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I even plan to use it in my upcoming UC SantaBarbara Entrepreneurial Selling class. Guy, how would your 2004 book, Art Of The Start , differ, if you were writing it today? If I were writing the book today, there would be a whole chapter or two…about how to use Facebook and Twitter. That doesn’t work.”.
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times and my email newsletter subscribers more than doubled. For instance, I was recently asked by Inc.com to write a weekly column. I will also increase the amount of video content, including snippets from talks given by my UC SantaBarbara classroom guest speakers. Multimedia And Syndication.
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I just got off the phone with someone who wanted my help getting networked into the SantaBarbara business community. During our email exchange before our call, I had to ask him what he wanted to talk about. If that were the case, I would not be writing this entry, as I realize young people are learning “on the job.”
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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 SantaBarbara. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2.
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