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An Enchanting Conversation With Guy Kawasaki

InfoChachkie

Guy’s latest book, Enchantment , was released in March of 2011, to overwhelmingly upbeat reviews. Of the 225 customer reviews currently posted on Amazon, over 90% are highly positive. I enjoyed the book as well, as evidenced by the review I wrote at the time of its release, which you can read HERE. It wasn’t the Guy fan base.

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Better Business Bureau? For who?

Eric Greenspan

I’ve remained a skeptic about the BBB and as a result of an email I received a couple of weeks ago from them, I have raised the skepticism threat level. So here’s the email I received: Eric, My name is Chad Ratliffe emailing from the Better Business Bureau. First Data of Santa Barbara. Shocking, right?

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

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. <Note: I edited a few comments from Jeff's email, none of which related to our meeting in 2008.> billion).

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Happy Anniversary Make It Work – 8 Years Today!

Eric Greenspan

I finally broke down and bought a Twitter marketing application that automatically adds followers for you. We are also getting ready to re-launch blog.makeitwork.com which will provide a landing page for all things tech, both from our hundreds of daily appointments solving consumer electronic problems and our content from Tech News.

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Happy Anniversary Make It Work – 8 Years Today!

Eric Greenspan

I finally broke down and bought a Twitter marketing application that automatically adds followers for you. We are also getting ready to re-launch blog.makeitwork.com which will provide a landing page for all things tech, both from our hundreds of daily appointments solving consumer electronic problems and our content from Tech News.

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Making the Internet Smarter at Helping Us

Both Sides of the Table

So I’m drawn to UGC reviews. I started reading the comments of reviewers. Whenever I’m trying out new restaurants I always feel compelled to check Zagat & Yelp and then STILL email friends to ask their POV on my top 3-4 choices. But, oy, is it serious effort. So there it is – the St. Food is no different.

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Why Millennial Entrepreneurs Should Never Watch Shark Tank Alone

InfoChachkie

The reality television show Shark Tank makes for entertaining content but many of its underlying messages are potentially detrimental to tech entrepreneurs. A number of my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students initially model their investment pitches on the show's contrived format. According to David S.