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RingRevenue Ropes In Rex Direct

socalTECH

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , the pay-per-call services firm headed by Jason Spievak, has signed on a new customer today, Rex Direct Net. According to Rex Direct Net, it will offer pay-per-call services powered by RingRevenue's products. Financial details of the win were not nanounced. READ MORE>>.

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Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

All four companies were in Los Angeles (or adjacent … Santa Barbara) and our community has now matured and regularly produces billion dollar+ outcomes. also wins by making sure we don’t have too much concentration in technology innovation, which is surely a great thing for us all.

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Tracing the ARPANET Roots of the Internet’s Cybersecurity Crisis

Xconomy

Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. ] [ Editor’s note: This is part of a series examining the internet’s first 50 years and predicting the next half century. The internet nearly came with built-in caller ID.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

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. But throughout the transition I had my safety net. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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Do your kids Google Poo?

Eric Greenspan

We are not therapists, but we know technology so we did the best we could. We are currently scheduling a District-wide event in Santa Barbara for all parents of students in elementary and middle schools. Products like Net Nanny and SpectorPro can block or monitor your children’s access to the Internet.

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Take On Guy Kawasaki’s Enchantment

InfoChachkie

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. Obsolescence – By Guy’s own admission, his references to current technologies, such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn build in an implicit shelf-life. Fan, Not A Fan Boy. Positive ROI.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

socalTECH

The new fund is focused entirely on technology companies. A large amount of this new fund, somewhere between 20 and 30 percent, is focused on technology in the financial services sector. So we're focused on technology, and financial services. That was quite a prominent exit for us. I'd like to see the community working together.