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. Dear Friends, We have no income and no venture capital funding. Saying, ''Hey, we want to pay you to write a book.’ everybody opted in.".

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Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Large companies write business plans, why of course, that’s the organizing document for a startup. Yet we took this document, the business plan, because we knew nothing else and said, ‘Go write one of these.’. That was the implicit statement. Ten year later… (we know that) startups are not smaller versions of large companies.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

With top-ranked accelerators Lauchpad LA closing its doors and Y Combinator rebranding itself as a seed fund, it seems fair to ask the question, “Are Accelerators Dead?”. My Forbes co-contributor Geri Stengel concurs that something is happening in the Volunteer State, writing last month about that state’s emerging women entrepreneurs.

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Startup Class LAMP Santa Barbara 100

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. 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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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. In 2000, we set up our second fund--worth almost $400M--and for that vintage year, that fund is one of the top tier performing funds in the entire country.

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

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. We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. People can come in and have a coffee.

Redpoint 154

Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Many people start companies arse backwards.

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Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

Eric Greenspan

APRIL 25, 2015

In 1987 I arrived in Santa Barbara with a bike, $3,000 and a chip on my shoulder, tons of passion and something to prove. My income is soaring again but I couldn’t compete with the well funded legal teams of the six banks that had me by the balls. She’s laying next to me as I write this. I’m happy.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. While at UC Santa Barbara, I started a café which served over 1100 dorm residents. You are writing about the essentials of business. Tell me a bit about your background. That's great.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

If I write back, and tell them to stay at the Marriott in Del Mar, we would detect the Marriott Del Mar in your message, whether that's on Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, in a text message, in an email, or whatever, and convert that into a link to one of our merchants who are part of the Wildfire network. What does that look like?

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San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. With HeyTutor, we track those lessons, let you write notes down about your clients, we create a tutor profile for you and a hub. We're taking these new funds, and putting them directly into sales and marketing and development.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. Why aren’t there a half-dozen well-funded startups running up your tailpipe? What are your thoughts regarding Santa Barbara’s entrepreneurial ecosystem and what special accommodations, if any, have you made to keep RingRevenue in Paradise?

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. We like to hire people and fund people who are deeply ethical and we try to be long-term in our investment thinking.

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Startup Coach Course Invest 150

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

For a high-volume seed fund that adds many portfolio companies every year (such as our friends at 500 Startups who invest in over 100 distinct companies annually), the cost of a bad affirmative decision (a false positive) is quite low, since it accounts for a relatively small portion of their total fund. Unicornless. billion).

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Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

If you've taken a course, and need an application to do chemistry or math analysis, there's a store where you can write, share, sell, or buy those applications. How is the company funded? The company is currently in Santa Barbara, and we're possibly going to move it into the greater Los Angeles area.

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Education Startup Course Tool 124