2012 Course Santa Barbara Startup 
InfoChachkie
OCTOBER 20, 2014
Instead, grab your surfboard and head to UC Santa Barbara. Although UCSB has room to grow with regard to the total number of VC-backed startups it generates, the Santa Barbara region fares well when its relative size is taken into account. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Techpreneurs.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 16, 2014
We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Our last fund we raised was in 2012 and we began investing it in April of 2012.
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InfoChachkie
JANUARY 30, 2012
According to a January 2012 article in Forbes Magazine , nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. I generally encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to complete their formal education before joining or creating a startup. Effective startup mentorship can come from unlikely sources.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 28, 2013
Companies being created has continued to go up dramatically making managing dealflow nearly impossible. Of course I thank the whole team but hard not to call out Courtney specifically. Thank you to the team that had extreme success in 2012 and a more challenging year in 2013. Startup Advice' What an unexpected surprise!
InfoChachkie
DECEMBER 1, 2011
In Everything (Including Startups) Is A Remix , I discuss the brilliant series of films created by Kirby Ferguson, which focus on the origin of creativity in music, film and business. As I note in Spilling The Beans , the basic ideas upon which startups are founded are worth nothing. When I started the series, I was working full time.
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