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. Putting their expensive educations to good use, they aptly named their novelty product a "MouseDriver". From 35 To 500 Readers.

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Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 233

InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

In early December of 1818, Jose de la Guerra devised a brilliant plan to thwart the French pirate Hippolyte de Bouchard who was lurking off the coast of Santa Barbara, contemplating an attack. By centering our alliances around our products and not our company, each group was comprised of complimentary partners.

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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. I love origin stories. What was the company’s genesis?

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Steve is also a Stanford Professor and noted marketing entrepreneur. By conceptualizing, selling, gathering feedback and then developing a product, startups achieve success more quickly and economically. Large companies write business plans, why of course, that’s the organizing document for a startup. Preaching What You Live.

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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. Putting their expensive educations to good use, they aptly named their novelty product a "MouseDriver". From 35 To 500 Readers.

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Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

By early 2010, I found my stylistic voice and identified my audience of emerging entrepreneurs and thus dropped my penname. Google likes these entries, as evidenced by the significant organic traffic it consistently drives to them. Organic traffic. Organic traffic. For instance, What Are My Options Worth? All Time Rank.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

For many entrepreneurs, college has little appeal. Academia's arbitrary, bureaucratic structure, combined with its predominant focus on theoretical issues, causes many entrepreneurs to depart college early. Innovation is commonly associated with either the introduction of new products or new features added to existing products.

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Tips Startup Entrepreneur Santa Barbara 247

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. We automatically add tracking and point those product references to e-commerce merchants.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara.

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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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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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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

I review these tenets with my entrepreneurial students at UC Santa Barbara at the beginning of each quarter to reinforce many of the key topics we will cover in the following weeks. As discussed in Hiring Entrepreneurs, the impact of each new hire during your startup’s early days is tremendous.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

It’s as good as it gets in personal productivity / life reflection. I know that would be surprising to many readers since keeping a blog somehow convinces people that I’m a time management or productivity ninja. That’s why productivity wasn’t tough for me as a CEO. I’m not. I couldn’t.

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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. This was certainly the case when I invested in a small YouTube video production company called Maker Studios that recently sold to Disney for just shy of $1 billion.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2010

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 an objective comparison engine for the more complex products and services. What's FindTheBest all about? I'm sure you've seen them all over.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

In this post I advocate taking a harder stand on where your product or solution differentiates in the market – even if it means you lose some deals as a result. Assume competition and assume within the buying organization you have enemies. I call this arming & aiming and it’s critical in building a sales organization.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2010

Citrix promised to operate Expertcity as a separate division and maintain its offices in Santa Barbara and it was unclear if other potential acquirers would have been willing to make, and keep, similar commitments. is, “What would our assets be worth as part of your organization?”. Get Out Of The Zone. Copyright © 2007-10 by J.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 20, 2011

Thus, entrepreneurs must consistently balance expanding their bandwidth via delegation with the more efficient, but non-scalable tendency to complete tasks themselves. In several cases, we eventually productized summer Intern projects, including a mobile version of GoToMyPC which we called PocketView. Rookie Draft.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency. Pierce is an advisor to Casual Connect, GamesBeat, and Digital Media Wire, an active angel investor and member of BitAngels and an active supporter of non-profit and advocacy organizations and is a member of Clinton Global Initiative.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Santa Barbara, who sent us a couple of projects she has found, and we're already gotten one of our group going up to look at that technology, because our member has very relevant experience in this area, and has determined that the technology is valuable. We need to be able to determine a pathway to a revenue generating product.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks is trying to make that whole part of your life more efficient, and much more manageable and organized for everybody. After that, I was involved in a lot of angel investing, starting companies, and helping entrepreneurs to get going. Later on, when you are at a university, you might manage things like your resume and portfolio.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Always looking to provide the very best for our community so that you may learn and grow as a startup or entrepreneur, Bill Gross is one of the best experts we could provide. A lifelong entrepreneur, Bill started several companies prior to Idealab. which made a natural language product for Lotus 1-2-3 called HAL.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. Empowerment is hard for most startup entrepreneurs.

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