InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2016

Per the show’s Mark Cuban, “Anybody with an idea can see how the business process works, see that these are normal people, and there's nothing magical about coming up with an idea.” A number of my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students initially model their investment pitches on the show's contrived format.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. an email) to about 35 people. If you want to be kept informed just send me an email and let me know that you''re in, and that was it.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. an email) to about 35 people. If you want to be kept informed just send me an email and let me know that you''re in, and that was it.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 13, 2009

The seven minute piece went on to showcase many of our accomplishments as a company, including the awarding of Services Company of the Year in 2006 by the Tech Council of Southern California and our back to back wins of “Best of Computer Repair&# in Santa Barbara, voted on by readers of the Independent. I shared a few.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2013

You can watch Sarah tell her compelling story in the following 15-minute excerpt from her recent UC Santa Barbara talk. During her tenure, "A director came into our offices and pitched us a web-series idea. Note: I am indirectly a micro-investor in Big Frame through Rincon Venture Partners sponsorship of Launchpad LA.

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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. Mark Cromack: First and foremost, the concept behind Cogi is brought out in its name, which is short for cogent idea. How's the company funded and backed?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

They get together with a few buddies, bounce around ideas, build some code (sometimes internally, sometimes through contractors), start talking to potential angel investors and then register their company. Their memory – the idea was theirs in the first place and you ran with it and didn’t include them.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas. He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. Absurdly fast and easy online meetings- free for everybody!

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

Greathouse : Let''s start with a question that will be especially helpful for my UC Santa Barbara students. Travel, and the trust it requires, is too personal to rely solely on email and social media. I reached out to the company and Mr. Kutay graciously shared his multi-decade entrepreneurial journey with me.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas. He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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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. Many people go back with lots of new ideas, experience, and energy. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

When I published This Remote Working Experiment Failed And Succeeded on the Wall Street Journal last year, I had no idea it would generate so much social media attention. Dan shared his entrepreneurial insights with my UC Santa Barbara students, including the manner in which he built a virtual organization. FastSpring.

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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 a lot more intricacy going into those algorithms and how the preferences work, but that's the general idea. We caught up with Skyler to hear about HeyTutor, which already has 25 employees and is growing rapidly.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

For our readers who haven't yet heard of your company, what's the idea behind StarGreetz? What we really did, is we took ideas that have been floating around for years, innovated, but definitely took ideas that have been around and made them better, made them easier, provided better distribution, and a better quality product.

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