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How This Startup Kicked Oracle’s A$$

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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. I started helping them with strategy in 2000 and then. I was ready to give up. worth $15,000.

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Brad Feld: Secrets To A Successful Startup Life (Hint – Creating Wealth Ain’t Everything)

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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. I caught up with Brad between promotional events for Startup Life.

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With Greathouse Comes Great Responsibility

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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. The biggest motivator for starting brightblu was John Greathouse’s Entrepreneurship class. Fall quarter of Sr.

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6 Hands-on Tips To Conquer Your Entrepreneurial Fears

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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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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

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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. Upon graduation from Wharton, John and Kyle launched a startup based upon a simple, pedestrian product: a computer mouse shaped like the head of a golf driver.

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This 28 Year Old Woman Co-Founded One Of The Most Successful YouTube Networks

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You can watch Sarah tell her compelling story in the following 15-minute excerpt from her recent UC Santa Barbara talk. When people would ask me when I was a little kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would tell them ''a waitress,'' much to my mother''s chagrin. what started it all.". That video is.

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A Surprising Entrepreneurial Journey To The Pinnacle Of Hollywood

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You can watch John describe his surprising Hollywood journey in the following 20-minute excerpt from his recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. In John''s words, "This van pulls up, it''s the opening band. These guys (then) roll out of the van and start setting up their gear and I go, ''OK.

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