Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2014 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. 28 from 7pm-10pm in Santa Monica. We will have a line up of amazing panelist who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2014. He began his career as a media, entertainment and IP attorney.

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Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

Greathouse : Let''s start with a question that will be especially helpful for my UC Santa Barbara students. If you could share one startup lesson with a young entrepreneur, what would it be? So I ask prospective new entrepreneurs, ''What is it specifically that you can bring to the industry?''

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Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Resource 187

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The factors which led to the formation of the Dead''s culture offer a number of lessons entrepreneurs can apply to their ventures. Yes, the band also created an entertaining catalog of classic Americana music. At a startup, a shared worldview and vision are the cornerstones of an effective strategic plan. Image: Wikipedia.

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Startup Santa Barbara Organization Class 214

InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Article first published as Steve Blank Discusses Origin And Future Of Lean Startup Movement on Technorati. I recently spoke with Steve Blank, author of the new book The Startup Owner’s Manual. Steve is also a Stanford Professor and noted marketing entrepreneur. Startup Business Plans Are Oxymoronic.

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Startup Class Press Custom Development 229

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Other installments include: Words of startup wisdom from Jeff Bezos. People should not try to emulate him, because they will be setting themselves up for failure. He overheard me talking about Steve Jobs in conjunction with the entrepreneurship class that I teach at UC Santa Barbara. Steve’s Startup Tips.

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Tips Startup Santa Barbara Entrepreneur 279

InfoChachkie

MARCH 6, 2018

One of my former students, Sieva Kozinsky, Co-Founder & CEO of StudySoup recently shared his startup insights with my UC Santa Barbara students. However, the one that stood out to me was the importance of curating their peer groups in advance of graduating and starting an entrepreneurial career. My Junto Groups.

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Santa Barbara Ideas Entertainment Education 113

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

I wrote a blog post on how to work with lawyers at a startup nearly two-and-a-half years ago. If you don’t have much experience in working with law firms at a startup it’s a good primer. In that post I talked about how to select a law-firm for a startup. Startup-focused. It was very widely read.

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Venture Capital Startup Los Angeles GRP Partners 299

Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2017

A Silicon Valley entrepreneur has set out to boost the startup ecosystem in San Diego and the rest of Southern California—and he already has scored a coup by partnering with Bill Maris, the founder and former CEO of Google Ventures, now known as GV.

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Southern California San Diego Startup Google 96

InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

Although many are entertaining, most fail to provide entrepreneurs with a sufficient return on their time investment. If you are a leader at a startup and you are reading a business book, you are not closing customers, raising capital, improving your product, or spending time with your loved ones. Fan, Not A Fan Boy.

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Technical Review Blogging Class Entrepreneur 279

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 18, 2014

Bill Grundfest, Founder of the Comedy Cellar, Golden Globe winner and three time Emmy nominee, recently spoke to an audience of entrepreneurial students as part of UC Santa Barbara''s Distinguished Lecture Series. Like all street-smart entrepreneurs, Bill realized that he needed to solve a problem in order to succeed.

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Startup Ideas Class Santa Barbara 187

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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Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

If you’re funding the same stuff as everybody else and if you started your activities when the clues were obvious you’re much less likely to drive enormous returns. As is often said if you don’t get at least a few fellow VCs (and entrepreneurs) scratching their heads you may not be funding ideas with enough upside.

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Funding Technical Review Ideas Startup 362

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Acrobatic ninjas, the Austin Police and several livid tradeshow executives – a perfect recipe for a reality television show, but not a great combination for Seth Epstein’s startup, Social Stay. I suggest you check out both the video and Seth’s entertaining depiction below. What’s up with that?”

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Marketing Conference Startup Santa Barbara 230

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mike has over 18 years of business development, marketing and management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. Mike continues to be actively involved with early-stage start-ups as an investor, advisor and board member.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 1, 2011

In Everything (Including Startups) Is A Remix , I discuss the brilliant series of films created by Kirby Ferguson, which focus on the origin of creativity in music, film and business. His tenacity and persistence are instructive to emerging entrepreneurs. You can get in there and start…and do worthwhile things.

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Ideas Santa Barbara Entertainment Conference 203