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Non-millennial Bootstrapping – These 50-Something Entrepreneurs Rejected VC $ And Nailed It

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I have been watching ProductPlan for several years, as the founders are both friends and pillars of the Santa Barbara Startup Community. Jim Semick: I’ve been launching and managing software products for 15 years now, going back to when you and I worked together at Expertcity before it was acquired by Citrix. Semick: They are.

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Kevin O'Connor, ScOp Venture Capital, On Startup Success and Investments

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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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Entrepreneurs Need The Confidence, Courage And Conviction To Be Unreasonable

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Entrepreneurs must be unreasonable in order to dismiss the status quo and create novel solutions. However, an irrational lack of reasonableness will sabotage an entrepreneur’s efforts. I gave this talk was given to perspective and current UC Santa Barbara students, hence my references to UCSB’s Technology Management Program (TMP).

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Advice For Emerging Entrepreneurs (And Anyone Else With A Boss)

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My entrepreneurial students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, often ask my advice regarding their career choices. Although my advice is geared to recent college graduates, it is also applicable to anyone with a boss, irrespective of their age and experience level. Advice For Emerging Entrepreneurs.

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Want To Trip Out? This Entrepreneur Can Hook You Up

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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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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

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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. crawl(ing) up.".

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You Can’t Teach People To Be Entrepreneurs, But Entrepreneurs Can Be Taught

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Despite the fact that I teach entrepreneurship at UC Santa Barbara , I do not believe that entrepreneurs are created in classrooms. Instead of trying to teach students to be an entrepreneur, I expose my entrepreneurial students to tools that will help them solve real-world problems. Image: Pixabay. Share and Enjoy.