socalTECH

AUGUST 28, 2012

Sirigen , a developer of fluorescent biomarkers used in flow cytometry, and which was started at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been acquired by Becton, Dickinson and Co. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Sirigen is now based in the United Kingdom, and also has operations in San Diego.

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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. Greathouse: We’ve known each other for a long time but let’s start with the basics for my readers. Greathouse: Great products and companies that came out (of) Santa Barbara.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Callwave--which started in Santa Barbara, but recently moved its headquarters and executive team to San Francisco--said the move was a part of its review of strategic alternatives. CallWave did not say how the move affects its Santa Barbara operations. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Andy is a leader in the Southern Californian innovation ecosystem and has started, led or invested in more than two dozen tech start-ups.

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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.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

Thus, even though it is enticing to start a company based with a remote working structure, it is often a challenge to maintain a decentralized approach as a company expands beyond its founding team. He then joined Picasa and was instrumental in its acquisition by Google. And we did it all with about $30,000. No venture capital.”.

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socalTECH

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. We knew customer acquisition costs were a low lower than that value.

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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. That’s what we’ve started to tackle and the mission RightScale is on. 9) The story of how you started RightScale is classic.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 1, 2013

You can watch Marten tell his entertaining story in the following 15-minute excerpt from his UC Santa Barbara talk. I started helping them with strategy in 2000 and then. The second major challenged faced by MySQL was the surprise acquisition of one of its key partners, InnoDB, by Oracle. Yet Another Overnight Success.

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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. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. One of my top former students, Fredi Fernandez , recently sent me a compelling email.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Our Panelist Include: Brock Pierce - Starting & Investing in Bitcoin, Games, and Gambling Businesses. He has raised more than $200 million on behalf of his companies and led more than 30 acquisitions. Pierce also led the acquisition of Xfire from Viacom. and negotiated the company’s successful acquisition by Logitech, Inc.,

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. In my experience a big part of building a winning team is recognizing who the MVPs are from the start. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

Greathouse : Let''s start with a question that will be especially helpful for my UC Santa Barbara students. How has this reality impacted your customer acquisition strategies? Then we started advertising and getting media attention. Kutay graciously shared his multi-decade entrepreneurial journey with me.

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SoCal CTO

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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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 started a variety of different companies. Our founding CEO, Bob Dolan, founded ComDesign and started Callwave, the Internet based service for delivering Internet call waiting.

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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. From the start, Amazon had an audacious goal – to sell virtually every book online. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.’(If

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 14, 2011

The last thing I wanted to do was, “miss the starting gun.” To this end, neither my wife nor I knew anyone when we moved to Santa Barbara in 1993. He is a member of the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Faculty where he teaches several entrepreneurial courses. _. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 14, 2011

The last thing I wanted to do was, “miss the starting gun.” To this end, neither my wife nor I knew anyone when we moved to Santa Barbara in 1993. He is a member of the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Faculty where he teaches several entrepreneurial courses. _. — John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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Tech Zulu Event

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. Mike continues to be actively involved with early-stage start-ups as an investor, advisor and board member.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

A lifelong entrepreneur, Bill started several companies prior to Idealab. After graduating from college, Bill and his brother Larry started GNP Development, Inc., After graduating from college, Bill and his brother Larry started GNP Development, Inc., OrangicStartup’s is a company that helps Internet startups start.

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Tech Zulu Event

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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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

We did not ask them to accept our Santa Barbara, casual startup view of the world. As your adVenture succeeds, you can be less concerned with conforming to others’ reality and start creating a reality of your own. If they were Hospital Administrators from the Midwest, we would don the full monty (i.e., a coat, tie and socks).

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