InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

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.

Venture Capital 115

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Jordan Glazier: For example, say you have a friend coming to San Diego, and they ask you where they should stay. Using travel as an example, we already are partners with all of the travel partners you could imagine, such as Hotels.com, Booking.com, Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, Priceline, etc. What does that look like?

San Diego 159

San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

We'll even write a half a million check. My competition is not Rustic Canyon, it's not Clearstone, or the other venture firms in town. We just did a deal with Rincon Ventures on a deal in Santa Barbara, and we're partnering with other firms on deals, and we'd like to see more. That as unhealthy.

GRP Partners 157

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Strictly for example sake I’ll take our mission at Upfront Ventures. In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. I wanted to just write. I like writing. We established our brand to lay out our belief system codified in a word: Upfront. I hate editing.

Startup 150

Startup Coach Course Invest 150