InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

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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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 3, 2012

Seth Epstein, Founder and CEO SocialStay , former Founder and CEO of FUEL (acquired by Razorfish) and Emmy Award winner for his work on the X-Games, recently spoke at UC Santa Barbara as part of the Technology Management Program’s Distinguished Lecture Series. Find problems in the area you are passionate about.

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Ideas Guide Startup Santa Barbara 266

InfoChachkie

JULY 7, 2014

At Expertcity and Computer Motion, despite the fact that both companies were comprised of about 50 – 200 employees at the time, we routinely recruited 30 - 50 interns each summer. Competition – Make it clear that only the best interns will be granted offers for full-time positions. We typically hired about one third of our interns.

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Startup Santa Barbara Competition Class 257

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.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2014

Competitive Rivalry - Constructive internal competition that does not derail a startup from achieving its strategic goals will enhance your teams overall performance. Founders should encourage a healthy rivalry among each other, while modulating such competition so that it does not escalate into destructive behaviors.

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Startup Santa Barbara Competition Journal 257

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. Internally at Upfront Ventures we talk about “high consensus” vs. controversial deals with “high conviction.”

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Geographically our strategy is to fund about 50% of our deals in Southern California (from San Diego to Santa Barbara) and 50% of our deals on a national basis. For some reason that I haven’t yet figured out, Limited Partners seems to be pretty confidential about which firms they’ve invest in.

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Venture Capital Funding Technical Review Startup 396

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Glazier--who is was most recently CEO of Eventful, but has a long history in San Diego's tech industry--sat down with us to talk about the new startup. When you look at social messaging, and talk about social messaging, we're talking about social media, text messaging, email, and chat applications. How does this work?

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San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

A number of my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students have asked my opinion of Robert Greene''s The 48 Laws Of Power , prompting me to check it out. Mr. Greene''s book might be applicable to Hollywood''s super-competitive, mean-spirited culture. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. Image : Wikipedia.

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Hollywood Santa Barbara Entrepreneur Customer 227

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

You can build a meaningful company just about wherever these days. Thus, a desire to invest more locally where I think I have a competitive advantage. And then there are smatterings (Dallas 2x, DC 3x, Philly 3x, Austin, Boulder, Seattle not to mention San Diego 8x, Santa Barbara 8x – where I invested in RingRevenue).

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Venture Capital Marketing Santa Barbara Startup 365

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 10, 2011

He overheard me talking about Steve Jobs in conjunction with the entrepreneurship class that I teach at UC Santa Barbara. He proceeded to tell me several interesting and entertaining stories about Steve (all flattering), dating back to the early-1980’s. He simply stated his opinion and went about his busy day.

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Tips Startup Santa Barbara Entrepreneur 279

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

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. Ever fantasized about climbing Mt. How about hiking in Patagonia without carrying a 60-pound backpack and eating freeze dried food?

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Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Resource 187

socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2014

Jeff Overall: It all started back in 2011, when I was going to the University of Santa Barbara. I saw that there were a few solutions out there people were blogging about out there, mostly about taping polarized filters on the cameras. We also have a cool microphone we''re about to release next month.

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Startup Van Nuys Patents Santa Barbara 196

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

I generally encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to complete their formal education before joining or creating a startup. "Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships." " [Tweet this quote]. Innovations Are More Than Technological Features. "Our

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Tips Startup Entrepreneur Santa Barbara 247

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 12, 2015

One of these bright lights is Santa Barbara-based HG Data - developers of the world's largest competitive-intelligence database. <Note: Notwithstanding this discouraging statistic, there’s hope, as an increasing number of companies are proactively pursuing diversity of thought within their workforce.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 8, 2018

Seth Epstein, former Founder and CEO of FUEL (acquired by Razorfish) and Emmy Award winner for his work on the X-Games, graciously spoke at UC Santa Barbara’s Innovator Stories Series. Find problems in the area you are passionate about. Competition – which competitors will prove to be the most formidable?

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Ideas Startup Technical Review Santa Barbara 69

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them. 9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. 9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams.

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Steve Reich

MARCH 29, 2012

inLife is a place to book fun things to do in your city… in Santa Barbara, they have kayak trips, wine tasting, yoga, happy hours, etc. Sam had a rapid-fire series of questions about techology, marketing, and competitive differentiation. And yes, they really can book paddle yoga.

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Santa Barbara Santa Monica Competition Entrepreneur 51

InfoChachkie

MARCH 24, 2016

Greathouse: You and Brent are currently third and fourth year Computer Science majors at UC Santa Barbara. a correspondent on the show, did an excellent piece about election betting, and how it would increase political participation without the negative externalities associated with other types of gambling. Roy Wood Jr.,

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Startup Sites Research Santa Barbara 100

socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2009

We sat down with Managing Director Scott Lenet last week, ahead of the announcement, to chat about the new fund and what the firm is investing in now. Scott Lenet: We're really excited about the new fund. We've opened an office in Los Angeles, and continue to maintain one in Santa Barbara. Congrats on the new fund.

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Santa Barbara Entrepreneur Funding Invest 124

InfoChachkie

MARCH 9, 2019

As a Professor at UC Santa Barbara , I constantly battle Hollywood’s stereotype of the rapacious, maniacal businessperson, by teaching my students that Honesty is a competitive advantage. Measure What Matters – The McDonald brothers were dogmatic about tracking metrics. Laurie Anderson, American Musician.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. We've heard quite a bit about your mentoring efforts here, can you talk about that?

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 20, 2011

Despite the fact that both companies were comprised of about 100 – 150 employees at the time, we routinely recruited 30 to 50 Interns each summer. Competition – Make it clear that only the best Interns will be granted offers for full-time positions. This explicit competitive element will cause the high-achievers to excel. .

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

This all got me thinking about a post on how to best work with lawyers. When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. Shame about that pesky FAS 157 ruling.

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Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

VC's love to talk about their successes. We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. spoke with Jeff for about 40-minutes. John Greathouse <john *@ *.com>

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

To better understand what they're trying to do, we spoke with both Richard and John about the group. It's trying to determine if there is a viable way to go to market, and also deal with competitive issues. Thanks for the time today. What is the idea behind the Tech CEO Network? Last week, John and I met with Dina Lozofsky, now at U.C.

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Networking Research Startup USC 215

socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2015

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. Can you talk about your technology? Can you talk about that? megawatts of energy. megawatts of energy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. It feels like something you could turn your attention to once you have tens of millions of dollars and a large staff to run operations and you could step back from it all and think about how to lead. The reality of most startups is about survival.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 6, 2015

I am always on the lookout for inspiring entrepreneurs who have leveraged their passions into healthy livelihoods as they serve as instructive role models for my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students. Powell: To experiment, I needed about 10 molds. After speaking with Mr. Powell, it was clear he fit the bill.

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Mentor Pacific Palisades Startup Class 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

I recently wrote about the three rules of sales. The first of question is about qualifying your potential customers aka leads. You can read more about this if you click the link above. Assume competition and assume within the buying organization you have enemies. Why Buy Anything ? Why Buy Me? Why Buy Now? “Listen.

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