socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Santa Monica-based membership-based airline Surf Air is telling potential customers that it recently reached 1200 members for its service, which allows members to take all-you-can-fly trips between the Los Angeles, Bay Area, Santa Barbara, Las Vegas, San Diego, and other areas via its own fleet of turboprops.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2015

Despite the fact that I teach entrepreneurship at UC Santa Barbara , I do not believe that entrepreneurs are created in classrooms. Instead of trying to teach students to be an entrepreneur, I expose my entrepreneurial students to tools that will help them solve real-world problems. Experiential. Image: Pixabay.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 7, 2011

My entrepreneurial students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, often ask my advice regarding their career choices. Advice For Emerging Entrepreneurs. "By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day." " Robert Frost, American Poet. Monkey See.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

As I noted in Why Most Business Books (Still) Suck , I am generally not a fan of business books. Although many are entertaining, most fail to provide entrepreneurs with a sufficient return on their time investment. Unfortunately, most business books do not offer entrepreneurs an adequate payoff. No doubt, he did.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 22, 2013

In their new book Startup Life , serial entrepreneur and venture investor Brad Feld, along with his wife Amy Batchelor, describe what has, and has not, worked for them during their 22-year relationship. Brad is in the midst of writing a series of startup-oriented books. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 22, 2013

In their new book Startup Life , serial entrepreneur and venture investor Brad Feld, along with his wife Amy Batchelor, describe what has, and has not, worked for them during their 22-year relationship. Brad is in the midst of writing a series of startup-oriented books. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

A number of my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students have asked my opinion of Robert Greene''s The 48 Laws Of Power , prompting me to check it out. Given the book''s commercial success, I had high hopes. Greeene wrote the book while struggling to suceed as a Hollywood screenwriter, I wasn''t surprised.

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 4, 2012

I recently went back to the University of California at Santa Barbara to give a leadership talk to about 250 students. Its a collection of life & business lessons that the most successful entrepreneurs have applied to achieve amazing feats. I wrap these lessons in my own personal journey (so far).

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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. They are both former entrepreneurs and current Partners at Foundry Group , a highly successful, early stage venture firm. Things I Loved.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And there is so much money around being thrown at so many entrepreneurs that many firms don’t even care about board seats, governance rights or heaven forbid doing work with the company because that would eat into the VCs time needed to chase 5 more deals. And the truth is that several entrepreneurs prefer it this way.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

I recently spoke with Steve Blank, author of the new book The Startup Owner’s Manual. Steve is also a Stanford Professor and noted marketing entrepreneur. So the fact that it is a badly edited, missing sentences, complete your own and finish your own sentences (book) – basically we can blame it all on Eric.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

If you enjoy snarky, clever prose, you should check out Chuck''s book. Greathouse : Let''s start with a question that will be especially helpful for my UC Santa Barbara students. If you could share one startup lesson with a young entrepreneur, what would it be? Even busy entrepreneurs need to take a break and recharge.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 5, 2015

A serial entrepreneur, Susan has a record of building value and community across several genre-defining companies. Susan graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara and is the author of ‘The e-Auction Insider’ by McGraw-Hill. She’s been on the founding team of 9 startups, six with successful exits.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 5, 2015

As a Professor of Practice in Entrepreneurship at UC Santa Barbara , students ask me dozens of times each quarter, “What do you think of my idea?” As the authors note, the book’s primary audience is readers who, “…have yet to quit their jobs (or graduate from college) and take the leap into entrepreneurship.”.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Photo courtesy of Santa Barbara Independent’s recent Techtopia Issue. Serial entrepreneurs agree that it is best to communicate with investors on an eighth grade level. In his book Fiction Writer’s Brainstormer, James V. Image: Santa Barbara Independent, all rights reserved. Still not convinced?

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The following guest post is from some of my former UC Santa Barbara students. After reading this book, Ben, Sid and Taylor realized they could do the same thing and become their own bosses. I thought this post might be of interest to some of my readers, as it offers a glimpse into my approach to teaching entrepreneurship. .

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Brian Coryat, Founder and CEO of Local Market Launch and former Founder and CEO of ValueClick (NASDAQ: VCLK) recently winged his talk at UC Santa Barbara''s Distinguished Lecture Series. I mean, that''s what entrepreneurs do every day. But that''s what entrepreneurs do everyday. I think I''ll just wing it'' and of course.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2010

Dismissing Mr. Alger’s works as juvenile rags to riches novels misses the author’s primary point and the reason why the books had such a tremendous impact on several generations of American entrepreneurs. Santa Barbara Foundation. Tags: Entrepreneur Fundraising The Fringe. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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AUGUST 18, 2010

The concept comes from a Stephen Covey book called “ First Things First ,&# which is a worthwhile book ( Wikipedia overview here ) but if you haven’t read his seminal book “ 7 Habits of Highly Effective People &# you should start with that. Get some seasoned entrepreneurs to come. I couldn’t.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 27, 2012

I recently reviewed Richard Courtney and George Cassidy’s published business book, Come Together – The Business Wisdom of The Beatles in the first entry of this series. . However, despite the book’s shortcomings, it contains a number of insightful lessons emerging entrepreneurs can apply to their startup careers.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

You can now take advantage of this wisdom directly as Brad has now published it for everybody in a fantastic new book, “Startup Communities.” ” Put simply, if you care about building a successful tech community outside Silicon Valley you should read this book. Think Fred Wilson, Tony Hsieh or Brad Feld. Maker Studios.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2016

Long before author Stephen King sold over 350 million books, he was a budding entrepreneur. Unlike entrepreneurs, whose survival is similarly based on their ability deliver value to their customers, politicians and big company executives routinely confuse activities with results. Activities Vs. Results.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Under the heading, “The Book On Bezos,” the callout lists ten actionable and impactful nuggets of startup advice. 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. “I’d

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Steve Reich

MARCH 29, 2012

inLife is a place to book fun things to do in your city… in Santa Barbara, they have kayak trips, wine tasting, yoga, happy hours, etc. And yes, they really can book paddle yoga. The inLife team then gave Sam Teller, the Managing Director of LaunchPad, their elevator pitch, and he fired questions back at them.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I’ve been thinking a lot about this over the past two years and bending the ears of any entrepreneur who will humor me to hear what I think the solution needs to look like. Sure, I’d like to know what my Facebook friends think about the wine, books, films, hotels, airlines, etc. Why can’t I have it?

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Just this week I met @MarshaCollier, the author of over 25 books on eBay. We created Superfriends, a group of local entrepreneurs that will gather to share ideas and help each other grow personally and professionally. Tags: Eric Greenspan 140conf Google Voice jeff pulver santa barbara social media tech news Twitter.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 14, 2011

As discussed in Nature Or Nurture , I believe that entrepreneurs are born rather than created by their environment. It was one of my favorite books as a child, although the moral, which impacted me, was not the obvious one (i.e., However, as I learned as child, entrepreneurs were attracted to the goldfields. The Kindling Is Set.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 14, 2011

As discussed in Nature Or Nurture , I believe that entrepreneurs are born rather than created by their environment. It was one of my favorite books as a child, although the moral, which impacted me, was not the obvious one (i.e., However, as I learned as child, entrepreneurs were attracted to the goldfields. The Kindling Is Set.

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2009

We've opened an office in Los Angeles, and continue to maintain one in Santa Barbara. For example, one of our investments was Boom Studios, the company that publishes comic books and turns those into films. It's really important to be local for entrepreneurs, when you're at the very beginning of a company's life.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 8, 2018

Steven Johnson, author of How We Got To Now , analyzes technological breakthroughs, looking for patterns that allow entrepreneurs to identify “How We’ll Get To Tomorrow.” Modern-day entrepreneurs use Evernote, Google Keep, etc. Seth is a design-oriented entrepreneur, with little desire to document details. Chaos By Design .

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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 ). Because many great entrepreneurs work with lawyers in registering their companies they have their ear to the pavement on the earliest of company formations.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

As is often said if you don’t get at least a few fellow VCs (and entrepreneurs) scratching their heads you may not be funding ideas with enough upside. He simply is inspirational as an entrepreneur, an inventor and as somebody who wants to make a difference in the world. Apeel Technologies.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 11, 2013

The young company has been heavily promoting its “all-you-can-fly” private flight service that can be booked in 30 seconds or less on a mobile device now that it has secured the necessary licenses from the United States government to operate its flights.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Likeabilitee (www.likeabilitee.com) has come up with a new, highly visual service which makes it very easy for you to analyze and understand how people are engaging with your social media posts on Facebook. We initially looked at LinkedIn, but we thought it would be more fun to do something in Face book.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2013

You can watch Sarah tell her compelling story in the following 15-minute excerpt from her recent UC Santa Barbara talk. I actually come from a long line of entrepreneurs. Five Tips For Emerging Entrepreneurs. Also, when you become super, super successful and you want to write your book, it''s helpful!".

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency. He is a media and digital media entrepreneur, senior executive, negotiator and dealmaker with an unbroken track record of success in start-up and emerging growth companies, as well as major and independent media companies. Want To Sponsor?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Teachers can also put the list of books for their course, and students can buy directly from their session or account. After that, I was involved in a lot of angel investing, starting companies, and helping entrepreneurs to get going. If you can imagine, you can have your entire educational life online. Talk about your background?

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