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

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 15, 2011

I just got off the phone with someone who wanted my help getting networked into the Santa Barbara business community. At the end of the call, the consultant still went for the close, asking me if there were any companies whom I thought might be able to use his services. free weekly Infochachkie articles! Self-aware? –

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Networking Blogging Santa Barbara Startup 231

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Most men in the 1940's and 50's did not know how to use a keyboard and thus could not write code. One of these bright lights is Santa Barbara-based HG Data - developers of the world's largest competitive-intelligence database. <Note: The Power of a Diverse Workforce. The reality is that it is embedded in US's culture.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

As an Instructor of entrepreneurship at UC Santa Barbara, I welcomed the chance to read Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson’s Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer And Venture Capitalist. Brad and Jason have been exposing venture capitalists’ secrets since 2005, when they began writing a blog series on Term Sheets at AskTheVC.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Writing Guide 205

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? Our platform is on all devices and all those communications channels, and is able to detect when consumers are referencing products, services, brand, and merchants in their communications among themselves. What does that look like?

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San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. So we're focused on technology, and financial services. We'll even write a half a million check.

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

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

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. I do energy and materials investment, Internet investing, digital media investing, and financial services investing.

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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

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. 9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams.

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2013

Consistently working 14-to-16-hour days had something to do with it, along with a service-oriented mentality built upon a foundation of integrity. You can watch Sarah tell her compelling story in the following 15-minute excerpt from her recent UC Santa Barbara talk. A Foundation Of Honorable Service.

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Networking Startup Santa Barbara RSS 214

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. Many of these other services pay under $20 an hour, and ours is an average of $30 to $35 an hour. Why would tutors use your service rather than just find clients themselves? The second part, is our matching technology.

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Startup Venture Capital Beverly Hills Acquisition 113

InfoChachkie

JUNE 20, 2011

As described in Beware The Consultant , startups should strive to conserve their most precious assets, time and money, by avoiding paying fees to third-party service providers, such as recruiters. The internship provides a window into each student’s ability to transition from college into the adult world of deadlines and accountability.

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Startup Software Review Technical Review Class 244

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

We've basically taken advantage of all the new technology out there--especially, the web-based service model. It's started with managing courses and grades, on to a whole array of other services. Zareh Baghdasarian: Right now, there's a multitude of services. Can you talk about some concrete examples of what you're managing?

Education 124

Education Startup Course Tool 124

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. ” They prefer to sit in front of a computer doing spreadsheets or coding or writing emails and working on marketing materials than they do investing time in human relationships. I wanted to just write. I like writing.

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Startup Coach Course Invest 150

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. The former is a developer platform, while the latter was a consumer subscription service. billion).

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67