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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

LogMeIn --which has significant operations in Santa Barbara, due to its acquisition of the Citrix GoToAssist, GoToMeeting, GoToMyPC, GoToTraining, GoToWebinar, and other businesses in 2016--has acquired Jive Communications , a developer of cloud-based phone systems for the Unified Communications (UC) market.

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MAY 20, 2021

Carpinteria-based construction management software developer Procore Technologies priced its IPO last night, saying it will sell 9,470,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $67.00 Morgan Securities, Barclays Capital, and Jefferies, along with Canaccord Genuity, KeyBanc Capital Markets, Oppenheimer & Co., Piper Sandler & Co.,

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APRIL 30, 2018

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. So, I cam on board. What were you doing before this?

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Santa Barbara-based FastSpring , which develops e-commerce software for subscription-based software businesses, has been acquired by private equity investor Accel-KKR. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 8, 2013

Santa Barbara-based Yardi , which develops real estate software, said last week that it has acquired Pierce-Eislen , a supplier of property and market research for the multifamily real estate industry. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Pierce-Eislen was based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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JULY 27, 2018

Santa Barbara-based Sonos, the developer of user-friendly, Internet-connected, whole-home audio systems, is expected to hit the market next Friday, August 3rd, according to the NASDAQ IPO Calendar. Sonos has applied to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market as SONO. and $19.00

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

Santa Barbara-based MEMs technology developer Innovative Micro Technology (IMT) said early this morning that it has received a majority equity financing from Cerium Technology. Cerium Technology is an investment firm focused on the Internet-of-Things (IoT) market. IMT is currently led by CEO Craig Ensley. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Santa Barbara-based Impact , which develops fraud protection, marketing attribution, partnership management, and related software, said today that it has acquired Mediarails , a developer of customer relationship management and marketing automation software. Financial details of the buy were not announced.

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JANUARY 27, 2014

Santa Barbara-based Resonant, Inc. , the Superconductor Technologies spinout which is developing radio frequency filters for the mobile industry, has filed for an IPO, saying that it is looking to raise up to $14.0M in an IPO on the Nasdaq Capital Market. The IPO offering is being underwritten by MDB Capital Group.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Santa Barbara-based Be Green Packaging , a designer of sustainable, compostable, and recyclable packaging for the consumer packaged goods market, has been acquired by private equity investor Riverside Company. begreen packaging cleantech recyclable riverside merger acquisition ecofriendly recycle compost' READ MORE>>.

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JULY 6, 2018

Santa Barbara-based Sonos , which develops very easy to use, connected whole-home speaker systems, has filed for an IPO, saying in a filing on Friday that it is looking to raise up to $100M in an offering on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. The company has applied to list as SONO. The company had a net loss of $14.2M

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MARCH 20, 2012

Looking to take on the classifieds market, FindTheBest , the online comparisons site run by former DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor, said today that it has launched a new "cars for sale" tool. The Santa Barbara startup said the entry into the classified market allows users to shop for cars by type, make, model, year, mileage, and color.

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MAY 10, 2011

Santa Barbara-based Novacoast , a provider of IT professional services and product development, said Monday that it has acquired Data Technique , a provider of IT services to the Midwest market. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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JULY 23, 2018

Santa Barbara-based Sonos , the developer of user-friendly, Internet-connected, whole-home audio systems, set its estimated IPO pricing range on Monday morning, the next step in bringing the company to market. Sonos has applied to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market as SONO. and $19.00 and $19.00

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JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. 10) Rob, why does the world need RingRevenue? .

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Yardi Systems , a developer of real estate and property management software, said late Thursday that it has acquired Point2 Technologies , a developer of online marketing software for the real estate industry. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Occam Networks , a developer of broadband switching equipment for the rural telecom market, is being acquired by Calix , the firms announced this morning. Petaluma-based Calix is a developer of broadband communications systems. per share of Occam Networks stock. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 15, 2016

Santa Barbara-based Advanced Scientific Concepts has sold off its ASCar Division, which develops LIDAR systems for the automotive industry, to Continental AG , the company said Monday. Financial terms of the sale were not announced. Advanced Scientific Concepts was founded in 1987. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 19, 2015

Goleta-based AppFolio has filed for an IPO, saying in a filing that it is hoping to raise up to $100M on the NASDAQ Global Market as APPF. Appfolio--which is led by Brian Donahoo--is venture backed by Investment Group of Santa Barbara and BV Capital, along with such local angels as Andreas von Blottnitz and Klaus Schauser.

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APRIL 4, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Yardi , which develops real estate investment and property management software, said today that it has acquired Lead Tracking Solutions , developer of the PopCard lead tracking and lead management software products. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 16, 2018

I have been watching ProductPlan for several years, as the founders are both friends and pillars of the Santa Barbara Startup Community. Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. In this industry, customer acquisition costs are super high. Customer acquisition costs can be as much as $200 an hour. However, because of our marketing and how efficient we are, we're able to make it work. It's the hub.

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APRIL 1, 2013

How did a small, open source software company from Finland capture billions in market share from Oracle? You can watch Marten tell his entertaining story in the following 15-minute excerpt from his UC Santa Barbara talk. It was the best marketing campaign ever. Note: I am a micro-Angel investor in Eucalyptus. We spent 1.6M

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

As noted in Success, Santa Barbara Style , my definition of success includes living where you want to live and making money doing what you love. For many entrepreneurs in Santa Barbara, achieving such success would be much more difficult if it weren’t for the emergence of an innovative airline – Surf Air.

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JULY 26, 2010

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. At Computer Motion, we created two alliances, comprised of a dozen companies with an aggregate market capitalization in excess of $28B.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. While at UC Santa Barbara, I started a café which served over 1100 dorm residents. Tell me a bit about your background. I have always been entrepreneurial and business focused.

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AUGUST 4, 2014

Greathouse : Let''s start with a question that will be especially helpful for my UC Santa Barbara students. Greathouse : Yes, it always seems to get harder to launch a startup when a market begins maturing. How has this reality impacted your customer acquisition strategies? At that time in travel it was very relevant.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mike has over 18 years of business development, marketing and management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. Dinesh’s passion is developing VoIP-driven startups and creating unique online growth strategies. Diamond Sponsor.

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JUNE 17, 2011

After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. He is also an active investor with stakes in companies like Hipmunk, GroupMe, Facebook, Zynga (acquisition stock), and SV Angels. He received a B.S.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. The difference is that VoiceXML does not leverage customers' knowledge of web development. billion). . <Note:

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MARCH 4, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Cogi (www.cogi.com) recently launched a phone-based service which allows users to transcribe conference calls and meetings. Before we talk about barriers, let's talk about market applicability. Even before we began the process of starting work on our software, we did extensive market validation.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Developed first floppy disk operating system. Kildall’s story than whether or not Microsoft competed fairly against his CP/M PC operating system, which by 1980, was overwhelmingly the market leader. Some of the additional “firsts” attributed to Kildall include: Wrote first PC operating system.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

After graduating from college, Bill and his brother Larry started GNP Development, Inc., In 1985, Lotus Development Corporation acquired GNP and Bill became a software entrepreneur at Lotus Development. Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services.

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