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How This Startup Kicked Oracle’s A$$

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You can watch Marten tell his entertaining story in the following 15-minute excerpt from his UC Santa Barbara talk. We went back to all the VCs and said, 'We have good news and bad news. The bad news, we've been sued in the US. Marten learned the news late on a Friday, "I was thinking, 'This business is over.'

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Top Ten infoChachkie Entries Of 2011

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times and my email newsletter subscribers more than doubled. Hacker News and LinkedIn gave it some love. I will also increase the amount of video content, including snippets from talks given by my UC Santa Barbara classroom guest speakers. If you have not already signed up to my email newsletter, you can do so HERE.

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Entrepreneur Hack: This Remote Team Of 12 Generated $100M

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The bottom line is that the TaxJar team is happy - and because we're happy, we're incredibly productive.”. “We Dan shared his entrepreneurial insights with my UC Santa Barbara students, including the manner in which he built a virtual organization. Image credit: John Zich/Bloomberg News. Share and Enjoy.

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Making the Internet Smarter at Helping Us

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We all now visit UGC sites to learn about products & services before we use them. Whenever I’m trying out new restaurants I always feel compelled to check Zagat & Yelp and then STILL email friends to ask their POV on my top 3-4 choices. Food is no different. She’s the GRP food ninja. And there you have it.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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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. He grabbed all the user email addresses I had collected and started talking to potential customers to find out what they wanted to do.

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

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In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. They respond to email. Conviction. Empowerment.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

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He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. If you believe that you have a great idea that has a potential to sell and you need help in product development, we are here for your help. Community Sponsors. mt) Media Temple, Inc.