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AUGUST 21, 2017

A new bill is expected to be introduced this week by local Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara), to target incidents of sexual harassment in the venture capital industry. Hanna-Beth Jackson is looking to use Senate Bill 224 to amend the Unrah Act, to clarify that the law applies to women entrepreneurs. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 1, 2017

According to the LACI, the new effort is being funded with a $5M grant from the California Energy Commission, and will support new technologies and entrepreneurs in Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, and Orange Counties.

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OCTOBER 28, 2013

The days of entrepreneurs having to move to New York, LA or Silicon Valley to ensure their startup''s success are long over. Santa Barbara Dreaming. When my wife and I arrived in Santa Barbara in the early 1990''s, we did not know a single person. If you are a competent entrepreneur you will make it work.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2014

As a Professor at UC Santa Barbara , I am blessed to work with enterprising and talented entrepreneurs in their early 20''s. The post Entrepreneurs: Feel Young, No Matter Your Age appeared first on John Greathouse.' These men have all become my mentors and I value their friendship among my most treasured possessions.

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MAY 26, 2011

In the 1930’s, when Max Fleischmann (of yeast fame) brought his yacht into the Santa Barbara harbor, the local laundry trucks did the sensible thing. As noted in Do Not Seek Your Fortune, Create It , successful entrepreneurs do not wait for someone to shout, “Go!” The second best time is right now.”. Send a note to your boss.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

Want to be an entrepreneur? Instead, grab your surfboard and head to UC Santa Barbara. In addition, Entrepreneur Magazine recently included UCSB in its Top 50 Schools For VC Backed Entrepreneurs at number 37. UC Santa Barbara has avoided this mistake by placing its Program within the Engineering department.

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JANUARY 16, 2018

I have been watching ProductPlan for several years, as the founders are both friends and pillars of the Santa Barbara Startup Community. Greathouse: Great products and companies that came out (of) Santa Barbara. We build product roadmap software – it’s a SaaS company based here in Santa Barbara, California.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

This morning's interview is with Kevin O'Connor , a longtime investor and serial entrepreneur, who is now running venture capital investment firm ScOp Venture Capital. Kevin sold his last company, Santa Barbara-based Graphiq, in July of 2017 to Amazon, but has a long history of successful companies, including founding DoubleClick.

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JANUARY 10, 2014

A new, Santa Barbara-based startup, Schoolofbookkeeping.com , launched this week, offering up online courses for bookkeepers, accountants, business owners, and accounting students. The startup''s founders include Eric David Greenspan, a serial entrepreneur who previously founded such companies as MakeItWork.

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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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OCTOBER 27, 2012

Friday, November 2, 2012 -- Startup Weekend Santa Babara. Startup Weekend Santa Barbara is a 54 hour event where entrepreneurs, designers, developers come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch startups. Santa Barbara's second Startup Weekend will be held at Citrix Online.

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JANUARY 18, 2012

As part of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, serial entrepreneur and noted venture capitalist Mark Suster recently shared his advice with a large crowd of emerging entrepreneurs. In the last six weeks, I have been pitched by five entrepreneurs under 20. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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JANUARY 29, 2019

Los Angeles-based HeyTutor , an online marketplace for finding tutors, has raised $1M in its Series A funding, the company announced on Tuesday, from Santa Barbara-based ScOp Venture Capital, the venture investment firm led by serial entrepreneur and investor Kevin O'Connor.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

Here, we feature the contribution of John Greathouse , an investor with Rincon Venture Partners and Professor Of Practice at UC Santa Barbara, where he teaches courses on New Venture Creation and Entrepreneurial Sales. What was the big news for your company this year? READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

You can hear Don tell his story in the following excerpt from his recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. Don began by explaining that his impoverished childhood drove him to a life as an entrepreneur. ". I had never thought about being an entrepreneur. I grew up ridiculously poor. Growing up. Magazine or Forbes Magazines.

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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. Dan Engel, Co-Founder and former CEO of FastSpring, is a highly successful serial entrepreneur. FastSpring.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

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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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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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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JANUARY 13, 2014

Tracy DiNunzio, Founder and CEO of Tradesy , recently shared her insights as part of UC Santa Barbara''s Distinguished Lecture Series. It''s grueling and difficult for every single entrepreneur, no matter what their circumstances. The post Told She Would Never Walk, This Entrepreneur Danced appeared first on John Greathouse.'

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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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JANUARY 12, 2015

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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JANUARY 10, 2014

A new, Santa Barbara-based startup, Schoolofbookkeeping.com , launched this week, offering up online courses for bookkeepers, accountants, business owners, and accounting students. The startup''s founders include Eric David Greenspan, a serial entrepreneur who previously founded such companies as MakeItWork, along with Seth David.

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JULY 21, 2016

Santa Barbara-based WeDo , a new startup developing social, to-do list apps, has raised $1M in a funding from angel investors, the company said this morning. Mobrem is a serial entrepreneur, who was the founder of Lettuce, which he sold to Intuit in 2014; Shulem is a 21-year old Mac software developer. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 18, 2013

A new, Santa Monica-based startup has created a new iTunes application, Draftpedia , aimed at providing a comprehensive source for NBA and NFL Draft history, player stats, and team rosters. The app--which is free--is the brainchild of David Rabie and Joe Sarafian, two Santa Monica entrepreneurs who were born and raised in Los Angeles.

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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. I have seen the effects of this distortion first hand.

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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. "By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day." " Robert Frost, American Poet. Monkey See.

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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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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. Tags: demo conference investedin phonehalo xpenser tastr startup entrepreneur.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Daryl Bernstein , RightSignature (Santa Barbara, software). James Borow and Clark Landry (shared position), SHIFT (Los Angeles, Santa Monica, advertising). Holden Steinberg , Pagewoo (Santa Monica, advertising). Thorsten von Eicken , Rightscale (Santa Barbara, cloud computing).

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JUNE 23, 2017

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. Bill Maris recently opened up Section 32 as a new, $150M investment fund in San Diego.

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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. We hosted an annual user conference in Santa Barbara, attended by a couple hundred of the world’s top surgeons.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Santa Monica-based membership-based airline Surf Air is telling potential customers that it recently reached 1200 members for its service, which allows members to take all-you-can-fly trips between the Los Angeles, Bay Area, Santa Barbara, Las Vegas, San Diego, and other areas via its own fleet of turboprops.

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

Santa Barbara-based RightSignature , online, software-as-a-service for collecting electronic signatures, took "Best of Show" at VentureNet Wednesday, after a day of presentations by thirteen Southern California startups. Tags: rightsignature venturenet saas prize startup entrepreneur.

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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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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. Wow, we''ve heard about your newsletter, and it seems to be motivating and inspiring entrepreneurs around the country. From 35 To 500 Readers.

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APRIL 24, 2012

Kim Kovaks, Founder and CEO OptionEase , recently spoke to a class of emerging entrepreneurs at UC Santa Barbara. There are a lot of things that entrepreneurs need to do. You have to stay on focus because, as an entrepreneur, you are going to get ideas coming at you every second. Yes, you need to be dedicated.

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