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Mindflash.com Takes On Online Training

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Santa Barbara-based Mindflash.com , an online training platform site headed by former Mint.com Chief Marketing Officer Donna Wells, said this week that it has officially launched its online trianing platform. The firm says it is targeting small businesses, and offers a way to help those businesses provide employee training.

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Better Business Bureau? For who?

Eric Greenspan

I’ve remained a skeptic about the BBB and as a result of an email I received a couple of weeks ago from them, I have raised the skepticism threat level. So here’s the email I received: Eric, My name is Chad Ratliffe emailing from the Better Business Bureau. First Data of Santa Barbara. Shocking, right?

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With Greathouse Comes Great Responsibility

InfoChachkie

The following guest post is from some of my former UC Santa Barbara students. Design together, the course that introduced the idea for brightblu, they were concurrently taking three other classes: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Art of the CEO. Fall quarter of Sr. Fall quarter of Sr. Along with taking Sr.

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Brian Coryat, ValueClick Founder And Internet Pioneer: Startups Should Wing It

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Brian Coryat, Founder and CEO of Local Market Launch and former Founder and CEO of ValueClick (NASDAQ: VCLK) recently winged his talk at UC Santa Barbara''s Distinguished Lecture Series. I think I''ll just wing it'' and of course. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. And I said, ''I don''t know.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2.

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Web 1.0 Entrepreneurs: we are roadkill unless we learn to run as fast as today’s founders.

Steve Reich

Oh, and did I mention that their users have mapped 35,000 courses in 127 countries? inLife signed up dozens of merchants in Santa Barbara for their activity site. One of the founders wrote a Python script that sent out custom emails to a list they had developed. Of course not. No wonder they just raised $1mm.

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Startup CEOs Lessons From Ben Affleck

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I recently had a chance to observe an intimate conversation between Leonard Maltin and Ben Affleck at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, where Mr. Affleck was honored with the festival's "Modern Master" award. 120-Minutes With Mr. Affleck. I promise I will never tweet about movies or that killer burrito I just ate. . Share and Enjoy.

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