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IPO Slowdown? Not For This Market: Santa Barbara

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Amid hand wringing about an IPO slowdown in 2015, there's one shining region which had a banner IPO and acquisition year last year: Santa Barbara. There were five exits north of $100.0M billion for that company, acquisition at Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. along the Central Coast, including three IPOs.

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

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Our new customer acquisition has grown and our costs have plummeted. We are actually getting paid now to obtain customers, so our customer acquisition costs are now negative. A negative customer acquisition cost! You've been blogging for a while, what are five good posts that I should check out? Great posts.

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TMP Talks: Jim Andelman on New Venture Investing

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Below is a talk on New Venture Investing from the University of California Santa Barbara’s Technology Management Program, by Jim Andelman. In this video Jim Andelman explores venture capital investing and the emergence of capital efficient businesses. Bio: Jim Andelman, co-founder and General Partner of Rincon Venture Partner.

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Limit… less: Ignore Limits – Focus On Opportunities

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Five Dollars And Two Hours. 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.

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Entrepreneur Hack: This Remote Team Of 12 Generated $100M

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I asked TaxJar’s Co-Founder and CEO, Mark Faggiano to list five reasons his decentralized venture has flourished. 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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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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He has raised more than $200 million on behalf of his companies and led more than 30 acquisitions. He is also the co-founder of Playsino, ExpressCoin (Bitcoin exchange), GoCoin (Bitcoin payment platform), Five Delta, Evertune, GamesTV, Digital Entertainment Network, KnCMiner.cn (Bitcoin Mining), and Robocoin China (Bitcoin ATM).

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

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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. I spent five years getting the multimedia minor at Loyola Marymount to happen. Tell me a bit about your background.

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