socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2013

Santa Barbara-based AnsibleWorks announced today that it has raised $6M in a Series A round, to go towards the company''s open source, IT automation tools. Ansible said the funding will go towards product development, sales, and other initiatives. The funding was led by Menlo Ventures. The company''s CEo is Said Ziouani.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Santa Barbara-based Be Green Packaging , a designer of sustainable, compostable, and recyclable packaging for the consumer packaged goods market, has been acquired by private equity investor Riverside Company. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2016

Santa Barbara-based Advanced Scientific Concepts has sold off its ASCar Division, which develops LIDAR systems for the automotive industry, to Continental AG , the company said Monday. Financial terms of the sale were not announced. Advanced Scientific Concepts was founded in 1987. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2013

The Santa Barbara-based company--which is backed by Redpoint Ventures and e.ventures--said it has named Thomas Miller as its Executive Vice President of Sales, and Brian Laing as its Vice President of Products. Miller joins the company from Zscaler, where he had been Senior Vice President of North American Sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

With the enormous changes to our economies and financial markets?—?how how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued?

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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. We provide analytics on the velocity of sales across their channels.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

Many people are too cautious in sales processes and as a result when they present their solutions they end up sounding milquetoast and undifferentiated from anybody else in the market. I recently wrote about the three rules of sales. In sales we often call these USPs (I wrote about them here: Unique Selling Propositions ).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. The Valley has obsessed with a quick up-and-to-right momentum story because we were thought to live in “winner take most” markets.

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Eric Greenspan

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

As far as technology goes, sure, I’ll be using my knowledge and skills to develop a business around technology and the process of producing our product uses some rather savvy science, so its not as big of a stretch as it might appear. The Macaw Coffee factory in Santa Barbara, Honduras. operations and sales.

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2011

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , the pay-per-call technology provider, says today that it has been seeing gains in the financial services industry with its platform. The firm said companies like Progrexion Marketing--which markets the credit repair product Lexington Law--has been seeing success with pay-per-call using its products.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. In today’s market, so much focus is placed on transacting business online. 10) Rob, why does the world need RingRevenue? . “In

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , the developer of pay-per-call technology and performance marketing products, said today that it is seeing "record" mobile campaign growth. RingRevenue's technology can generate and track unique toll free and local phone numbers in order to track sales leads. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

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. Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS.

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socalTECH

APRIL 18, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , the cloud computing software developer headed by Marten Mickos , has raised $30M in a Series C round of funding, the firm announced this morning. The firm will use the new funds for product innovation, sales, and customer support. IVP's Steve Harrick joins the company's board.

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InfoChachkie

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. But our product wasn’t ready for primetime. Number one is sales. Life is sales. Business development is sales.

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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. At Computer Motion, we created two alliances, comprised of a dozen companies with an aggregate market capitalization in excess of $28B.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

So, if you're a marketer, how do you track and encourage those word-of-mouth recommendations? 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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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. 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. range of software products, and which has offices in Calabasas and Santa Barbara.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Datapop (www.datapop.com) announced a Series A funding for the startup, which is developing search advertising products which better tune ads to improve click throughs. Search Marketing. What our technology platform does, is determines what about a marketer's offers that will matter to the consumer.

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

First Data of Santa Barbara has offered to extend below market rates to current accredited businesses like yours – again, just like they did for your BBB. First Data of Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, CA 93108. I then called Rick Copelan of the Santa Barbara BBB and asked him why they do this.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

I ended up really relating to the nuance and intricacies of product supply and customer demand. As a UC Santa Barbara alum, do you have any advice for my UCSB students who desire to break into the fashion industry? What factors led you to consider augmenting your retail channel with direct, online sales?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. However, because of our marketing and how efficient we are, we're able to make it work. In most markets, and especially in markets like LA or New York, there are an endless number of leads. The second thing, is tools.

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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 7, 2011

My entrepreneurial students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, often ask my advice regarding their career choices. In a company’s early days, it is often the developers and product marketing team who must create the product. Later it is the salespeople who must generate revenue from the product.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2010

He told the homeowner that he represented someone who wanted to purchase the ranch at a substantial premium over its current fair market value. My House Is Not For Sale. Our response was that there was no “price” as our company was not for sale. Open up a “sales process” and solicit bids from multiple companies.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

I generally encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to complete their formal education before joining or creating a startup. In Michael's case, he promised his parents that he would return to school if the sales at his startup did not meet his expectations. "I "I had to give it a full go and see what happened.

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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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Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

The funding, provided by Santa Barbara, CA-based Rincon Venture Partners and Venice, CA-based CrossCut Ventures, represents the first institutional investment for Zingle. Blakely said he also intends to add sales and marketing resources to take advantage of increasing demand from businesses for Zingle’s messaging technology.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 24, 2016

Greathouse: You and Brent are currently third and fourth year Computer Science majors at UC Santa Barbara. For instance, in the High Tech Sales class, we discussed the necessity of tracking ad performance. For instance, in the High Tech Sales class, we discussed the necessity of tracking ad performance.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2016

As noted in What’s Real About Shark Tank , the show can give consumer product companies a significant marketing and revenue boost, as it did for one of my former students, Jeff Overall, Founder of PolarPro. A number of my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students initially model their investment pitches on the show's contrived format.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

It also allows celebrities to talk to their fans, and offer them the opportunity purchase innovative, digital, personalized products like e-cards and invitiations. If you're an IP holder, if you're Coldplay, you can generate revenue from our innovative digital products, while building your fan base. How did the company come about?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2008

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. After my degree, I traveled for a year, and stopped by Santa Barbara, where we are based. Good luck!

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

I review these tenets with my entrepreneurial students at UC Santa Barbara at the beginning of each quarter to reinforce many of the key topics we will cover in the following weeks. Sometimes we measure things and see that in the short term they actually hurt sales. Don’t Chase The Quick Buck. The Two Pizza Rule.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

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. I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years.

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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. Greathouse : Yes, it always seems to get harder to launch a startup when a market begins maturing. Kutay: "At first it was exclusively word of mouth in local markets. At that time in travel it was very relevant.

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2009

Earlier this month, Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue (www.ringrevenue.com) announced that it had raised a round of venture funding. What we did, instead, was enable affiliates, particularly on higher margin or more complex products like insurance, travel, or education--to call someone. Explain your technology?

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