Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

I read Les Miserables in French and I’ve seen the theater production over 20 times. I didn’t take a single course on computer programming in school. I now make a living knowing WordPress, CSS, HTML and of course search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing. I’ve learned much about French history as a result.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In my new role as the first executive director for the Alliance for Southern California Innovation, I spent a lot of time outside of my home turf of Pasadena -- visiting innovation nodes such as San Diego, Irvine, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Venice, Santa Monica, and others.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

I read Les Miserables in French and I’ve seen the theater production over 20 times. I didn’t take a single course on computer programming in school. I now make a living knowing WordPress, CSS, HTML and of course search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing. I’ve learned much about French history as a result.

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HTML Search Engine Optimization Santa Barbara Education 100

Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

I read Les Miserables in French and I’ve seen the theater production over 20 times. I didn’t take a single course on computer programming in school. I now make a living knowing WordPress, CSS, HTML and of course search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing. I’ve learned much about French history as a result.

HTML 100

HTML Search Engine Optimization Santa Barbara Education 100

Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

First Data of Santa Barbara has offered to extend below market rates to current accredited businesses like yours – again, just like they did for your BBB. First Data of Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, CA 93108. I then called Rick Copelan of the Santa Barbara BBB and asked him why they do this.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

This was certainly the case when I invested in a small YouTube video production company called Maker Studios that recently sold to Disney for just shy of $1 billion. We look at stage, geography and of course sector. And of course many more of us are gluten intolerant or want to live gluten-reduced lives.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

2013 was the year of wearable devices and physical products. Of course I thank the whole team but hard not to call out Courtney specifically. Meanwhile while social networking was white hot 3 years ago it is now persona non grata unless your user numbers are insane. eCommerce was battered this year.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

In early December of 1818, Jose de la Guerra devised a brilliant plan to thwart the French pirate Hippolyte de Bouchard who was lurking off the coast of Santa Barbara, contemplating an attack. By centering our alliances around our products and not our company, each group was comprised of complimentary partners.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

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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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2013

Eric Robison: We're not going to spend it all right way, of course. That's on top of producing 400 courses this year, which is within our normal operating budget. Eric Robison: What's led to the growth is an amazing product. There are many opportunities for us. International is one of the first areas to focus on.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 11, 2013

These varied responsibilities are analogous to those of a startup CEO, as movie production crews are essentially temporary ventures. 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.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

We all now visit UGC sites to learn about products & services before we use them. And of course I know that some 25 year-olds are thinking that they’d rather stay in somewhere more hip, more alive at night & probably a bit cheaper. A few years ago I planned an outing to Santa Barbara for my Dad’s 70th birthday.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2015

Despite the fact that I teach entrepreneurship at UC Santa Barbara , I do not believe that entrepreneurs are created in classrooms. I treat each of my classes as a product that the students are paying a lot of money to consume. My courses are rigorous and demanding. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

As part of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, serial entrepreneur and noted venture capitalist Mark Suster recently shared his advice with a large crowd of emerging entrepreneurs. But our product wasn’t ready for primetime. Do product meetings yourself. The reality is, most startups do not work.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

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. " [Tweet this quote]. Defining The Questions. "It's Look around.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

By conceptualizing, selling, gathering feedback and then developing a product, startups achieve success more quickly and economically. Large companies write business plans, why of course, that’s the organizing document for a startup. Preaching What You Live. That was the implicit statement. Enter Eric Ries .

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

If you look at what you go through, starting high school, and maybe even middle or grade school, you go through your educational life managing courses, relationships with your teachers, and relationships with your parents. It's started with managing courses and grades, on to a whole array of other services.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

It’s as good as it gets in personal productivity / life reflection. I know that would be surprising to many readers since keeping a blog somehow convinces people that I’m a time management or productivity ninja. That’s why productivity wasn’t tough for me as a CEO. I’m not. So I always performed.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

I review these tenets with my entrepreneurial students at UC Santa Barbara at the beginning of each quarter to reinforce many of the key topics we will cover in the following weeks. If your culture rewards those who seek the truth, your team will be prone to objectively identifying tactical course corrections.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Of course she asked me, I’m the CEO of a leading computer services company. We are currently scheduling a District-wide event in Santa Barbara for all parents of students in elementary and middle schools. Products like Net Nanny and SpectorPro can block or monitor your children’s access to the Internet.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

But of course all of these things are intertwined. In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2010

Citrix promised to operate Expertcity as a separate division and maintain its offices in Santa Barbara and it was unclear if other potential acquirers would have been willing to make, and keep, similar commitments. There is a well-worn adage in the M&A world that, “companies are not sold, they are bought.” Get Out Of The Zone.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

Greathouse : Let''s start with a question that will be especially helpful for my UC Santa Barbara students. I realize WA''s corporate culture strives to provide an authentic travel experience to your customers, but how do you go beyond marketing jive and turn the platitudes into a truly unique product?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. Oh, they didn’t cover that in your Stanford CS course? We’ve had great experiences with Michael Pfau in Santa Barbara. Your memory – they never worked very hard and didn’t want to commit.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

In this post I advocate taking a harder stand on where your product or solution differentiates in the market – even if it means you lose some deals as a result. When we went to raise funds we faced lots of competition as there are of course many other VC funds in the country. I recently wrote about the three rules of sales.

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