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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

At the Twiistup panel last week, there was a debate over whether big companies could be created here, which is ridiculous--Demand Media is the latest example there, we've got Cornerstone OnDemand coming out soon, and there is no question there are market leading, large revenue companies coming out of Southern California. That's part one.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

When you look at social messaging, and talk about social messaging, we're talking about social media, text messaging, email, and chat applications. As a serial entrepreneur, what are you doing differently this time based on what you learned from your prior ventures? We were most excited about Santa Barbara and San Diego.

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APRIL 27, 2009

We've opened an office in Los Angeles, and continue to maintain one in Santa Barbara. We continue to be open to all kinds of sectors in the new fund, but we're increasing our efforts in media. It's really important to be local for entrepreneurs, when you're at the very beginning of a company's life.

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JUNE 25, 2012

How do you sort through all that social media activity you are driving, and figure out who really cares about what you're posting? The service was created by experience serial entrepreneurs Mark Sylvester and KymberleeWeil, who some might know from creating service introNetworks. What is Likeabilitee? They are big, private communities.

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JUNE 16, 2009

Earlier this month, Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue (www.ringrevenue.com) announced that it had raised a round of venture funding. What we can do, as a result, is pass through a unique, toll free number specific to the combination of advertiser, campaign, media placement, which is swapped out dynamically as a merchant's page loads.

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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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