Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 We can’t wait for customers to use the product for 12–18 months and do customer interviews or look at purchase cohorts. dot-com bonanza.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , a developer of software for managing cloud computing infrastructure, said Wednesday that it has rolled out its first commercial offering, focused on enterprise customers.

Cloud Computing 124

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I frequently work on networking through the social web and building new relationships that will foster knowledge gathering or business growth. A day might include a discussion with a finance partner, an investor, a customer or a fusion partner. We need to spend some time discussing what you do with the social web. Great posts.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Commission Junction , the affiliate marketing arm of ValueClick, said Wednesday that online discount retailer Overstock.com has signed on as a customer of the firm. Commission Junction will manage Overstock.com's affiliate marketing programs, which are used to encourage sales on e-commerce web sites.

Santa Barbara 100

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socalTECH

MAY 29, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Citrix Online is looking to tap the creativity of Internet users for its next TV commercial, saying last night that it is inviting people to create their next TV commercial as part of a promotion.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2009

Santa Barbara-baesd RightScale , a developer of cloud computing management software, and SpringSource, a provider of web application performance and monitoring software, said this morning that SpringSource's software is now available through RightScale.

Cloud Computing 100

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Citrix Online is expanding into the audio conferencing business, the firm said, and has launched a new service called HiDef Conferencing , focused on allowing customers to manage audio conferences for up to 500 participants.

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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. Customer development, in hindsight… was the first of… an emerging stack of entrepreneurial management tools.”. Preaching What You Live.

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Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

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. They did it entirely through social networking. No wonder they just raised $1mm.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

venture funding and business deals, technology develops, and more from Santa Barbara. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network. socalTECH.com offers up continuous coverage of Southern California's growing high. to San Diego.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

The funding, provided by Santa Barbara, CA-based Rincon Venture Partners and Venice, CA-based CrossCut Ventures, represents the first institutional investment for Zingle. The device would print each order for the business and respond to the customer by texting a confirmation and order number.

Technology 40

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Eucalyptus’ underlying technology was developed at UC Santa Barbara. Although Eucalyptus is still a relatively small company from a personnel standpoint, it already counts twenty one of the Fortune 100 as it customers. The most typical use case is a scalable web service. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

Cloud Computing 212

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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. Obsess About Customers, Not Colleagues Or Competitors. “We We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts.

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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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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara. A good example of that is the Apache web server, where no one pays for support--they just download it and use it. There's really big demand.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Cogi (www.cogi.com) recently launched a phone-based service which allows users to transcribe conference calls and meetings. And, we have our own custom signal processing technology that increases the efficiency of all those existing systems that I've just described. How's the company funded and backed?

Santa Barbara 100

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

We are huge proponents of the Internet, so the last thing we wanted to do was scare them and stop their kids from benefiting from using the Web. 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.

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2009

Earlier this month, Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue (www.ringrevenue.com) announced that it had raised a round of venture funding. The way it works today, is a web site might have an affiliate link, people looking for a mortgage or refi will input their info, and hit submit. Explain your technology?

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Likeabilitee (www.likeabilitee.com) has come up with a new, highly visual service which makes it very easy for you to analyze and understand how people are engaging with your social media posts on Facebook. We then actually went to the leader, Amazon, and we're in the web services group.

Social Media 203

Social Media Startup Tool LAMP 203

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

It literally lets them talk to their customers in a never-before way, on a one-on-one basis. Based on those three inspirations, I wanted to build a company that allows brands and celebrities to speak to their customer in a unique manner. For our readers who haven't yet heard of your company, what's the idea behind StarGreetz?

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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? Over the years, as our reputation grew, we got more repeat business and corresponding word of mouth (then) everything changed, especially with the web. .

Entrepreneur 187

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Resource 187

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. The difference is that VoiceXML does not leverage customers' knowledge of web development.

Venture Capital 100

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Ice Energy (www.ice-energy.com) has quietly been working away at developing energy storage systems to help smooth out the demand for energy on the nation's power grid. Our customer is not the building owner or tenant, it's the utility. How is it that utilities are your main customer?

Southern California 100

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. They are dedicated to providing high-availability systems, beautiful user interfaces, furious developer support and unparalleled customer care. Custom ad deals and partnerships.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. They are dedicated to providing high-availability systems, beautiful user interfaces, furious developer support and unparalleled customer care. Custom ad deals and partnerships.

Tech Coast Angels 96

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

We've basically taken advantage of all the new technology out there--especially, the web-based service model. Anything beyond basic features, the customer will pay for it, depending on the use. The company is currently in Santa Barbara, and we're possibly going to move it into the greater Los Angeles area.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

But as with consulting, PR, web design and even VC – it’s not just the firm it’s also the individual. 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. I worked with Sam Angus at Fenwick & West.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. CallFire provides Voice and SMS Solutions to over 40,000 customers including political groups, non-profits, insurance agents, small business owners, and marketers.

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