socalTECH
JULY 15, 2016
Sonos--which has dabbled in retail with its "acoustic gallery" along La Brea in Los Angeles-said the company used thousands of pounds of sheetrock and beveled glass to create its listening rooms, which are all furnished with unique furniture, custom lighting, and different design aesthetics. READ MORE>>.
SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 17, 2009
I have a few meetings with the team, perhaps about the website design, radio show structure, an event we are working on, a sponsorship (perhaps the uniforms for our youth basketball team). A day might include a discussion with a finance partner, an investor, a customer or a fusion partner. A negative customer acquisition cost!
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InfoChachkie
DECEMBER 15, 2015
Photo courtesy of Santa Barbara Independent’s recent Techtopia Issue. You must also place yourself in the shoes of other uniformed and indifferent stakeholders, including: customers, partners and suppliers. People care about salving their pain, not the origin, design and composition of the painkiller.
InfoChachkie
MARCH 9, 2019
As a Professor at UC Santa Barbara , I constantly battle Hollywood’s stereotype of the rapacious, maniacal businessperson, by teaching my students that Honesty is a competitive advantage. Challenge the status quo and improve and innovate upon it, even if customers currently accept substandard offerings.
InfoChachkie
OCTOBER 12, 2015
Despite men's inroads into software development, many women continued to make significant contributions in the field of software design until the early 1970's. For instance, Margaret Hamilton’s work for NASA during the 1960's resulted in Apollo’s on-board guidance software and served as the foundation for ultra-reliable software design.
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. My definition of a startup is, ‘a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.’
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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