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An Enchanting Conversation With Guy Kawasaki

InfoChachkie

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. Guy, how would your 2004 book, Art Of The Start , differ, if you were writing it today?

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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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Interview with Jordan Glazier, Wildfire Systems

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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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Interview with SendMeHome

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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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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

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. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2.

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Worst Networking Call Ever

InfoChachkie

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. If that were the case, I would not be writing this entry, as I realize young people are learning “on the job.”

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Take On Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson’s Venture Deals

InfoChachkie

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. Brad and Jason have been exposing venture capitalists’ secrets since 2005, when they began writing a blog series on Term Sheets at AskTheVC.