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Success, Santa Barbara Style: Patagonian Sexwax With A Side Order of UGGS

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A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. 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.

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UCSB Tops Harvard & Wharton In Startup Wars

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A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Instead, grab your surfboard and head to UC Santa Barbara. Although UCSB has room to grow with regard to the total number of VC-backed startups it generates, the Santa Barbara region fares well when its relative size is taken into account. Organic Academia.

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Competition Is A Lie – Tracy DiNunzio Explains Why

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A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. Tracy''s frank, pragmatic and somewhat controversial comments were presented as part of UC Santa Barbara''s Distinguished Lecture Series. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles!

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Non-millennial Bootstrapping – These 50-Something Entrepreneurs Rejected VC $ And Nailed It

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A version of this article previously appeared Forbes. I have been watching ProductPlan for several years, as the founders are both friends and pillars of the Santa Barbara Startup Community. I have always worked on early stage products. Greathouse: Great products and companies that came out (of) Santa Barbara.

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

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A version of this article previously appeared Forbes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! In contrast, TaxJar, a SaaS solution which makes automates online sales tax calculations, reporting and filings, is an entirely virtual company.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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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. free weekly Infochachkie articles! The ‘Santa Barbara effect’ has been interesting–we all have cute VC stories around that.

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Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital

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All four companies were in Los Angeles (or adjacent … Santa Barbara) and our community has now matured and regularly produces billion dollar+ outcomes. Our goal is to produce a $10 billion+ winner and remain the market leader in this SaaS category of AI in Sales & Marketing. Guess you missed Coinbase.