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

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When you can live where you want to live and make money doing what you love to do, you are, by my definition, a screaming success. Six outstanding entrepreneurs have created this sweet flavor of success in one of the most beautiful places on earth – Santa Barbara, California. From Lynda.com ’s recent $1.5

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CALIENT Wins Ultra 4K Network Deal

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Santa Barbara-based optical switch developer CALIENT Technoloogies reported a win today, with remote broadcast production company CP Communications. Calient said it has been selected to supply equipment to connect to a new, fiber-optic network supporting 4K ultra high definition television.

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Kevin O'Connor, ScOp Venture Capital, On Startup Success and Investments

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Kevin sold his last company, Santa Barbara-based Graphiq, in July of 2017 to Amazon, but has a long history of successful companies, including founding DoubleClick. We're looking for companies that have already brought a product to market, with $500,000 to a million dollars in revenues in ARR. Kevin O'Connor: Definitely.

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Citrix Buys Netviewer

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Santa Barbara-based Citrix Online said this morning that it is in a definitive agreement to acquired Netviewer AG , a developer of software-as-a-service tools for business collaboration. The company said Netviewer has more than 18,000 customers using its products. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

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By definition?—?I’m We back very early stage companies and work alongside executive teams as their build their teams, launch their products, announce their companies and raise their first downstream capital rounds. The market definition has changed but what we do mostly hasn’t. Are we in a bubble?” just to name a few!

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D2 Technologies Upgrades VoIP Software

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Santa Barbara-based D2 Technologies, which develops embedded software for the voice-over-IP market, said this week at CES that it has upgraded the firm's flagship vPort product line. The firm said the 2.0 The firm said the 2.0

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Competition Is A Lie – Tracy DiNunzio Explains Why

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Tracy''s frank, pragmatic and somewhat controversial comments were presented as part of UC Santa Barbara''s Distinguished Lecture Series. At that time, a typically inferior Microsoft remote access product(NetMeeting), was bundled with every copy of Microsoft Office. The only thing you have as an entrepreneur. is (limited) time.