Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And they need it because nobody senior at Stripe, Discord, Coinbase or for that matter Facebook, Google or Snap is leaving without a ton of incentives to do so. We can’t wait for customers to use the product for 12–18 months and do customer interviews or look at purchase cohorts. (HP Style) are dead. just to name a few!

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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. From day one we focused on customers. Since then we’ve iterated on trying to provide our customers what they wanted next.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

He will use it to get answers to questions on Wolfram Alpha or just by Googling it. Santa Barbara schools just approved a $700,000 purchase of iPads for its students. Creator of mind blowing customer experiences. While it may be games he loves today, one day he will learn to watch TED or Khan Academy videos on it.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

Dan is now CEO of Mobile1st , makers of Mobilizer, the mobile customer experience optimization platform. He then joined Picasa and was instrumental in its acquisition by Google. Dan shared his entrepreneurial insights with my UC Santa Barbara students, including the manner in which he built a virtual organization.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2016

Papers that resulted in an “A” grade earned him $20, “B” papers cost his customers $10. The most enterprising aspect of King’s business model was his promise to pay his customers $20 for any paper that didn’t earn at least a C grade. However, we rewarded their performance by sharing the revenue we collected from our customers.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

In many ways, the culture Kildall established was a precursor to the egalitarian, laid-back environments made more famous by Apple, Yahoo and Google before they became Big Dumb Companies. We did not ask them to accept our Santa Barbara, casual startup view of the world. a coat, tie and socks).

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. Now we're in over 100 cities and have over 10,000 clients, 10,000 tutors, and a platform which is working very efficiently, and gives the customer what they want. In this industry, customer acquisition costs are super high.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

That's based on insights into the customer and product, so that we can build relevant, optimized, geotargeted, and customized ads that will engage consumers. They're a local team out of Santa Barbara. Thse are customers that spend a lot on search, and we're enabling significant performance upside for them.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

From TweetDeck to Yammer, WordPress to Twitter, Google Adwords to Yahoo Search, Facebook to LinkedIn, throw in a little AllTop, MyYahoo, Outlook, Powerpoint, Quicken (had to pay some bills)…my head is spinning. I think our customers will appreciate it. It’s been an interesting week to say the least.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

From TweetDeck to Yammer, WordPress to Twitter, Google Adwords to Yahoo Search, Facebook to LinkedIn, throw in a little AllTop, MyYahoo, Outlook, Powerpoint, Quicken (had to pay some bills)…my head is spinning. I think our customers will appreciate it. It’s been an interesting week to say the least.

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Technical Review Santa Barbara Blogging Yammer 100

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. We spend a lot of time listening to our customers and working with them to build the right solutions.

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

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. The difference is that VoiceXML does not leverage customers' knowledge of web development.

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2009

We've opened an office in Los Angeles, and continue to maintain one in Santa Barbara. You don't even have to have the dog, you could be as early as--I have this idea, or I need to finish my prototype, or need to commercialize or get my first couple of customers. He's in Santa Barbara. It's really great.

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2009

Earlier this month, Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue (www.ringrevenue.com) announced that it had raised a round of venture funding. That affiliate passes that to the advertiser, and minutes or hours later will call the potential customer back at their phone number. Explain your technology? call centers every year.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Cogi (www.cogi.com) recently launched a phone-based service which allows users to transcribe conference calls and meetings. And, we have our own custom signal processing technology that increases the efficiency of all those existing systems that I've just described. How's the company funded and backed?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

But I’m sure he’ll never remember your company when Google buys you for $500 million and he’s still eating Ramen – right? When you’re doing biz dev deals or customer deals you need to start with a list of the things that you think could go wrong or that you want to protect against. And Brad Feld.

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