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Sonos Names Microsoft Exec To Board

socalTECH

Santa Barbara-based Sonos announced this morning that it has named a current Microsoft executive-- Panos Panay , the Chief Product Officer at Microsoft--to the company's board of directors. Sonos is a developer of whole home audio systems, which are easy to use and connect into online streaming services. READ MORE>>.

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Better Business Bureau? For who?

Eric Greenspan

First Data of Santa Barbara has offered to extend below market rates to current accredited businesses like yours – again, just like they did for your BBB. First Data of Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, CA 93108. I then called Rick Copelan of the Santa Barbara BBB and asked him why they do this.

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Top Ten infoChachkie Entries Of 2011

InfoChachkie

I began publishing my blog in 2008. In addition, I was honored to speak with such notable entrepreneurs as: Kevin O’Connor (Founder DoubleClick and FindTheBest), Brad Feld (Founder TechStars, Partner The Foundry Group), Marten Mickos (Founder MySQL and CEO of Eucalyptus Systems) and Len Short (CMO, (Product) RED, AOL and Charles Schwab).

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13 Ecosystem Builders That Are Boosting Startup Growth

Tech.Co

I was very excited by how inclusion was such a priority in the space, Startup of the Year wanted to work with us to make sure the event reflected our community ,” said Denayja Reese, Partnerships and Production Manager of BlackTech Week. Indiegogo has brought more than 800,000 ideas to fruition since 2008.

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Streamlining The Sports Recruiting Process with FieldLevel

socalTECH

They were very small shcools--he went to Cate, which is inland from Ventura in the Santa Barbara area, and I went to The Thacher School, and we both ended up at the University of Southern California. We took that feedback, and developed it into a really streamlined, minimal viable product. How''d you get over that hurdle?

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

There were no unicorns in sight on April 14th, 2008 when Kevin O'Connor, my Partner Jim Andelman and I met Twilio's Founder and CEO, Jeff Lawson. A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1 billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 billion).

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

Tech Zulu Event

Successfully negotiated ground breaking deals with several of the major media companies whose content became the basis for many of these products. Babak received a BA degree in Business Economics and Communications from the University of California, Santa Barbara. More panelist to be announced soon. Want To Sponsor?

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