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. But the more I started to think about it, I said, well, why the hell not? I can have my employee do it in about two hours. In His Dorm.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The following guest post is from some of my former UC Santa Barbara students. These courses all proved to be serious influences on turning the dream of starting their own company into a reality. 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

JUNE 25, 2012

Seth began his entrepreneurial career when he dropped out of the University of California, Santa Barbara at 19 years old to start a clothing company, which he eventually built into a national line of denim products featured at Nordstrom, Macy’s and Neiman Marcus. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

John Lusk, along with his Co-Author Kyle Harrison, leveraged their humble company''s newsletter into The MouseDriver Chronicles , a New York Times bestselling book. The company''s newsletter was initially created to share their entrepreneurial journey with their family and friends. an email) to about 35 people.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. Who is providing the funding and backing for the company? Wildlink is backed by Mucker Capital.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2015

One of my top former students, Fredi Fernandez , recently sent me a compelling email. 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. Geographically, the distance between Spain and the US is about 4,715 miles.

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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. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

For instance, I might show a logo of Computer Motion, GoToMeeting, Citrix, UC Santa Barbara and Rincon Venture Partners on my first slide as a means of depicting my past and current professional affiliations. If you are a startup seeking funding, convey your company's origins, your current status and your ideal exit.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

As individuals we have choices about how we spend our time. I have always been good at prioritizing what is important but bad about starting my work early enough. There is something about the adrenaline rush of being under time pressure that excites us and teases out our creativity. Internally I was a wreck.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

We all now visit UGC sites to learn about products & services before we use them. 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. .&# I was thinking about the St. Why can’t I have it?

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

John Lusk, along with his Co-Author Kyle Harrison, leveraged their humble company''s newsletter into The MouseDriver Chronicles , a New York Times bestselling book. The company''s newsletter was initially created to share their entrepreneurial journey with their family and friends. an email) to about 35 people.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 7, 2013

So it was about in the 2004 timeframe that I made my first trip to Santa Barbara. had a very different philosophy about affiliate marketing than Be Free. and tell them what he knew and what he thought his place should be in the company. Let's just say that Greg was no longer employed by us about six months later.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Citrix's CEO, Mark Templeton, recently shared his insights regarding achieving personal and professional success as part of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series. Mark knows a bit about success and what it takes to reach the top of one's industry. You have to be realistic about who you are. It's a strategy.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 1, 2013

How did a small, open source software company from Finland capture billions in market share from Oracle? You can watch Marten tell his entertaining story in the following 15-minute excerpt from his UC Santa Barbara talk. spread over three different companies (and) we brought it all together. There were twelve people.

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OCTOBER 10, 2008

Most people have had the unfortunate experience of losing a portable electronic item -- a cell phone, iPod, or some other device -- while out and about. James Tamplin and Andrew Lee are the co-founders of the company, and sat down with us last week to talk about the company's service, and how it came about.

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MAY 13, 2013

You can watch John describe his surprising Hollywood journey in the following 20-minute excerpt from his recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. I am now 30 years old and the guy that''s in the opening band, who is about 42 or 43, was the hottest musician in Santa Barbara when I first came up and all I wanted to do was be him.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. We caught up with Skyler to hear about HeyTutor, which already has 25 employees and is growing rapidly. HeyTutor is about connecting people hyper-locally. What is HeyTutor? Here's the reason why.

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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. During our email exchange before our call, I had to ask him what he wanted to talk about. It turned out that he was looking for companies he could work with as a consultant. Self-aware? –

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InfoChachkie

JULY 22, 2013

We had about 20 people who contributed to the book, and some of the stories, like Jenny Lawton''s and Paul and Renee Berberian''s, were not just heartfelt but incredible in terms of peeling off layers of their own personal experiences that really impacted them.”. In Startup Life , we learn about monkey sex and Brad’s toilet seat preferences.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

To hear about the firm's interest in Los Angeles, and Southern California investments in general, we spoke with Fouad ElNaggar , Principal at the firm, to hear about where the firm is nowadays and what kind of investments it is making locally. It's difficult to add value to a portfolio company or entrepreneur.

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MARCH 30, 2012

New companies are being created at stunning speed by today’s founders. As you may have gathered from my blog, I’ve spent the last couple of months visiting with companies and incubators. My key takeaway–companies are being created faster and more cheaply than I would have believed possible. Of course not.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 13, 2009

My presentation began with a “moon&# themed, song-filled slideshow of the history of the company. The first slide was entitled, “ Once Upon a Time in Jorts &# as I found an old picture of myself and Jeremy Anticouni (we’ve worked together for 14 years, 3 companies) and sadly, I was wearing a pair of jorts.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

One day I get an email from Ms. Of course she asked me, I’m the CEO of a leading computer services company. The next day, I was in the Montecito Starbucks and I was approached by one of the parents that heard about our seminar, but didn’t attend. B, the school’s principal asking me to come into her office.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I roughly know about MakeItWork, but tell me a bit about where you spend your time day-to-day. A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. It’s something I speak about quite a bit (see Social Media to Build Reputation and Reach Prospects and Social Media for Service Professionals ).

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

Ever fantasized about climbing Mt. How about hiking in Patagonia without carrying a 60-pound backpack and eating freeze dried food? Kurt and his crew can make these, and about 35 of other once-in-a-lifetime treks, a reality. My research led me to Wildland Adventures, one of the pioneering companies in the ecotravel space.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

VC's love to talk about their successes. This latest round valued the company in excess of a billion dollars, entering them into the overly-hyped Unicorn Club. For us, it’s OK if we miss a great deal once in a while, so long as the companies we DO invest in generate outstanding returns. billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3

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JULY 21, 2016

As noted in What’s Real About Shark Tank , the show can give consumer product companies a significant marketing and revenue boost, as it did for one of my former students, Jeff Overall, Founder of PolarPro. A number of my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students initially model their investment pitches on the show's contrived format.

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APRIL 21, 2013

You can watch Sarah tell her compelling story in the following 15-minute excerpt from her recent UC Santa Barbara talk. It was that love of serving people that led me on my long journey of starting a company.". I took that lesson of integrity and brought it with me when I started my company. Million Dollar Inaugural Year.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

This all got me thinking about a post on how to best work with lawyers. When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. the link is here.

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DECEMBER 11, 2013

Santa Monica startup airline Surf Air has been spreading its wings in recent months and spreading the word about its initiatives at Silicon Beach events such as Social Media Week LA and Techweek LA. Surf Air CEO and Co-Founder Wade Eyerly spoke about his startup’s progress and goals on panels at Social Media Week LA and Tech Week LA.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. It feels like something you could turn your attention to once you have tens of millions of dollars and a large staff to run operations and you could step back from it all and think about how to lead. The reality of most startups is about survival.

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MAY 18, 2009

This morning's interview with Daryl Bernstein , CEO and co-founder of Santa Barbara-based RightSignature (www.rightsignature.com), a firm which has created an online, software-as-a-service offering to collect legally binding signatures on documents. Can you talk about the acceptance of electronic signatures and any legal issues there?

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

The reasons companies elect to sell exclusively offline differ, but they often center on managing channel conflict with their retail partners. In addition to the Z Supply brand, which offers comfortable fashion basics, the company has created Black Swan , Others Follow , Rag Poets and White Crow.

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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 sat down with president and co-founder, Mark Cromack, to hear more about the company. You've got an interesting team, can you talk about the background of the founders?

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JUNE 15, 2011

We caught up with CEO Eric Frankel this week to talk about the firm, his decision to go from the comfortable world of Hollywood as President of Warner Bros Domestic Television Distribution, to a startup, how the firm is using the cloud to power it service, as well as where the firm is going next. How did the company come about?

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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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