socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Santa Barbara-based QAD said this morning that its QAD Automation Solutions software has received Honda "Approved Software" status. QAD says its software now meets those standards.

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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. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Organic Academia.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Ice Energy , the developer of energy storage devices which use ice to offload electric grids of peak loads, said Wednesday that it has launched a new, bundled solution which combines both its energy storage and photovoltaic solar energy. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 12, 2010

A group of businesses and local organizations in Goleta, California, north of Santa Barbara, are looking to rally more businesses to join in their effort to spur new, direct flight support to San Jose, California, after a loss of the service in February.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Santa Barbara-based energy storage developer Ice Energy said late Thursday that it has been awarded sixteen contracts from Southern California Edison, providing 25.6 megawatts of energy storage. Size of those contracts were not announced by the company. Ice Energy is backed by SAIL Venture Partners. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2018

Santa Barbara-based energy storage startup Ice Energy has an almost-too-good-to-pass-up offer for businesses in Orange County, as part of a recent energy storage contract the company won with Southern California Edison (SCE): a free, HVAC replacement and energy storage system. The company recently won a 25.6

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest , the products review startup headed by former DoubleClick founder Kevin O''Connor, has a new mission in life: fight patent trolls. FindTheBest has launched a major lawsuit in New York, looking to take down a "patent troll" which had demanded that the startup pay the company for violating a patent.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2015

Santa Barbara-based energy storage technology developer Ice Energy announced today that it is opening up a new, research and development center in Riverside, with plans to immediately hire 12 at the location. That device helps utilities better manage demand on the grid, without affecting customers' ability to cool their buildings.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 12, 2014

Benedikt Scholz is an exceptional student whom I had the pleasure of instructing when he recently studied at UC Santa Barbara. Before arriving in Santa Barbara, he had already launched his first startup, Rooming , which helps college students manage their living accommodations while studying abroad or interning.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2011

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , the developer of cloud computing management software, said Wednesday that it has opened up a new office in Beijing, China. Eucalyptus said it opened the new office due to a "sharp increase in demand" from organizations in Asia for its software over the past year. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Daryl Bernstein , RightSignature (Santa Barbara, software). James Borow and Clark Landry (shared position), SHIFT (Los Angeles, Santa Monica, advertising). Holden Steinberg , Pagewoo (Santa Monica, advertising). Thorsten von Eicken , Rightscale (Santa Barbara, cloud computing).

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Demand Media. Demand Media consistently popped up near number one in the list of "companies to work for" from our readers. range of software products, and which has offices in Calabasas and Santa Barbara. (Readers in San Diego, Orange County, Ventura County, and elsewhere, please comment or send us your comments!).

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

The full list follows: 13 EdgeCast Networks 21406% Santa Monica Alex Kazerani 15 Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 18798% San Diego Pedro Lichtinger 22 Phone Power 7642% Winnetka Ari Ramezani 23 TeleSign Corporation Software 7534% Marina del Rey Steve Jillings 26 FastSpring 6742% Santa Barbara Dan Engel 30 Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 18, 2019

By December, 1969, there were only four nodes – UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, the University of California-Santa Barbara and the University of Utah. Sadly, the internet is far more complicated to access than that.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 1, 2013

You can watch Marten tell his entertaining story in the following 15-minute excerpt from his UC Santa Barbara talk. According to Marten, it was a demoralizing blow that would have spooked the investors, if MySQL had acquiesced to the US company's demands. Note: I am a micro-Angel investor in Eucalyptus.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2016

Thus, I was honored when he agreed to share his insights regarding the fundamentals of success with my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students. Demand Customer Centricity. Without compromise, they apply all of their efforts to the organization’s success and they demand a similar level of dedication from their key team members.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

I consistently remind my UC Santa Barbara startup students that for most people, money is not a sustaining motivator. Dealing with their precocious students and demanding parents can cause a single day to be filled with poignant highs and unnerving lows. A version of this article previously appeared in the Wall Street Journal.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

venture funding and business deals, technology develops, and more from Santa Barbara. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. socalTECH.com offers up continuous coverage of Southern California's growing high. tech economy, with interview with the movers and shakers in the industry, coverage of. to San Diego.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2015

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. The reason they do that, is we solve the peak demand problem they have on the grid. megawatts of energy. Both are very expensive.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Through the use of social networking, we have sold out all 150 spots available for this event two weeks before the date and recently added another 50 to accommodate the demand. Tags: Eric Greenspan 140conf Google Voice jeff pulver santa barbara social media tech news Twitter. We are expecting a full house!

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara. Because of the higher demand there, and because there were not a whole lot of providers, plus our good connections in Japan, we started there.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. There's lots of noise in the on-demand tutoring space, especially connecting people virtually, however, in my experience, it's in the best interest of consumers to get in-person, local tutoring. What is HeyTutor?

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

The funding, provided by Santa Barbara, CA-based Rincon Venture Partners and Venice, CA-based CrossCut Ventures, represents the first institutional investment for Zingle. Blakely said he also intends to add sales and marketing resources to take advantage of increasing demand from businesses for Zingle’s messaging technology.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Eucalyptus’ underlying technology was developed at UC Santa Barbara. Although it can be challenging to meet the demands of an open source business model, the benefits are also tremendous, especially in the area of partnerships. As Marten points out, “Many software partners integrate with our product without even telling us.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

I ended up really relating to the nuance and intricacies of product supply and customer demand. As a UC Santa Barbara alum, do you have any advice for my UCSB students who desire to break into the fashion industry? I was fortunate to acquire my first job with Robinsons-May in 1989.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 9, 2016

I encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to launch mini-ventures while in school so they will begin to see the opportunities that surround them. Rather than shutting down shop, the student simply moved his operation down the hall and continued to satisfy the brisk student demand for the consolidated notes.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 7, 2016

I encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to launch mini-ventures while in school so they will begin to see the opportunities that surround them. Rather than shutting down shop, the student simply moved his operation down the hall and continued to satisfy the brisk student demand for the consolidated notes.

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Startup Ideas Santa Barbara Entrepreneur 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

Our employees come from Caltech, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, and we've employed people as far away as the University of Michigan. They are very few and far between, partially because the demand is not out there. So those resources have been fantastic. is dwindling, and consolidating, as companies are being bought up.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

At the Twiistup panel last week, there was a debate over whether big companies could be created here, which is ridiculous--Demand Media is the latest example there, we've got Cornerstone OnDemand coming out soon, and there is no question there are market leading, large revenue companies coming out of Southern California.

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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. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles!

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

They're a local team out of Santa Barbara. We want to scale out our platforms to meet marketer demand, and build our platform to scale. Rincon Ventures is our lead investor, with John Andelman and John Greathouse. IA Ventures is a New York firm that has a deep domain expertise in big data. How far are you from getting to market?

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Yahoo Platform Advertising Startup 171

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Suffice it to say it will drive much demand including from a very close family member of mine who always travels with an EpiPen. The company has an R&D pipeline of similar food allergy areas it will address. I don’t know how much they talk publicly about their pipeline so I better leave it there. Apeel Technologies.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Performance marketing also demands accountability. 2) A handful of uniformed people from the Bay Area and beyond still believe that you cannot build a world-class tech company in Santa Barbara, despite our numerous successes over the past 15-years. In reality, they want to buy customers, not ads.

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2012

Wade Eyerly: We will also have a couple of recreational runs, to Santa Barbara and Monterey. We don't peak and valley with demand. I've never been around anything like that, and I feel incredible lucky to be part of that. So your first route is going to be Los Angeles to Palo Alto? How do you handle those issues?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

On Demand). Babak received a BA degree in Business Economics and Communications from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Successfully negotiated ground breaking deals with several of the major media companies whose content became the basis for many of these products. More panelist to be announced soon. Want To Sponsor?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

I was on vacation in Santa Barbara two years ago with my wife and I was reflecting on what I had learned in my first year in LA and in VC. Here’s an example where good behavior leads to higher results. I founded a mentorship group called Launchpad LA. It didn’t come out of nowhere.

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