VC-backed startups it generates, the Santa Barbara region fares well when its relative size is taken into account. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Organic Academia.

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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

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Periodically we do portfolio reviews to evaluate whether we have enough diversified risk across the fund. We look at stage, geography and of course sector. One such theme was “water conservation” and we morphed it into a broader theme of agriculture technology or “ag tech” for short. 6SensorLabs.

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Do you Suffer from the Urgency Addiction? It’s More Common Than you Think

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So things that have to be done early get done early, but only at the last possible moment that the early task is due. I has been asked to do the keynote speech at a dinner that night but of course hadn’t written a speech in advance. Example: I was recently in China and had three public appearances.

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