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

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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. From Lynda.com ’s recent $1.5 Share and Enjoy.

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Citrix GoToTraining Adds Social Features

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The Santa Barbara-based arm of Citrix Systems , which develops GoToMeeting and other online communications and sharing software, said today that it ad tied its GoToTraining training software with Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. READ MORE>>.

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You Can’t Teach People To Be Entrepreneurs, But Entrepreneurs Can Be Taught

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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. out of 5 in both Helpfulness and Clarity.

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Why A Prominent Startup Executive Wants You To Fail, Get Fired And Focus

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Kim Kovaks, Founder and CEO OptionEase , recently spoke to a class of emerging entrepreneurs at UC Santa Barbara. With over 700 customers, OptionEase has become the leading enterprise class SaaS solution for stock option and equity compensation tracking and compliance. Getting Fired.

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The Life This Wearable Saves Might Be Yours

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A Santa Barbara based company, Milo Sensors, is tackling this problem via a wearable that constantly alerts your smartphone of your blood alcohol level. We started Milo Sensors over two years ago through the UC Santa Barbara New Venture Competition. As such, none of us had the benefit of your TMP classes (laughs).

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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

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Geographically our strategy is to fund about 50% of our deals in Southern California (from San Diego to Santa Barbara) and 50% of our deals on a national basis. Whereas the first two funds I was involved in helping raise each took more than a year this fund was less than 6 months. So, yes, it’s hard.

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Attention Startup Accelerators: Your Job Is Not Over After Demo Day

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Obtaining funding is a key milestone, but equally important is helping fledgling companies build institutional mass once they leave the relatively safe confines of an accelerator. Bringing an accelerators’ graduates back as mentors provides value to the next class, certainly. Convert Graduate-Founders Into Mentors. Share and Enjoy.

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