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The Life This Wearable Saves Might Be Yours

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A Santa Barbara based company, Milo Sensors, is tackling this problem via a wearable that constantly alerts your smartphone of your blood alcohol level. We started Milo Sensors over two years ago through the UC Santa Barbara New Venture Competition. I love origin stories. What was the company’s genesis?

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13 Ecosystem Builders That Are Boosting Startup Growth

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BlackTech Week was created in 2014, and in four short years, they’ve gained over 2700 participants, 150 speakers, and 3 pitch competitions. Founded in 2013, digitalundivided leads high potential Black and Latino women founders through the startup pipeline with a focus on knowledge, research and community.

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Student-Founded Fantasy Pollster Is Hoping To Pick The Next President

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Greathouse: You and Brent are currently third and fourth year Computer Science majors at UC Santa Barbara. Since we have released our product, and are now looking to acquire new users, this has proven to be extremely valuable for getting a high return from our advertising expenditures. This is where our site comes in.

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Five Startup Tips From Bill Gates

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In Mark Suster’s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara , he advised his audience of entrepreneurial students to master two skills: selling and coding. Bill’s advice reflects Microsoft’s hardnosed culture, which encourages internal competition and a ruthless pursuit of the truth. I am not suggesting you spurn product excellence.

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Interview with Richard Koffler and John Morris, The Tech CEO Network

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We've initially focused on university-based research groups, and as we've gotten up and running, we've found that there's no need to limit it to just universities. If an existing company is not interested in licensing, and a researcher is not an entrepreneurial spirit, those projects go no where. Where is this talent coming from?

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Opening The Cloud: Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems

InfoChachkie

Eucalyptus’ underlying technology was developed at UC Santa Barbara. Since its origin as an academic research project in 2007, Eucalyptus has become the dominant open source cloud solution, boasting over 25,000 clouds formed. With generation three of Eucalyptus, we are adding high availability into the actual product.

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Nine Startup Tips From Michael Dell

InfoChachkie

I generally encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to complete their formal education before joining or creating a startup. Innovation is commonly associated with either the introduction of new products or new features added to existing products. Defining The Questions. "It's Look around.

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