socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2018

How, exactly, did Santa Barbara-based Sonos get to where it is today? In an in-depth look, Wired just posted a long article charting the path of Nick Millington, the Chief Product Officer at Sonos , and the evolution of the company's whole home sound systems.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 2, 2011

Entrepreneurs must be unreasonable in order to dismiss the status quo and create novel solutions. However, an irrational lack of reasonableness will sabotage an entrepreneur’s efforts. I gave this talk was given to perspective and current UC Santa Barbara students, hence my references to UCSB’s Technology Management Program (TMP).

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2012

UK-based Coull , a developer of technology which lets publishers and advertisers tag video products within videos, has just signed Under Armour, as the firm's acquisition of Santa Barbara-based online media agency RevUpNet starts to pay dividends.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 7, 2011

My entrepreneurial students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, often ask my advice regarding their career choices. Advice For Emerging Entrepreneurs. In a company’s early days, it is often the developers and product marketing team who must create the product. " Robert Frost, American Poet.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

Santa Barbara-based Impact Radius , which develops digital marketing and affiliate marketing software, has raised $30M in a funding round, according to the company. Petterson is a serial entrepreneur, having previously also co-founded Leadpoint, founded Savings.com, and served at ValueClick, and co-founding Commission Junction.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

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. The bottom line is that the TaxJar team is happy - and because we're happy, we're incredibly productive.”. “We

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2010

According to DEMO, Thousand Oaks-based Invested.In , Santa Barbara-based Phone Halo , San Diego-based Tastr , and Los Angeles-based Immitter will all be presenting at the technology launch conference. DEMO has traditionally been a major launch event for startups and new technology products.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2016

The reality television show Shark Tank makes for entertaining content but many of its underlying messages are potentially detrimental to tech entrepreneurs. Thus, emerging entrepreneurs should parse fact from fantasy by watching the show with an experienced business pro. It is also an inspirational alter call to entrepreneurship.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2015

Despite the fact that I teach entrepreneurship at UC Santa Barbara , I do not believe that entrepreneurs are created in classrooms. Instead of trying to teach students to be an entrepreneur, I expose my entrepreneurial students to tools that will help them solve real-world problems. Image: Pixabay. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. Putting their expensive educations to good use, they aptly named their novelty product a "MouseDriver". From 35 To 500 Readers. crawl(ing) up.".

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InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

In early December of 1818, Jose de la Guerra devised a brilliant plan to thwart the French pirate Hippolyte de Bouchard who was lurking off the coast of Santa Barbara, contemplating an attack. By centering our alliances around our products and not our company, each group was comprised of complimentary partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And there is so much money around being thrown at so many entrepreneurs that many firms don’t even care about board seats, governance rights or heaven forbid doing work with the company because that would eat into the VCs time needed to chase 5 more deals. And the truth is that several entrepreneurs prefer it this way.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Later today I’m presenting at the annual Rincon Ventures Summit in Santa Barbara. There is a mythology amongst some LPs (funds that invest in VCs) and some VCs that “entry price doesn’t matter – only investing in the absolute best entrepreneurs.” Startup Exits: A Primer from msuster. Often it does.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

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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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2012

Serial entrepreneur Seth Epstein recently gave a keynote address as part of the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series. During his inspirational talk, Seth shared six hands-on exercises that entrepreneurs can use to harness their fears. This article originally appeared on Forbes HERE.

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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. If you could share one startup lesson with a young entrepreneur, what would it be? So I ask prospective new entrepreneurs, ''What is it specifically that you can bring to the industry?'' How have you made it work?

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. Putting their expensive educations to good use, they aptly named their novelty product a "MouseDriver". From 35 To 500 Readers. crawl(ing) up.".

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Photo courtesy of Santa Barbara Independent’s recent Techtopia Issue. Serial entrepreneurs agree that it is best to communicate with investors on an eighth grade level. Select the real software product from this list. Open-architected, workforce-neutral, productivity assimilator. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Tracy DiNunzio, Founder and CEO of Tradesy , recently shared her insights regarding the best approach for entrepreneurs to address competition. Tracy''s frank, pragmatic and somewhat controversial comments were presented as part of UC Santa Barbara''s Distinguished Lecture Series. The only thing you have as an entrepreneur.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 28, 2014

In the past, a struggling entrepreneur''s options for paying the bills were limited. Part time jobs typically generated minimal income while requiring the entrepreneur be at a specific place at a specific time, thus restricting their ability to work on their venture. Entrepreneurs using TaskRabbit earn an average of $60 per odd job.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. I was very excited by how inclusion was such a priority in the space, Startup of the Year wanted to work with us to make sure the event reflected our community ,” said Denayja Reese, Partnerships and Production Manager of BlackTech Week.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. So while new product introductions are exciting, often there is a delay until we see meaningful benefit to everyday life.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

NastyGal -- which was just about unheard of a year ago -- has rocketed to a over $100M business, driven by women's clothing, shoes, and other products. 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.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The following guest post is from some of my former UC Santa Barbara students. Each week he brought in passionate and successful entrepreneurs to speak to his students and give advice about the different facets of creating a startup. Fall quarter of Sr.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

A Santa Barbara based company, Milo Sensors, is tackling this problem via a wearable that constantly alerts your smartphone of your blood alcohol level. We started Milo Sensors over two years ago through the UC Santa Barbara New Venture Competition. I love origin stories. What was the company’s genesis?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. Andrew Schydlowsky: I'm a serial entrepreneur.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2011

If the tech community believes that a certain area is the epicenter of a particular industry, motivated entrepreneurs will start their ventures in such locations, thus reinforcing the geography’s perceived advantageousness. all of which continue to thrive in Santa Barbara to this day. Thanks Mr. Big Firm VC.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

For many entrepreneurs, college has little appeal. Academia's arbitrary, bureaucratic structure, combined with its predominant focus on theoretical issues, causes many entrepreneurs to depart college early. Innovation is commonly associated with either the introduction of new products or new features added to existing products.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Eucalyptus’ underlying technology was developed at UC Santa Barbara. They have a number of mini-websites that they run for various products and campaigns and they cannot know which of those sites will need resources at any given point. With generation three of Eucalyptus, we are adding high availability into the actual product.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

I consistently remind my UC Santa Barbara startup students that for most people, money is not a sustaining motivator. For this reason, I encourage my young entrepreneurs to fully understand what they will "make" at their venture, beyond monetary riches. Teachers, like entrepreneurs, work in a heightened emotional state.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Steve is also a Stanford Professor and noted marketing entrepreneur. By conceptualizing, selling, gathering feedback and then developing a product, startups achieve success more quickly and economically. Article first published as Steve Blank Discusses Origin And Future Of Lean Startup Movement on Technorati. Preaching What You Live.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

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. We automatically add tracking and point those product references to e-commerce merchants.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 5, 2015

As a Professor of Practice in Entrepreneurship at UC Santa Barbara , students ask me dozens of times each quarter, “What do you think of my idea?” Without question, the book is geared to first-time entrepreneurs, as evidenced by the time taken to define basic terms (e.g., A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

By early 2010, I found my stylistic voice and identified my audience of emerging entrepreneurs and thus dropped my penname. I will also increase the amount of video content, including snippets from talks given by my UC Santa Barbara classroom guest speakers. I have lots of fun plans for my blog in the coming year.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

Although many are entertaining, most fail to provide entrepreneurs with a sufficient return on their time investment. If you are a leader at a startup and you are reading a business book, you are not closing customers, raising capital, improving your product, or spending time with your loved ones. Fan, Not A Fan Boy. Things I Liked.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

I read Les Miserables in French and I’ve seen the theater production over 20 times. Santa Barbara schools just approved a $700,000 purchase of iPads for its students. Ferocious entrepreneur. Schools in the U.S.A. require the teaching of a foreign language. I took four years of French. This, I applaud.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In my capacity as a Professor of Practice at UC Santa Barbara , I was asked by the Student Association if I would consider interviewing rapper, fashion designer and entrepreneur Tyler The Creator. A version of this article previously appeared Forbes.

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