Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Jason is another local Santa Barbara CEO and we had a great chat about Make It Work, Ring Revenue, Affiliate Marketing and life in SB. Through CJ’s website, Publishers/Affiliates bring hits to Advertisers’ websites by using Google Adwords, blogs, email, Twitter, Facebook and other means.

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socalTECH

MARCH 25, 2015

Santa Monica-based Surf Air says it might put a new waitlist into effect on April 1st--due to overpopularity of some of its routes--according to emails being sent to possible customers of the firm. READ MORE>>. surfair surf membership flight travel silicon valley airline airplane'

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socalTECH

JUNE 12, 2015

Los Angeles-based membership airline Surf Air says it now has more than 1,600 members, and has flown over 13,000 flights, two years after its debut--according to the company's sales emails. The company's service allow members to skip the long security lines and crowded public terminals, and also mostly uses smaller airport locations.

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

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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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 18, 2019

By December, 1969, there were only four nodes – UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, the University of California-Santa Barbara and the University of Utah. This enabled many aspects of the dark side to emerge (fraud, invasion of privacy, fake news, denial of service, etc.). We are currently still suffering from those shifts.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I even plan to use it in my upcoming UC Santa Barbara Entrepreneurial Selling class. In a perfect world, the coolest widget, the coolest service would automatically sell and people would love it…but this ain’t a perfect world. You even include your email address at the back of the book.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

Thus, during the recruiting process, we look for evidence of the applicant’s ability to: work autonomously, effectively communicate via chat and email and a willingness and ability to collaborate, despite being unable to walk down the hall and park themselves in a compatriot’s office.”. “We realize that remote work is not for everyone.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Brian Coryat, Founder and CEO of Local Market Launch and former Founder and CEO of ValueClick (NASDAQ: VCLK) recently winged his talk at UC Santa Barbara''s Distinguished Lecture Series. And I couldn''t figure it out, so I sent an email to webmaster@yahoo.com and I got an email back and. There''s no business category.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging.

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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. He grabbed all the user email addresses I had collected and started talking to potential customers to find out what they wanted to do.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 7, 2014

I had no idea how to get a table so I just called my Onstar service and asked them to do it. I look forward to meeting his wife soon and entertaining them on their next trip to Santa Barbara. A couple years ago, I got an email from the Huntley hotel in Santa Monica. Table of 6 at Mr. Chow at 8pm.”

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 7, 2014

I had no idea how to get a table so I just called my Onstar service and asked them to do it. I look forward to meeting his wife soon and entertaining them on their next trip to Santa Barbara. A couple years ago, I got an email from the Huntley hotel in Santa Monica. Table of 6 at Mr. Chow at 8pm.”

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Beverly Hills Santa Barbara Email Networking 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Santa Barbara-based SendMeHome (www.sendmehome.com) is looking to solve that problem, with a free service to print out labels which attach to your item, and where you can register items in case they are lost. I pursued the idea, and ended up with SendMeHome, and we've become the first free service.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

We all now visit UGC sites to learn about products & services before we use them. 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. A few years ago I planned an outing to Santa Barbara for my Dad’s 70th birthday.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 15, 2011

I just got off the phone with someone who wanted my help getting networked into the Santa Barbara business community. During our email exchange before our call, I had to ask him what he wanted to talk about. Little did I know when the call began, that it would end up being the worst networking call in which I have ever partaken.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

This is an important piece for Make It Work as it allows us to post all the emails, tweets, and FB posts we share with our followers and customers daily. Here’s a couple of tips for you from the CEO of a tech services company (that’s me): 1. are all soon to be found on our blog in one centralized place.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

This is an important piece for Make It Work as it allows us to post all the emails, tweets, and FB posts we share with our followers and customers daily. Here’s a couple of tips for you from the CEO of a tech services company (that’s me): 1. are all soon to be found on our blog in one centralized place.

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Technical Review Santa Barbara Blogging Yammer 100

Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

One day I get an email from Ms. Of course she asked me, I’m the CEO of a leading computer services company. I then sent an email to my CTO Jeremy Anticouni asking him if www.poogling.com was available. We hope to offer these services as we expand nationwide to all parents and all schools, nationwide.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 13, 2009

The seven minute piece went on to showcase many of our accomplishments as a company, including the awarding of Services Company of the Year in 2006 by the Tech Council of Southern California and our back to back wins of “Best of Computer Repair&# in Santa Barbara, voted on by readers of the Independent.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

This morning's interview with Daryl Bernstein , CEO and co-founder of Santa Barbara-based RightSignature (www.rightsignature.com), a firm which has created an online, software-as-a-service offering to collect legally binding signatures on documents. Explain to me how your service works? Daryl Bernstein: Yeah, we have.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I'm down here probably three or four days a week on average, and we're trying to be active, and pick off what we think are going to be the best deals here, from Santa Barbara down to San Diego. I do energy and materials investment, Internet investing, digital media investing, and financial services investing.

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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. For readers who haven't heard of Cogi, can you explain what your service does? For readers who haven't heard of Cogi, can you explain what your service does?

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I’ve recently had a chance to reconnect with Eric David Greenspan ( LinkedIn , Twitter ) He’s the CEO of Make It Work a high quality, personal, high touch technology service provider for homes and small businesses. A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. Sometimes I make a blog entry.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2013

Consistently working 14-to-16-hour days had something to do with it, along with a service-oriented mentality built upon a foundation of integrity. You can watch Sarah tell her compelling story in the following 15-minute excerpt from her recent UC Santa Barbara talk. A Foundation Of Honorable Service. Share and Enjoy.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. Many of these other services pay under $20 an hour, and ours is an average of $30 to $35 an hour. Why would tutors use your service rather than just find clients themselves? The second part, is our matching technology.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Santa Monica startup airline Surf Air has been spreading its wings in recent months and spreading the word about its initiatives at Silicon Beach events such as Social Media Week LA and Techweek LA. We were maniacal about making sure that when we launched the service would be something we’d be proud of.”. Regional Roots.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

As an Instructor of entrepreneurship at UC Santa Barbara, I welcomed the chance to read Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson’s Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer And Venture Capitalist. Don’t Email Carpet Bomb VCs. What Not To Do. No Often Means No. Don’t Ask For A Referral If You Get A No. Don’t Be A Solo Founder.

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

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

Last week, Los Angeles-based StarGreetz (www.stargreetz.com) debuted its celebrity-powered, personalized message service to the public, allowing both brands and artists to send highly personalized messages to their fans. For our readers who haven't yet heard of your company, what's the idea behind StarGreetz?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

You have this perception that they’re billing you for the lunch meeting they invited you to and the friendly banter emails flying back and forth. The agreement they sent said, “we may offer your services to our customers.&# This went unnoticed by the CEO and the lawyer. I saw the same bad behavior in consulting.

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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. Travel, and the trust it requires, is too personal to rely solely on email and social media. The next time you want to get away, consider an adventure somewhere with no Internet or cell service.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. Dinesh Ravishanker , CEO & Co-Founder at CallFire.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. Dinesh Ravishanker , CEO & Co-Founder at CallFire.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. ” They prefer to sit in front of a computer doing spreadsheets or coding or writing emails and working on marketing materials than they do investing time in human relationships. They respond to email. Empowerment.

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