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Success, Santa Barbara Style: Patagonian Sexwax With A Side Order of UGGS

InfoChachkie

Six outstanding entrepreneurs have created this sweet flavor of success in one of the most beautiful places on earth – Santa Barbara, California. Santa Barbara has become a high-tech startup mecca, rivaling cities many times its size. However, a number of Santa Barbara’s “lifestyle businesses” are anything but small.

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LogicMonitor Releases Free Java Monitoring Tool

socalTECH

Santa Barbara-based LogicMonitor , which develops software for IT infrastructure monitoring, said yesterday that it has released a new, free tool to help debug and monitor Java software.

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SpaceX Set To Unveil New Launchpad At Vandenberg

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SpaceX says it is investing $30M in a new launch pad at the base, north of Santa Barbara, as a place to launch its upcoming Falcon Heavy rocket. Vandenberg is a common location for rocket launches from NASA and the U.S.

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Non-millennial Bootstrapping – These 50-Something Entrepreneurs Rejected VC $ And Nailed It

InfoChachkie

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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The Changing Venture Landscape

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But we’re certainly focused in an enormous market that’s relatively less competitive than the Bay Area and is producing big winners including Snap, Tinder, Riot Games, SpaceX, GoodRx, Ring, GOAT, Apeel Sciences (Santa Barbara), Scopely, ZipRecruiter, Parachute Home, Service Titan?—?just just to name a few!

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Los Angeles Tech Launched - Hot List

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

SoCal CTO

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. Any thoughts on my recent post Startup Metrics ? The Startup Metrics post is a good example of what I call “holocognics.”

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