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Interview with Elizabeth Cholawsky, HG Data

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For this morning's interview, we caught up with Elizabeth Cholawsky , the new CEO of Santa Barbara-based HG Data (www.hgdata.com), which develops software which helps marketers and salespeople understand the "technology stack" of their potential customers and prospects. Elizabeth Cholawsky: I never lost my ties to Santa Barbara.

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Mindflash Hires Mint.com Vet, Launches Private Beta

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Santa Barbara-based Mindflash.com , a provider of online training software for small businesses, said today that it has named Donna Wells as its new President and CEO. The firm--which offers self-driven, online employee training courses--also said that it has launched into private beta. Wells was most recently CMO of Mint.com.

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Reflections on 2018: Andy Wilson, Alliance for SoCal Innovation

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In my new role as the first executive director for the Alliance for Southern California Innovation, I spent a lot of time outside of my home turf of Pasadena -- visiting innovation nodes such as San Diego, Irvine, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Venice, Santa Monica, and others.

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Non-millennial Bootstrapping – These 50-Something Entrepreneurs Rejected VC $ And Nailed It

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I have been watching ProductPlan for several years, as the founders are both friends and pillars of the Santa Barbara Startup Community. Greathouse: Great products and companies that came out (of) Santa Barbara. We build product roadmap software – it’s a SaaS company based here in Santa Barbara, California.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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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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Limit… less: Ignore Limits – Focus On Opportunities

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Santa Barbara Foundation. A number of years ago, I was honored to join the Santa Barbara Foundation’s Katherine Harvey Fellows. He is a member of the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Faculty where he teaches several entrepreneurial courses. To learn about Ms. from the Wharton School.

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Create An Industry Alliance Entrepreneurs: Need Friends On The Startup Playground

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In early December of 1818, Jose de la Guerra devised a brilliant plan to thwart the French pirate Hippolyte de Bouchard who was lurking off the coast of Santa Barbara, contemplating an attack. We hosted an annual user conference in Santa Barbara, attended by a couple hundred of the world’s top surgeons.