article thumbnail

Sonos Hardware Plan Casts Doubts On The Smart Home

socalTECH

The new plan announced by Santa Barbara-based Sonos to essentially "brick" all of its legacy products , is casting doubt on the lifetime of "smart homes" , as loyal, early adopters of the company's products are faced with having to throw away their speakers and other hardware. READ MORE>>.

article thumbnail

Steve Blank Discusses The Origin And Future Of The Lean Startup Movement

InfoChachkie

He is credited with pioneering the Lean Startup Movement in 2005 via the publication of his bestselling, Four Steps To The Epiphany. By conceptualizing, selling, gathering feedback and then developing a product, startups achieve success more quickly and economically. Steve is also a Stanford Professor and noted marketing entrepreneur.

Startup 229
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Interview with Winston Damarillo, Morphlabs

socalTECH

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara.

article thumbnail

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. According to Doug, “ productivity fell dramatically whenever the surf was up.”.

article thumbnail

Interview with Kevin O'Connor, FindTheBest.com

socalTECH

billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 After DoubleClick, Kevin eventually settled down in Santa Barbara, which is where his newest startup-- FindTheBest.com (www.findthebest.com) is headquartered. Kevin O'Connor: We're an objective comparison engine for the more complex products and services.

Startup 210
article thumbnail

Why Taking Some Risks in the Sales Process Can Improve Results

Both Sides of the Table

In this post I advocate taking a harder stand on where your product or solution differentiates in the market – even if it means you lose some deals as a result. There was a meme that started going around LPs around 2005 that “I’m not sure LA is really its own venture market” and some LPs actually believed that.

Sales 150
article thumbnail

Maximize Your Exit By Not Selling Your Company

InfoChachkie

Although this option was not attractive to the management team, it was a viable alternative circa 2005 and it would have allowed our institutional investors to liquidate their investments. To bolster our negotiating position, we engaged an investment banking firm to explore the IPO market. We eventually sold Expertcity to Citrix for $230M.

Company 160