socalTECH

JUNE 26, 2017

Santa Barbara- and New York-based clean technology investor NGEN Partners has scored an exit at Choose Energy , a startup which lets consumers comparison shop for and select electric energy providers, according to a report. The report, from Fortune, said the deal was worth less than $100M. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Barbara Southern California Report Resource 149

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 14, 2011

What intrigued me was the fact that the pigs left the comfort of their home and entered the “wide world” to “seek their fortunes.”. A 1909 version of the story describes the mother pig as calling, “her sons to her, and, with tears in her eyes, told them that she must send them out into the wide world to seek their fortune.”.

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Guide Santa Barbara Entrepreneur Course 145

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 14, 2011

What intrigued me was the fact that the pigs left the comfort of their home and entered the “wide world” to “seek their fortunes.”. A 1909 version of the story describes the mother pig as calling, “her sons to her, and, with tears in her eyes, told them that she must send them out into the wide world to seek their fortune.”.

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Guide Santa Barbara Entrepreneur Course 145

InfoChachkie

JULY 28, 2015

Although this is a somewhat unusual real estate transaction, it reflects a surprisingly common scenario in the business world of mergers and acquisitions, with one important distinction. There is a well-worn adage in the world of mergers and acquisitions that, “companies are not sold, they are bought.” My House Is Not For Sale.

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Company Companies Santa Barbara Pricing 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. Fortunately, he was ready. Note: I am a micro-Angel investor in Eucalyptus.

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Oracle Startup News Press 229

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. Is it hard to balance your work hard / play hard culture, especially in beautiful Santa Barbara? Cats or dogs?

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2010

Although this is a somewhat unusual real estate transaction, it reflects a surprisingly common scenario in the world of mergers and acquisitions, with one important distinction. Fortunately, we had several alternatives available to us, including: Access the public capital markets via an initial public offering (IPO).

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