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Yardi, RealPage Settle Patent Litigation

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Santa Barbara-based Yardi , the developer of real estate and property management software, looks to have scored a win in a patent lawsuit against RealPage , a developer of cloud-based software for the rental housing industry. READ MORE>>.

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RightSignature, Customer Sued By RPost

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Santa Barbara-based RightSignature , the provider of electronic signature services, as well as one of its customers--Farmers Insurance--has just been sued by competing electronic signature service RPost. RightSignature announced the addition of Farmer's Insurance as a customer in May of last year.

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Five Startup Tips From Bill Gates

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In Mark Suster’s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara , he advised his audience of entrepreneurial students to master two skills: selling and coding. Along with your cash, customers and employees, a healthy startup culture will prove to be one of your most precious assets. . " [Tweet this quote]. Treasure it. Banana IP. "Intellectual

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Fixing Tech’s Gender Problem Starts With Company Culture

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One of these bright lights is Santa Barbara-based HG Data - developers of the world's largest competitive-intelligence database. <Note: Our customers are some of the world's largest, most diverse organizations on the planet, such as IBM, HP and Dell.

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How PolarPro's Photo Filters Are Riding The GoPro Wave

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Jeff Overall: It all started back in 2011, when I was going to the University of Santa Barbara. You can customize it for what you are doing exactly, whether that''s scuba diving, skiing, or jumping off a cliff, or doing a bunch of crazy stuff. What''s the story behind the company? What are you guys working on now?

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Interview with Eric Frankel, StarGreetz

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It literally lets them talk to their customers in a never-before way, on a one-on-one basis. Based on those three inspirations, I wanted to build a company that allows brands and celebrities to speak to their customer in a unique manner. For our readers who haven't yet heard of your company, what's the idea behind StarGreetz?

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Interview with Mike Hopkins, ICE Energy

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Santa Barbara-based Ice Energy (www.ice-energy.com) has quietly been working away at developing energy storage systems to help smooth out the demand for energy on the nation's power grid. We have thirteen patents associated with the Ice bear. Our customer is not the building owner or tenant, it's the utility.