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Success, Santa Barbara Style: Patagonian Sexwax With A Side Order of UGGS

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Six outstanding entrepreneurs have created this sweet flavor of success in one of the most beautiful places on earth – Santa Barbara, California. Santa Barbara has become a high-tech startup mecca, rivaling cities many times its size. From Lynda.com ’s recent $1.5 In 1995, Deckers purchased the UGGS brand for $16 million.

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FastSpring Expands To Ireland, Names New VP

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Santa Barbara-based FastSpring, which develops e-commerce software used by software-as-a-service companies to manage sales and VAT taxes, prevent fraud, and more, says it has opened up new operations in Belfast, Ireland.

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TrackStreet Takes $5.1M For Brand Protection

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Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet , a developer of brand protection software, has raised $5.1M The company says it already has customers such Domestic, Mercury Marine, Smuckers, The Weyco Group, and Zeiss. in a funding round. The founder and CEO of TrackStreet is Andrew Schydlowsky.

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Interview with Elizabeth Cholawsky, HG Data

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For this morning's interview, we caught up with Elizabeth Cholawsky , the new CEO of Santa Barbara-based HG Data (www.hgdata.com), which develops software which helps marketers and salespeople understand the "technology stack" of their potential customers and prospects. We sell directly to big enterprises, like IBM and Cisco.

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Why Taking Some Risks in the Sales Process Can Improve Results

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Many people are too cautious in sales processes and as a result when they present their solutions they end up sounding milquetoast and undifferentiated from anybody else in the market. I recently wrote about the three rules of sales. The first of question is about qualifying your potential customers aka leads. Why Buy Me?

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Non-millennial Bootstrapping – These 50-Something Entrepreneurs Rejected VC $ And Nailed It

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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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The Changing Venture Landscape

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Our fund (Upfront Ventures) recently returned >1x an entire $200 million fund just selling small minatory in secondary sales while still holding most of our stock for an ultimate public market exits. We can’t wait for customers to use the product for 12–18 months and do customer interviews or look at purchase cohorts.