InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I began publishing my blog in 2008. I was hesitant to use my own name, as I did not want my blog to be perceived as a self-promotional vanity project. In addition, my role as Partner at Rincon Venture Partners provided me with a business reason to invest additional time and effort into my humble blog. I was not disappointed.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 21, 2009

(great Yahoo blog post here). Last week, after a quick trip to Dallas and back, I had the privilege of speaking in front of a high school class at Dos Pueblos High in Santa Barbara, California.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 21, 2009

(great Yahoo blog post here). Last week, after a quick trip to Dallas and back, I had the privilege of speaking in front of a high school class at Dos Pueblos High in Santa Barbara, California.

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Draper Santa Barbara Yahoo Class 113

Xconomy

MAY 3, 2017

He moved to Santa Barbara, CA, where he established what he calls “a little subsidiary” of the SBP institute, and joined the faculty of UC Santa Barbara. In early 2002, the Finnish-born scientist Errki Ruoslahti stepped down as CEO of what is now San Diego’s Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2011

I just got off the phone with someone who wanted my help getting networked into the Santa Barbara business community. If he had spent any time reading my blog, he would have understood that I am not a fan of consultants , especially at startups. I do not expect everyone I speak with to be a fan of my humble blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

I’m thankful for SurfAir whose Santa Barbara to SF Bay Area flight has allowed the executives at Invoca to be in SF & the Peninsula every week leading to our biggest year of revenue growth and a business now destined for 9-figure success. Finally, thank you to the readers of this blog. Oh, and thank you to Nick Foles.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years. It has also influenced my thoughts, as evidenced by the six infoChachkie blog entries which reference Art. Quarter-after-quarter, it has inspired and enlightened my students. Tricking The Jedi.

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Technical Review Blogging Class Entrepreneur 279

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

I wrote a blog post on how to work with lawyers at a startup nearly two-and-a-half years ago. Michael Pfau (Santa Barbara … Reicker Pfau). This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. It was very widely read. It should be: Local; Right-sized; and. Startup-focused.

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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. I can be found on LinkedIn , have a blog Holocognics and my firm’s website is www.SolutionsLLP.com.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Also, as you know, I launched my blog along with the rest of my team. You can read their blogs on my links. are all soon to be found on our blog in one centralized place. TOMORROW’S ENTRY: In tomorrow’s blog post, I will discuss how I got Countrywide/BofA to reduce my mortgage payment by $10k/month.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Also, as you know, I launched my blog along with the rest of my team. You can read their blogs on my links. are all soon to be found on our blog in one centralized place. TOMORROW’S ENTRY: In tomorrow’s blog post, I will discuss how I got Countrywide/BofA to reduce my mortgage payment by $10k/month.

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Technical Review Santa Barbara Blogging Yammer 100

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

As part of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, serial entrepreneur and noted venture capitalist Mark Suster recently shared his advice with a large crowd of emerging entrepreneurs. Mark is a Partner at GRP Partners and authors one of the most widely read startup blogs, BothSidesOfTheTable. Flip Burgers.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2010

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. Copyright © 2007-9 by J.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

venture funding and business deals, technology develops, and more from Santa Barbara. your business on the map with national news coverage and blog buzz for only $999 a. socalTECH.com offers up continuous coverage of Southern California's growing high. to San Diego. experts, developers, and many, many others.

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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. 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

JUNE 3, 2013

You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. blogging, in a sense. If we had a blogging platform then, we would have been blogging. From 35 To 500 Readers. every three weeks.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 26, 2009

We have regular monthly meetings in Westlake Village, Hollywood, Santa Barbara, & Newport Beach. I'm hoping that Baron and Kurt come up with one that's in Santa Monica / West LA. You should check out my blog for my 'go to' people - I have them listed on my posse section. I've heard great things about their events.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The following guest post is from some of my former UC Santa Barbara students. I thought this post might be of interest to some of my readers, as it offers a glimpse into my approach to teaching entrepreneurship. . Fall quarter of Sr.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2020

The second thing that drove this, and I have a blog post I'll be posting on this, is my own personal journey as an entrepreneur and also as a founder of Crosscut. But, they didn't feel comfortable saying that, hold on a second, my world is falling apart. It's developed quite a bit from when we first conceptualized the firm in 2008.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. blogging, in a sense. If we had a blogging platform then, we would have been blogging. From 35 To 500 Readers. every three weeks.

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Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

As an Instructor of entrepreneurship at UC Santa Barbara, I welcomed the chance to read Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson’s Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer And Venture Capitalist. Brad and Jason have been exposing venture capitalists’ secrets since 2005, when they began writing a blog series on Term Sheets at AskTheVC.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Writing Guide 205

Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

As you may have gathered from my blog, I’ve spent the last couple of months visiting with companies and incubators. inLife signed up dozens of merchants in Santa Barbara for their activity site. New companies are being created at stunning speed by today’s founders. If you can’t keep up, you are dead.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Sometimes I make a blog entry. You've been blogging for a while, what are five good posts that I should check out? Santa Barbara: the home of the clicks (and the calls) , Do your kids Google poo? A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. Just found the title of my post.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

I know that would be surprising to many readers since keeping a blog somehow convinces people that I’m a time management or productivity ninja. I was on vacation in Santa Barbara two years ago with my wife and I was reflecting on what I had learned in my first year in LA and in VC. I’m not.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

The funding, provided by Santa Barbara, CA-based Rincon Venture Partners and Venice, CA-based CrossCut Ventures, represents the first institutional investment for Zingle. The company raised $1 million last year, according to a 2015 regulatory filing.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2014

Jeff Overall: It all started back in 2011, when I was going to the University of Santa Barbara. I saw that there were a few solutions out there people were blogging about out there, mostly about taping polarized filters on the cameras. What''s the story behind the company? So, I started looking for a few solutions to fix that.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2016

A number of my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students initially model their investment pitches on the show's contrived format. You can also check out my hands-on startup advice blog HERE. I have seen the effects of this distortion first hand. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

As John Greathouse noted in his blog entry, Putting “Trade” Back Into Tradeshows , several years ago, I pulled off a guerilla marketing coup at a large tradeshow by hiring actors to portray monks. Seth attended UC Santa Barbara, but dropped out to start a denim company. . Parcours Ninjas Vs. The Austin Police. By: Seth Epstein.

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2019

[ Editor’s note: This is part of a series examining the internet’s first 50 years and predicting the next half century. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. ] The internet nearly came with built-in caller ID.

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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. Greathouse : Yes, I agree that your team has done a great job of speaking with a consistent and genuine voice on your site and blog entries. but we don''t.

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Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Resource 187

Xconomy

JULY 2, 2019

[ Editor’s note: This is part of a series examining the internet’s first 50 years and predicting the next half century. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future.

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.Net Report Web Research 87

Xconomy

JUNE 12, 2019

Academic researchers have long studied gender and racial disparities in STEM education, but they have not had widespread success in addressing these challenges. A University of Michigan professor and colleagues from 10 universities are hoping to change that.

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Equity Class Education Course 85

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2017

A Silicon Valley entrepreneur has set out to boost the startup ecosystem in San Diego and the rest of Southern California—and he already has scored a coup by partnering with Bill Maris, the founder and former CEO of Google Ventures, now known as GV.

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Southern California San Diego Startup Google 96

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). We’ve had great experiences with Michael Pfau in Santa Barbara. I know that people have an allergy to lawyers out of fear of being screwed.

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