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Reflections on 2018: Mike Panesis, Center for Entrepreneurship at CLU

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Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. In May, the Center co-hosted the first New Venture Ventura County, a celebration of student entrepreneurs from grade school to grad school.

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Steve Poizner Boots Up New Southern California Tech Nonprofit

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The new group says it will develop initiatives that encourage tech entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and top talent to locate to and stay in Southern California, complementing and extending the success of Silicon Valley and the Bay Area. Marc Stern of The TCW Group, and Scott Wolfe of Latham and Watkins in San Diego.

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American Entrepreneurs – Be Happy You Are Not In Spain

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After studying at UC Santa Barbara''s entrepreneurial program , he returned to Spain, excited to start a venture and make a positive impact on his homeland. Fredi''s email is worth reading, as it reinforces how lucky American entrepreneurs truly are. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Fredi''s Plea.

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Entrepreneur Hack: This Remote Team Of 12 Generated $100M

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Given TimeHop’s failed experiment, I was especially intrigued when I learned that a team of a dozen remote entrepreneurs hack the typical corporate structure and creates a company that generated nearly $100 million in revenue. Dan Engel, Co-Founder and former CEO of FastSpring, is a highly successful serial entrepreneur.

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An Enchanting Conversation With Guy Kawasaki

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I even plan to use it in my upcoming UC Santa Barbara Entrepreneurial Selling class. I began our discussion by asking Guy, “Why should entrepreneurs read your latest book, Enchantment?”. The reason why an entrepreneur should be interested in this book is because entrepreneurs have to overcome resistance.

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Ten Of The Top Tech Companies For Employees In LA

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Frank Addante, who founded Rubicon, is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded L90, which was acquired. range of software products, and which has offices in Calabasas and Santa Barbara. RightScale is one of a number of enterprise software and open source companies to emerge in the area, and is based in Santa Barbara.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

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And they need it because nobody senior at Stripe, Discord, Coinbase or for that matter Facebook, Google or Snap is leaving without a ton of incentives to do so. And the truth is that several entrepreneurs prefer it this way. The most connected and high-potential founders start with wads of cash. just to name a few!