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UCSB Tops Harvard & Wharton In Startup Wars

InfoChachkie

According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California. All-Star Alumni. Am I biased?

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Planning Your Fund Raising — “Measure Twice, Cut Once”

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re a SaaS company and the firm is a “consumer” firm (or vice versa) then don’t waste your time. If you’re building an education startup and you don’t see any logos of education companies on the firm’s website you are likely targeting the wrong firm. The next pass is the “competitive pass”?—?have

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

SaaS 101: 7 Simple Lessons From Inside HubSpot - OnStartups , July 19, 2010 It’s been a little over 4 years since I officially launched my internet marketing software company , HubSpot. So, I’ve had about 4 years on the “inside” of a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS startup. I got a taste of that within my first weeks on the job.

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Meet the Investors & Tech Leaders Judging at Startup Night SXSW 2018

Tech.Co

Also at Startup Night will be 25 diverse and innovative startups showcasing their latest products, competing for prizes including: $1K from LaunchKC , Business Extra Points from American Airlines , and a fast tracked spot to the Startup of the Year semifinals competition at Innovate Celebrate 2018. Marissa Lowman, Investor at Village Capital.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Lookout – SaaS provider of security and data back-up services for smart phones. Competition: McAfee , Symantec. Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010. Total Raised: $9.64mm. Read more: TechCrunch , ReadWriteWeb , TheNextWeb. If you want the easy version you can read that story here !

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6 Tips for Building Relationships with Journalists

Both Sides of the Table

Given a choice of your marketing person or talking to you (the founder) there’s no competition. On many occasions I’ve offered to give 30 minute industry overviews on a tech topic to journalists when they’re not working on a deadline and want to better understand a topic like SaaS, Cloud, LBS, etc.

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Meet the 25 Startups Competing at SXSW Startup Night 2018

Tech.Co

The company also educates people about their rights on capture data when interacting with law enforcement. Tapping into a niche community is part of Quirktastic Media’s competitive advantage. Spinbackup is a Google Cloud Partner and provide Cloud-to-Cloud backup and cyber security solutions for SaaS data. Price: $1.99

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