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. When you began your teaching career, did you plan on eventually being an entrepreneur? free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Yet, the ways that enterprises and businesses are monetizing that user interaction is sort of archaic, compared to the evolution of the technology. So when I say stay at the Marriott Del Mar, our technology turns that into a link that points to one of those travel partners, based on some proprietary algorithms.

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San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

We created Superfriends, a group of local entrepreneurs that will gather to share ideas and help each other grow personally and professionally. As a board member of the Technology Council of Southern California (now an official sponsor of the event), I first reached out to my fellow board members.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 8, 2018

Steven Johnson, author of How We Got To Now , analyzes technological breakthroughs, looking for patterns that allow entrepreneurs to identify “How We’ll Get To Tomorrow.” Modern-day entrepreneurs use Evernote, Google Keep, etc. Seth is a design-oriented entrepreneur, with little desire to document details.

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Ideas Startup Technical Review Santa Barbara 69

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

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. One such theme was “water conservation” and we morphed it into a broader theme of agriculture technology or “ag tech” for short. Apeel Technologies.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2010

billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 After DoubleClick, Kevin eventually settled down in Santa Barbara, which is where his newest startup-- FindTheBest.com (www.findthebest.com) is headquartered. Kevin O'Connor: We're building on the technology, and we've got some really cool stuff coming.

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Startup Advertising Examples Santa Barbara 210

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

For starters, as Josh Kopelman outlined in this excellent post on their Dorm Room Fund , many great innovations including Microsoft, Google & Facebook started in a dorm room. Or the huge dividends that Santa Barbara got from building GoToMeeting that sold for a nice price to Citrix. I thought it was an amazing idea.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Leading advertising networks like Commission Junction, LinkShare, Google Affiliate Network, ShareASale and many others license our platform to help their advertisers and publishers easily create, manage, track, and optimize call-based advertising campaigns.”. 7) You spent nearly 12-months defining your next adVenture after you left CallWave.

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. We're using technology to scale, and use it to be super-efficient, but we're also never going to be entirely hands-off. The second part, is our matching technology.

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2009

We've opened an office in Los Angeles, and continue to maintain one in Santa Barbara. We're looking for extraordinary entrepreneurs, who are willing to take the risk--even in this environment--and try to change the technology world. If you're that entrepreneur that is funded, that's an advantage.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. The new fund is focused entirely on technology companies. That was quite a prominent exit for us.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. Entrepreneurs should realize that VCs’ decisions often involve factors that have nothing to do with their startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). But I’m sure he’ll never remember your company when Google buys you for $500 million and he’s still eating Ramen – right?

Startup 318

Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Santa Barbara-based SendMeHome (www.sendmehome.com) is looking to solve that problem, with a free service to print out labels which attach to your item, and where you can register items in case they are lost. After my degree, I traveled for a year, and stopped by Santa Barbara, where we are based.

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Santa Barbara Startup Writing Ideas 100

socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2009

Earlier this month, Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue (www.ringrevenue.com) announced that it had raised a round of venture funding. We caught up with the firm's CEO, Jason Spievak, to learn more about the firm's technology, as well as to hear about the company's experienced team, which came out of Callwave. READ MORE>>.

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Advertising Networking Santa Barbara Startup 113

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. The firm's founders are all experienced entrepreneurs, and come from Callwave, CrystalVoice, and Ideocore. For readers who haven't heard of Cogi, can you explain what your service does?

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Santa Barbara Startup Software Review Technical Review 100

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

If this gentleman was such a pivotal player in the early days of the PC revolution, why is he essentially unknown to most entrepreneurs under forty years old? Pioneered nonlinear playback and search capabilities, commonly used in DVD technology. We did not ask them to accept our Santa Barbara, casual startup view of the world.

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