socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? Happy Holidays!

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Southern California SoCal Pasadena Startup 113

SoCal CTO

MAY 22, 2012

Of course, given the size of this list and having kids, I really can't attend a lot of these. So, you may also want to go look at: Los Angeles Startup Events Here are some of the events and meetups that I've spoken at, attended or at least interest me. So, if you happen to read this and want to meet me, just reach out directly.

Los Angeles 198

Los Angeles Southern California Angel Enterprise Forum 198

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The following guest post is from some of my former UC Santa Barbara students. Design together, the course that introduced the idea for brightblu, they were concurrently taking three other classes: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Art of the CEO. Fall quarter of Sr. Fall quarter of Sr. Along with taking Sr.

Class 231

Class Startup Santa Barbara RSS 231

socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2013

Lynda.com offers up online education courses on things like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Microsoft Excel, AutoCAD, and much more. Lynda.com is unique in that it started out as a bootstrapped business operated out of the personal website (Lynda.com) of co-founder Lynda Weinman, in the not-so-technology hotbed town of Ojai.

Funding 178

Funding Santa Barbara ReachLocal Southern California 178

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

On Thursday, the City of Ventura is formally launching a new incubator, the Ventura Ventures Technology Center (www.v2tc.com), targeted at high tech businesses. The incubator so far includes startups Lottay , Geodelic , and a number of other Internet and other technology firms. 3M went into DFJ Frontier's fund II, which is a $55M fund.

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Ventura Incubator Technology Startup 200

Xconomy

JUNE 12, 2019

At public research universities like U-M, introductory courses in STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) subjects are the required first steps in the process of earning a STEM degree. A University of Michigan professor and colleagues from 10 universities are hoping to change that.

Equity 85

Equity Class Education Course 85

Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

I didn’t take a single course on computer programming in school. I now make a living knowing WordPress, CSS, HTML and of course search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing. Santa Barbara schools just approved a $700,000 purchase of iPads for its students. I’ve learned much about French history as a result.

HTML 139

HTML Search Engine Optimization Santa Barbara Education 139

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

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. And of course many more of us are gluten intolerant or want to live gluten-reduced lives. Apeel Technologies.

Funding 362

Funding Technical Review Ideas Startup 362

Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

I didn’t take a single course on computer programming in school. I now make a living knowing WordPress, CSS, HTML and of course search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing. Santa Barbara schools just approved a $700,000 purchase of iPads for its students. I’ve learned much about French history as a result.

HTML 100

HTML Search Engine Optimization Santa Barbara Education 100

Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

I didn’t take a single course on computer programming in school. I now make a living knowing WordPress, CSS, HTML and of course search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing. Santa Barbara schools just approved a $700,000 purchase of iPads for its students. I’ve learned much about French history as a result.

HTML 100

HTML Search Engine Optimization Santa Barbara Education 100

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 3, 2012

Seth Epstein, Founder and CEO SocialStay , former Founder and CEO of FUEL (acquired by Razorfish) and Emmy Award winner for his work on the X-Games, recently spoke at UC Santa Barbara as part of the Technology Management Program’s Distinguished Lecture Series. is the resolution economical, practical, technologically feasible?

Ideas 266

Ideas Guide Startup Santa Barbara 266

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Our Director of Flow, Heather Burlesci will be attending these courses as she is looking to build up her skills in this area. I of course agreed to get involved. As a board member of the Technology Council of Southern California (now an official sponsor of the event), I first reached out to my fellow board members.

Social Network 196

Social Network Networking Social Media Yahoo 196

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

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. Members were also more comfortable aligning their brands with an emerging technology, as opposed to a fledgling company.

Entrepreneur 168

Entrepreneur Santa Barbara Startup Conference 168

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2010

This is question Tina Seelig, Executive Director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, asks her entrepreneurial classes. Santa Barbara Foundation. A number of years ago, I was honored to join the Santa Barbara Foundation’s Katherine Harvey Fellows. Five Dollars And Two Hours. To learn about Ms.

Santa Barbara 191

Santa Barbara Class Ideas Organization 191

socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2013

This was a situation where we had the opportunity to take on funding, at a point where we could utilize it to scale our technology platform, and to increase our global reach and expand our content, beyond what we'd do normally. Eric Robison: We're not going to spend it all right way, of course. There are many opportunities for us.

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Funding Calabasas Course Platform 164

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

And of course I know that some 25 year-olds are thinking that they’d rather stay in somewhere more hip, more alive at night & probably a bit cheaper. A few years ago I planned an outing to Santa Barbara for my Dad’s 70th birthday. All I was thinking was, “Hallelujah! My kids can yell at 8am!

Help 309

Help Santa Barbara Technical Review Orange County 309

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 overheard me talking about Steve Jobs in conjunction with the entrepreneurship class that I teach at UC Santa Barbara. Steve’s Startup Tips.

Tips 279

Tips Startup Santa Barbara Entrepreneur 279

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

I generally encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to complete their formal education before joining or creating a startup. Innovations Are More Than Technological Features. "Our "Our business is about technology, yes. " [Tweet this quote]. But it's also about operations and customer relationships."

Tips 247

Tips Startup Entrepreneur Santa Barbara 247

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. We've basically taken advantage of all the new technology out there--especially, the web-based service model.

Education 124

Education Startup Course Tool 124

InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Large companies write business plans, why of course, that’s the organizing document for a startup. You can get feedback almost instantaneously and the cost of iteration is as close to zero as technology will allow us to get. That was the implicit statement.

Startup 229

Startup Class Press Custom Development 229

Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Of course she asked me, I’m the CEO of a leading computer services company. We are not therapists, but we know technology so we did the best we could. We are currently scheduling a District-wide event in Santa Barbara for all parents of students in elementary and middle schools. We’ve yet been turned down.

Google 115

Google .Net Santa Barbara Email 115

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.

Tips 279

Tips Startup Framework Custom 279

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 1, 2011

A lot of these new laws are about technology. This will be my fun side project, but of course, it turned out to be hugely time consuming. " A number of my UC Santa Barbara students are interested in music, film and other forms of digital entertainment. I wanted to show that there is no ‘yours’…not completely."

Ideas 203

Ideas Santa Barbara Entertainment Conference 203

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 14, 2011

To this end, neither my wife nor I knew anyone when we moved to Santa Barbara in 1993. He is a member of the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Faculty where he teaches several entrepreneurial courses. _. The last thing I wanted to do was, “miss the starting gun.” John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

Guide 145

Guide Santa Barbara Entrepreneur Course 145

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 14, 2011

To this end, neither my wife nor I knew anyone when we moved to Santa Barbara in 1993. He is a member of the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Faculty where he teaches several entrepreneurial courses. _. — The last thing I wanted to do was, “miss the starting gun.” John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

Guide 145

Guide Santa Barbara Entrepreneur Course 145

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

But of course all of these things are intertwined. We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. Of course continued failure means it’s time for change.

Startup 150

Startup Coach Course Invest 150

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

I has been asked to do the keynote speech at a dinner that night but of course hadn’t written a speech in advance. I wrote out 3 pages of bullet point notes on paper and delivered a 20-minute speech to a crowd of entrepreneurs (which included the Minister of Technology for China). It didn’t come out of nowhere.

Slides 374

Slides Email Entrepreneur Startup 374

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

And of course Foundry Group is the original masters of this with perfectly organized ambassador trips to Boulder. Or the huge dividends that Santa Barbara got from building GoToMeeting that sold for a nice price to Citrix. A local tech winner really creates a generational technology opportunity in the way nothing else can.

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Press San Diego 378

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Pioneered nonlinear playback and search capabilities, commonly used in DVD technology. 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. _. —

IBM 124

IBM IBM Software Review Custom 124

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. Oh, they didn’t cover that in your Stanford CS course? Many people start companies arse backwards.

Startup 318

Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

When we went to raise funds we faced lots of competition as there are of course many other VC funds in the country. We have strong theses in key technology areas. But we do 50% of our deals in Southern California from San Diego to Santa Barbara and we think that’s part of what makes us special. We are hands on.

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Sales SaaS Startup Venture Capital 150