Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Their tactic is to first incent a merchant by sharing data on how many hits their website gets from people inquiring about their particular type of business. How they knew anything about us is beyond me, but that is where we got started. First Data of Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, CA 93108. I had no choice.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. Our Director of Flow, Heather Burlesci will be attending these courses as she is looking to build up her skills in this area. Jeff was tweeting about needing help organizing and promoting the upcoming #140conf LA Meetup. I of course agreed to get involved.

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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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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. Curious to learn more about the pain and joys of bootstrapping a business, I sat down with Jim Semick, the company’s Co-Founder and Chief Strategist. Semick: They are.

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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. But the more I started to think about it, I said, well, why the hell not? Share and Enjoy.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. We raised $280 million. Who gave you the money? 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. I’ve been thinking a lot about this over the past two years and bending the ears of any entrepreneur who will humor me to hear what I think the solution needs to look like. .&# I was thinking about the St. Why can’t I have it?

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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. I think part of the answer is the product's strength, and the investment we've made in building our online library of courses. There are many opportunities for us.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

So with the wild ride of 2013 I had thoughts about what made me thankful this year. Of course I thank the whole team but hard not to call out Courtney specifically. 2013 was the year of wearable devices and physical products. I’m sure in 2-3 years all of these trends will be reversed.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

You can build a meaningful company just about wherever these days. 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). Of course if it’s a company on fire I would travel to any 2-hop city from LA.

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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. My courses are rigorous and demanding. I am likewise pleased that my courses have not been rated "easy," earning an overall 2.9 A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Citrix's CEO, Mark Templeton, recently shared his insights regarding achieving personal and professional success as part of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series. Mark knows a bit about success and what it takes to reach the top of one's industry. You have to be realistic about who you are. It's a strategy.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 10, 2011

In the course of my recent interview with Guy Kawasaki , author and former Apple Evangelist, Guy describes Steve Jobs as: “… the world’s greatest CEO, ever. He overheard me talking about Steve Jobs in conjunction with the entrepreneurship class that I teach at UC Santa Barbara. Big Dumb Companies Are Often Just That. “So

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 7, 2013

Over the course of 2004 and 2005, we actually merged Be Free and Commission Junction together. . So it was about in the 2004 timeframe that I made my first trip to Santa Barbara. had a very different philosophy about affiliate marketing than Be Free. it's not so much about communication. Commission Junction.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 11, 2013

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. I promise I will never tweet about movies or that killer burrito I just ate. . 120-Minutes With Mr. Affleck.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

We talked with him on why he decided to head up this startup, and what 15desks is all about. Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work. It's started with managing courses and grades, on to a whole array of other services.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 1, 2011

I began our discussion by asking Kirby about the genesis of Everything Is A Remix. "It I thought I could illustrate how it’s hypocritical to think that you own these things and can litigate about it. A lot of these new laws are about technology. They are all heading to about a million views each. "Partially, yea.

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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. "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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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Today I’d like to talk about what startup communities outside of Silicon Valley look like, how they emerge and what makes them take hold. Most of what I think about startup communities came from mentorship by Brad Feld through hours of private discussion and debate. Think Fred Wilson, Tony Hsieh or Brad Feld. Think again.

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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 16, 2012

No matter how much you think you know about Steve’s lean startup philosophy, Eric Ries’ contributions to the movement, or the methodologies by which companies have put lean startup tenets into practice, I am confident you will be enlightened and entertained by Steve’s frank and insightful remarks. . That was the implicit statement.

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Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

Oh, and did I mention that their users have mapped 35,000 courses in 127 countries? You can go to virtually any city in the world and meet a local who will tell you about their city. inLife signed up dozens of merchants in Santa Barbara for their activity site. Of course not. No wonder they just raised $1mm.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

As individuals we have choices about how we spend our time. I have always been good at prioritizing what is important but bad about starting my work early enough. There is something about the adrenaline rush of being under time pressure that excites us and teases out our creativity. Internally I was a wreck.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

We spoke with Alex Schneider, who is managing the effort, about what the incubator is and what it hopes to accomplish. Tell us about the incubator--how long as it been around? It's about 10,000 square feet of space in downtown Ventura, in a city owned office building. 3M went into DFJ Frontier's fund II, which is a $55M fund.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

Ever fantasized about climbing Mt. How about hiking in Patagonia without carrying a 60-pound backpack and eating freeze dried food? Kurt and his crew can make these, and about 35 of other once-in-a-lifetime treks, a reality. Kutay: "Of course, it can be argued that authenticity is an unattainable goal in travel.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 31, 2014

Thus, I was honored when Bob agreed to share his insights regarding mentorship with my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students. And of course, the rest is musical history.". I''ll never tweet about figure skating or that killer burrito I am about to devour - just startup stuff. You''re selling out! What is this?’

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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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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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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 14, 2011

Rushing to a goldfield and casting about with picks and shovels, hoping one might “strike it rich” is not entrepreneurial. To this end, neither my wife nor I knew anyone when we moved to Santa Barbara in 1993. A gold rush is essentially an adult treasure hunt. They sought a different type of treasure. from the Wharton School.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 14, 2011

Rushing to a goldfield and casting about with picks and shovels, hoping one might “strike it rich” is not entrepreneurial. To this end, neither my wife nor I knew anyone when we moved to Santa Barbara in 1993. A gold rush is essentially an adult treasure hunt. They sought a different type of treasure. from the Wharton School.

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Guide Santa Barbara Entrepreneur Course 145

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Instead, grab your surfboard and head to UC Santa Barbara. Although UCSB has room to grow with regard to the total number of VC-backed startups it generates, the Santa Barbara region fares well when its relative size is taken into account. Image Credit: University Of California, Santa Barbara. Am I biased?

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Eric Greenspan

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Of course, I will bring my passion for “Mind Blowing Customer Experiences” to the business. The Macaw Coffee factory in Santa Barbara, Honduras. I also manage product development, business development and of course, IT. I of course grabbed a few and enjoyed them. My official title is Presidente.

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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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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. Find A Concept You Are Passionate About. Mark framed his comments around the major mistakes he made during his early ventures.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

I’ve learned much about French history as a result. 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. Santa Barbara schools just approved a $700,000 purchase of iPads for its students.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

I’ve learned much about French history as a result. 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. Santa Barbara schools just approved a $700,000 purchase of iPads for its students.

HTML 100

HTML Search Engine Optimization Santa Barbara Education 100

Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

I’ve learned much about French history as a result. 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. Santa Barbara schools just approved a $700,000 purchase of iPads for its students.

HTML 100

HTML Search Engine Optimization Santa Barbara Education 100