socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Elizabeth Cholawsky , the new CEO of Santa Barbara-based HG Data (www.hgdata.com), which develops software which helps marketers and salespeople understand the "technology stack" of their potential customers and prospects. So, I cam on board. What were you doing before this?

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MAY 6, 2014

Santa Barbara-based HG Data , a developer of B2B sales and marketing tools, said today that it ahs raised $2M in an additional Series A funding. HG Data offers up business intelligence software used to help in sales and marketing programs, specifically for technology clients. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 22, 2020

Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet , a developer of brand protection software, has raised $5.1M According to TrackStreet, it is developing brand protection technology, which uses artificial intelligence and automation to help brands monitor brand, MAP (minimum advertised price), and resale pricing violations. in a funding round.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet , a developer of software to help manufacturers monitor their channel and e-commerce sites--and in particular, minimum-advertising-price (MAP) policies--has raised $2M in seed funding, the company said Wednesday. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Technology solutions are now used by authoritarians to monitor and control populations, to stymie an individual company’s economic prospects or to foment chaos through demagoguery. Hot, Flat & Crowded.”

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2014

Santa Barbara-based Invoca , the developer of cloud-based, call marketing and click-to-call technology which is backed by Accel Partners, Upfront Ventures and Rincon Venture Partners, said it has hit 100 employees, and also expanded its executive team. Invoca is led by Jason Spievak. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Santa Barbara-based radio frequency filter technology developer Resonant Inc. said late Monday that it has added a sales and marketing veteran to its advisory board.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2009

Santa Barbara-based D2 Technologies , a developer of IP communications software for the embedded market, said this morning that it has promoted two of its executives and created two new business units. Tags: technologies voip embedded software executive. READ MORE>>.

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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. RingRevenue said Progrexion has seen an increase of 630% in sales due to its pay-per-call campaigns since launch in July of 2010.

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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

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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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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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , the provider of pay-per-call, performance marketing technology run by Jason Spievak, said this morning that it has closed on $4M more in a new round of funding. Tags: capital venture phone telephone marketing affiliate call ringrevenue. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 26, 2009

" Kurt has a great background in sales and marketing. He is well known in the Southern California Technology scene for his work producing the Digital Family event series, along with the MOTM (Meeting of the Minds) series. We have regular monthly meetings in Westlake Village, Hollywood, Santa Barbara, & Newport Beach.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. NastyGal is just one of a number of fashion-meets-technology startups to emerge in Los Angeles, which. has long been home to both technology and fashion--but, based on its trajectory, looks to be one of the fastest growing. Rubicon Project.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Both the video and Seth’s post are excellent primers regarding how to deal with guerilla marketing gone wrong. As John Greathouse noted in his blog entry, Putting “Trade” Back Into Tradeshows , several years ago, I pulled off a guerilla marketing coup at a large tradeshow by hiring actors to portray monks. By: Seth Epstein.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

Zingle, a Carlsbad, CA-based tech startup targeting the service industry and consumer-facing businesses with its messaging app technology, has raised $3 million in venture capital, according to a regulatory filing earlier this month. or forward the query to an appropriate hotel staffer to respond. Hate2Wait #H8toW8 pic.twitter.com/KcMuKvoqRZ.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Search Marketing. Lots of marketers are feeling a lot of pain in their search marketing, and we thought there was a great opportunity here to solve that problem. Lots of marketers are feeling a lot of pain in their search marketing, and we thought there was a great opportunity here to solve that problem.

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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? Yet, the ways that enterprises and businesses are monetizing that user interaction is sort of archaic, compared to the evolution of the technology. The majority of our time is now spent online.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. We're using technology to scale, and use it to be super-efficient, but we're also never going to be entirely hands-off. The second part, is our matching technology. Customer acquisition costs can be as much as $200 an hour.

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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

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 Innovations Are More Than Technological Features. "Our

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

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. I read Enchantment anticipating that it might augment my Entrepernurial Selling class, which focuses on influence and persuasion, rather than sales tactics. Fan, Not A Fan Boy. Positive ROI.

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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.

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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. We caught up with the firm's CEO, Jason Spievak, to learn more about the firm's technology, as well as to hear about the company's experienced team, which came out of Callwave.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

What's the technology behind this? We've been innovating over the last fifteen months, and have to patents pending on the technology right now. Whether those meetings are with brands, with celebrities, or entertainment managers, by being in one of those three markets you have a presence that is hard to get in many other cities.

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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.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mike has over 18 years of business development, marketing and management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and of the Art Center College of Design. in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

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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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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. There are always flavors-of-the-month strategies or markets that are in favor in the tech startup world. Conviction.

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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. Consider it a sales & marketing expense for them. Many people start companies arse backwards.

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