socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2019

This morning's interview is with Kevin O'Connor , a longtime investor and serial entrepreneur, who is now running venture capital investment firm ScOp Venture Capital. Kevin sold his last company, Santa Barbara-based Graphiq, in July of 2017 to Amazon, but has a long history of successful companies, including founding DoubleClick.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2016

The reality television show Shark Tank makes for entertaining content but many of its underlying messages are potentially detrimental to tech entrepreneurs. Thus, emerging entrepreneurs should parse fact from fantasy by watching the show with an experienced business pro. It is also an inspirational alter call to entrepreneurship.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

However, to be a great VC you have to hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time. They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea. And the truth is that several entrepreneurs prefer it this way. two founders in a garage?—?(HP

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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 Engel, Co-Founder and former CEO of FastSpring, is a highly successful serial entrepreneur. FastSpring. Image credit: John Zich/Bloomberg News. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

You can hear Don tell his story in the following excerpt from his recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. Don began by explaining that his impoverished childhood drove him to a life as an entrepreneur. ". To give you an idea how poor, our kitchen table had three legs. I had never thought about being an entrepreneur.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 24, 2012

Kim Kovaks, Founder and CEO OptionEase , recently spoke to a class of emerging entrepreneurs at UC Santa Barbara. There are a lot of things that entrepreneurs need to do. You have to stay on focus because, as an entrepreneur, you are going to get ideas coming at you every second. Getting Fired.

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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. Why Should Entrepreneurs Care? Get together with no agenda, other than to have fun, trade some provocative ideas and maybe drink a couple adult beverages.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Tracy DiNunzio, Founder and CEO of Tradesy , recently shared her insights regarding the best approach for entrepreneurs to address competition. Tracy''s frank, pragmatic and somewhat controversial comments were presented as part of UC Santa Barbara''s Distinguished Lecture Series. The only thing you have as an entrepreneur.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 5, 2015

As a Professor of Practice in Entrepreneurship at UC Santa Barbara , students ask me dozens of times each quarter, “What do you think of my idea?” My response is typically, “What I think of your idea is irrelevant. The reality is that what I think about anyone’s nascent idea is totally meaningless.

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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. We''re motivated, passionate, excited, terrified and at many times, have absolutely no idea what we are doing. From 35 To 500 Readers.

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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. 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?'' How have you made it work?

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The following guest post is from some of my former UC Santa Barbara students. Design together, the course that introduced the idea for brightblu, they were concurrently taking three other classes: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Art of the CEO. Fall quarter of Sr. Fall quarter of Sr. Along with taking Sr.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2010

Alger’s works as juvenile rags to riches novels misses the author’s primary point and the reason why the books had such a tremendous impact on several generations of American entrepreneurs. The majority of students fret over the fact that they only have $5 of capital and limited time to launch their money making ideas.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 9, 2019

As a Professor at UC Santa Barbara , I constantly battle Hollywood’s stereotype of the rapacious, maniacal businessperson, by teaching my students that Honesty is a competitive advantage. Michael Bloomberg, American Entrepreneur and Politician. When an entrepreneur selects a venture, the idea should be all consuming.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 20, 2012

As part of the UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, Emmy Award winner Seth Epstein and current Founder and CEO of SocialStay , described seven practical, hands-on techniques entrepreneurs can use to enhance their overall awesomeness. If you are safe, you are not an entrepreneur." Seth agrees.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. The Case Foundation invests in people and ideas that can change the world. Indiegogo has brought more than 800,000 ideas to fruition since 2008. The barriers to entry when it comes to launching a company require less tension and a lot less capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. When the early teams: angels, lowercase capital & first round capital funded Uber they had no idea it would be one of the most revolutionary ideas of our time. Far from it. It was an early and smart bet.

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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. We''re motivated, passionate, excited, terrified and at many times, have absolutely no idea what we are doing. From 35 To 500 Readers.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2020

The logic behind this, is that 80 percent of our bets are founder bets, and we believe we need to use every resource we can to help entrepreneurs be successful in hitting milestones. What drove your decision to focus on mental health and this aspect for entrepreneurs? It's a comprehensive bucket.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

A Santa Barbara based company, Milo Sensors, is tackling this problem via a wearable that constantly alerts your smartphone of your blood alcohol level. We started Milo Sensors over two years ago through the UC Santa Barbara New Venture Competition. As such, none of us had the benefit of your TMP classes (laughs).

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Great Startup Ideas Come From Everywhere. "At "At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I'm afraid that's not quite right." I explore this peculiar entrepreneurial career path in further detail in THIS entry. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 9, 2016

Entrepreneurs see the world like a cash booth from a 1950’s game show. Once you begin seeing the world with the eyes of an entrepreneur, you realize that money-making opportunities are all around you. Once you begin seeing the world with the eyes of an entrepreneur, you realize that money-making opportunities are all around you.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 7, 2016

Entrepreneurs see the world like a cash booth from a 1950’s game show. Once you begin seeing the world with the eyes of an entrepreneur, you realize that money-making opportunities are all around you. Once you begin seeing the world with the eyes of an entrepreneur, you realize that money-making opportunities are all around you.

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

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

And I am often approached by entrepreneurs in cities which don’t have a vibrant VC community. And then there are smatterings (Dallas 2x, DC 3x, Philly 3x, Austin, Boulder, Seattle not to mention San Diego 8x, Santa Barbara 8x – where I invested in RingRevenue). I travel the country a lot. I’m in NY 6-8 times.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

By early 2010, I found my stylistic voice and identified my audience of emerging entrepreneurs and thus dropped my penname. Ideas Are Worthless. I will also increase the amount of video content, including snippets from talks given by my UC Santa Barbara classroom guest speakers. Appeared on Reddit’s front page.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 10, 2011

He overheard me talking about Steve Jobs in conjunction with the entrepreneurship class that I teach at UC Santa Barbara. I gathered ten such examples which are particularly relevant to entrepreneurs. I regularly bring successful entrepreneurs into my UC Santa Barbara classroom. We built it for ourselves.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In my capacity as a Professor of Practice at UC Santa Barbara , I was asked by the Student Association if I would consider interviewing rapper, fashion designer and entrepreneur Tyler The Creator. A version of this article previously appeared Forbes.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

Although many are entertaining, most fail to provide entrepreneurs with a sufficient return on their time investment. Unfortunately, most business books do not offer entrepreneurs an adequate payoff. I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years.

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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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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

We will collaborate on ideas and projects. We created Superfriends, a group of local entrepreneurs that will gather to share ideas and help each other grow personally and professionally. Tags: Eric Greenspan 140conf Google Voice jeff pulver santa barbara social media tech news Twitter.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 7, 2014

And every once in a while, someone is looking for me, Eric Greenspan, the serial entrepreneur, dad and closet chef, chief consultant at Greenspan Consulting and Chief Storyteller at schoolofbookkeeping.com. I had no idea how to get a table so I just called my Onstar service and asked them to do it. Eric Greenspan, chef.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 7, 2014

And every once in a while, someone is looking for me, Eric Greenspan, the serial entrepreneur, dad and closet chef, chief consultant at Greenspan Consulting and Chief Storyteller at schoolofbookkeeping.com. I had no idea how to get a table so I just called my Onstar service and asked them to do it. Eric Greenspan, chef.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 12, 2011

." 6) You are the only person I have ever met who was Class President of both their undergraduate (UC Santa Barbara) and their graduate (Pepperdine) schools. It was a great precursor to being an entrepreneur. Did your Presidencies equip you for life at a startup or was it just an effective way to meet coeds? "Yes

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

What''s the idea behind FieldLevel? They were very small shcools--he went to Cate, which is inland from Ventura in the Santa Barbara area, and I went to The Thacher School, and we both ended up at the University of Southern California. What makes it really different, is our platform empowers coaches.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Students are great source of ideas because they’re willing to challenge the existing norms – the basis for all disruption. But beyond the idea that startups come from colleges, they are obviously a very important feeder system into local startups with cheap, young, hard-working talent. I thought it was an amazing idea.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 1, 2011

His tenacity and persistence are instructive to emerging entrepreneurs. As I note in Spilling The Beans , the basic ideas upon which startups are founded are worth nothing. As I note in Spilling The Beans , the basic ideas upon which startups are founded are worth nothing. "The idea that creativity isn’t magic.

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