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Santa Barbara: the home of the clicks (and the calls)

Eric Greenspan

Jason is another local Santa Barbara CEO and we had a great chat about Make It Work, Ring Revenue, Affiliate Marketing and life in SB. The secret in this game is to start with a product that is viable to the online audience, garner attention from leading affiliates and then turning the traffic into paying customers.

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UCSB Tops Harvard & Wharton In Startup Wars

InfoChachkie

Instead, grab your surfboard and head to UC Santa Barbara. Although UCSB has room to grow with regard to the total number of VC-backed startups it generates, the Santa Barbara region fares well when its relative size is taken into account. The TMP is an example of lean academia. Want to be an entrepreneur?

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Non-millennial Bootstrapping – These 50-Something Entrepreneurs Rejected VC $ And Nailed It

InfoChachkie

I have been watching ProductPlan for several years, as the founders are both friends and pillars of the Santa Barbara Startup Community. Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS.

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Opening The Cloud: Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems

InfoChachkie

Eucalyptus’ underlying technology was developed at UC Santa Barbara. Although Eucalyptus is still a relatively small company from a personnel standpoint, it already counts twenty one of the Fortune 100 as it customers. A good example is the shoemaker Puma. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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Ten Startup Tips From Steve Jobs

InfoChachkie

He did more for Apple’s shareholders, customers and employees than any other CEO has ever done for their shareholders, customers and employees. He is a great example of…building an enchanting company.”. He overheard me talking about Steve Jobs in conjunction with the entrepreneurship class that I teach at UC Santa Barbara.

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Interview with Mike Hopkins, ICE Energy

socalTECH

Santa Barbara-based Ice Energy (www.ice-energy.com) has quietly been working away at developing energy storage systems to help smooth out the demand for energy on the nation's power grid. Our customer is not the building owner or tenant, it's the utility. How is it that utilities are your main customer?

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Want To Trip Out? This Entrepreneur Can Hook You Up

InfoChachkie

In fact, for the past 27-years, he has specialized in bringing exotic travel destinations to those of us who are healthy and active but whose competitive sporting days are long behind us. Greathouse : Let''s start with a question that will be especially helpful for my UC Santa Barbara students. Ever fantasized about climbing Mt.