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Success, Santa Barbara Style: Patagonian Sexwax With A Side Order of UGGS

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Six outstanding entrepreneurs have created this sweet flavor of success in one of the most beautiful places on earth – Santa Barbara, California. Santa Barbara has become a high-tech startup mecca, rivaling cities many times its size. From Lynda.com ’s recent $1.5

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Invoca's Offices Taken Over By 20,000 Honey Bees

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In one of those strange moments to come out of the high tech world still in a pandemic, Santa Barbara-based Invoca--with its workers all temporarily working from home like the rest of the world apparently was taken over by 20,000 bees while people were away, according to the company.

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Interview with Elizabeth Cholawsky, HG Data

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For this morning's interview, we caught up with Elizabeth Cholawsky , the new CEO of Santa Barbara-based HG Data (www.hgdata.com), which develops software which helps marketers and salespeople understand the "technology stack" of their potential customers and prospects. Elizabeth Cholawsky: I never lost my ties to Santa Barbara.

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Thanks to socalTECH's Sponsors and Advertisers!

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Looking to reach Southern California's high tech executives and. socalTECH.com offers up continuous coverage of Southern California's growing high. tech economy, with interview with the movers and shakers in the industry, coverage of. venture funding and business deals, technology develops, and more from Santa Barbara.

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An Enchanting Conversation With Guy Kawasaki

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Of the 225 customer reviews currently posted on Amazon, over 90% are highly positive. I even plan to use it in my upcoming UC Santa Barbara Entrepreneurial Selling class. As Guy notes in the accompanying video interview, his primary goal with Enchantment is to reach a broader audience, beyond the high-tech, startup world.

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Five Startup Tips From Bill Gates

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In Mark Suster’s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara , he advised his audience of entrepreneurial students to master two skills: selling and coding. Microsoft was one of the first successful high-tech companies to not distribute its profits to shareholders. " [Tweet this quote]. Treasure it. Banana IP. "Intellectual

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Nine Startup Tips From Michael Dell

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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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