SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I roughly know about MakeItWork, but tell me a bit about where you spend your time day-to-day. I have a few meetings with the team, perhaps about the website design, radio show structure, an event we are working on, a sponsorship (perhaps the uniforms for our youth basketball team). I recently posted about SEO for Startups.

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socalTECH

MAY 4, 2018

Santa Barbara-based Sonos --which reportedly has filed for a confidential IPO with the SEC--expects to have its IPO in June, according to multiple reports, meaning that the IPO paperwork for the company should be made available soon to the public. The IPO would reportedly value Sonos at between $2.5 billion and $3.0

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Santa Barbara Report Services Startup 100

socalTECH

JULY 18, 2017

A look at the companies who are private, backed by venture capital, and are valued at more than $1 billion across Southern California -- from San Diego to Los Angeles to Santa Barbara -- is an interesting contrast in the wide range of types of technology companies across the region. Send tips our way at info@socaltech.com!

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InfoChachkie

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. Curious to learn more about the pain and joys of bootstrapping a business, I sat down with Jim Semick, the company’s Co-Founder and Chief Strategist. Semick: They are.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2014

Santa Barbara-based ShipHawk (www.shiphawk.com) is looking to solve the problem of pretty much shipping anything large (like cars and furniture) or unique, with its online shipping service--think "Kayak" for shipping. It sounds like you work with a lot of partners to get this done, can you talk about how that works?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

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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InfoChachkie

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.

Startup 100

Startup Santa Barbara Networking Services 100

InfoChachkie

APRIL 1, 2013

You can watch Marten tell his entertaining story in the following 15-minute excerpt from his UC Santa Barbara talk. The second major challenged faced by MySQL was the surprise acquisition of one of its key partners, InnoDB, by Oracle. and we managed over time to turn it (the acquisition) into a strength.".

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Oracle Startup News Press 229

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Tell me a bit about your background. 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. You are writing about the essentials of business. That's great.

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Startup SEO Pepperdine Blogging 150

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them. Is there a downside to Accountability?

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

Ever fantasized about climbing Mt. How about hiking in Patagonia without carrying a 60-pound backpack and eating freeze dried food? Kurt and his crew can make these, and about 35 of other once-in-a-lifetime treks, a reality. How has this reality impacted your customer acquisition strategies? but we don''t.

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Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Resource 187

InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

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. From Lynda.com ’s recent $1.5

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Santa Barbara Startup Sales Entrepreneur 100

socalTECH

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. We sat down with president and co-founder, Mark Cromack, to hear more about the company. You've got an interesting team, can you talk about the background of the founders?

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Santa Barbara Startup Software Review Technical Review 100

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

I review these tenets with my entrepreneurial students at UC Santa Barbara at the beginning of each quarter to reinforce many of the key topics we will cover in the following weeks. Obsess About Customers, Not Colleagues Or Competitors. “We The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.

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Tips Startup Framework Customer 279

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

VC's love to talk about their successes. 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. spoke with Jeff for about 40-minutes. John Greathouse <john *@ *.com>

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 14, 2011

Rushing to a goldfield and casting about with picks and shovels, hoping one might “strike it rich” is not entrepreneurial. To this end, neither my wife nor I knew anyone when we moved to Santa Barbara in 1993. A gold rush is essentially an adult treasure hunt. They sought a different type of treasure. from the Wharton School.

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Guide Santa Barbara Entrepreneur Course 145

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 14, 2011

Rushing to a goldfield and casting about with picks and shovels, hoping one might “strike it rich” is not entrepreneurial. To this end, neither my wife nor I knew anyone when we moved to Santa Barbara in 1993. A gold rush is essentially an adult treasure hunt. They sought a different type of treasure. from the Wharton School.

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Guide Santa Barbara Entrepreneur Course 145

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

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.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. We caught up with Skyler to hear about HeyTutor, which already has 25 employees and is growing rapidly. HeyTutor is about connecting people hyper-locally. In this industry, customer acquisition costs are super high.

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Startup Venture Capital Beverly Hills Acquisition 113

InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

We have separate channels for work but we also talk about fun things just like any office watercooler. He then joined Picasa and was instrumental in its acquisition by Google. Dan shared his entrepreneurial insights with my UC Santa Barbara students, including the manner in which he built a virtual organization.

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Entrepreneur Santa Barbara Email Outsource Development 100

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2010

To learn about Ms. 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. from the Wharton School.

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Santa Barbara Class Ideas Organization 191

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

To hear about the firm's interest in Los Angeles, and Southern California investments in general, we spoke with Fouad ElNaggar , Principal at the firm, to hear about where the firm is nowadays and what kind of investments it is making locally. Thanks for the time today. We really believe in the market.

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Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2015

After studying at UC Santa Barbara''s entrepreneurial program , he returned to Spain, excited to start a venture and make a positive impact on his homeland. Geographically, the distance between Spain and the US is about 4,715 miles. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. He founded Alpha Origins in 2011.

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Entrepreneur Startup Santa Barbara Venture Capital 100

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Much has been written about how Microsoft entered the operating system market and a number of ethical lessons can be drawn from the manner in which Microsoft handled its relationship with Intergalactic Digital Research, Mr. Kildall’s company. We did not ask them to accept our Santa Barbara, casual startup view of the world.

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IBM IBM Software Review Custom 124