SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 11, 2009

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 -- The MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast Presents: Winemaking in Santa Barbara County - A World of Entrepreneurs. Just forty years ago, there were fewer than 200 acres of vineyards in Santa Barbara County. See [link] (more).

Santa Barbara 100

Santa Barbara Enterprise Forum Entrepreneur Marketing 100

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OCTOBER 25, 2013

We''re trying to identify the top 100 up-and-coming individuals in Southern California''s technology industry! It''s a list of individuals--across Southern California, from San Diego to Santa Barbara--who people ought to watch. Nominations will close on Friday, November 1st.

SoCalTech 170

SoCalTech Southern California Santa Barbara San Diego 170

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Here's Mike Panesis , Executive Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at California Lutheran University (CLU). READ MORE>>.

Ventura 154

Ventura Tech Coast Angels Santa Barbara Southern California 154

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

Santa Barbara-based RightSignature , online, software-as-a-service for collecting electronic signatures, took "Best of Show" at VentureNet Wednesday, after a day of presentations by thirteen Southern California startups. Tags: rightsignature venturenet saas prize startup entrepreneur.

VentureNet 182

VentureNet Southern California Technology Council Santa Barbara 182

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. He is a Professor Of Practice at UC Santa Barbara, where he teaches courses on New Venture Creation and Entrepreneurial Sales.

Santa Barbara 113

Santa Barbara SaaS Southern California Course 113

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Want to be an entrepreneur? Instead, grab your surfboard and head to UC Santa Barbara. In addition, Entrepreneur Magazine recently included UCSB in its Top 50 Schools For VC Backed Entrepreneurs at number 37. UC Santa Barbara has avoided this mistake by placing its Program within the Engineering department.

Santa Barbara 258

Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

Steve Reich

MARCH 23, 2012

I joined a panel with Sam Teller, Managing Director of LaunchpadLA ( www.LaunchpadLA.la ) , Klaus Schauser CEO of Appfolio ( www.appfolio.com ) , and Michael Holliday, founder of the incubator and prominent architect in Santa Barbara, to talk about the pros and cons of the current incubator boom.

Santa Barbara 49

Santa Barbara Incubator Technology Outsource 49

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FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Santa Monica-based membership-based airline Surf Air is telling potential customers that it recently reached 1200 members for its service, which allows members to take all-you-can-fly trips between the Los Angeles, Bay Area, Santa Barbara, Las Vegas, San Diego, and other areas via its own fleet of turboprops. READ MORE>>.

Santa Barbara 100

Santa Barbara Southern California Santa Monica San Diego 100

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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.

Venture Capital 145

Venture Capital Startup Invest Capital 145

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Frank Addante, who founded Rubicon, is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded L90, which was acquired. range of software products, and which has offices in Calabasas and Santa Barbara. RightScale is one of a number of enterprise software and open source companies to emerge in the area, and is based in Santa Barbara.

Technical Review 279

Technical Review Company Companies Southern California 279

Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2017

A Silicon Valley entrepreneur has set out to boost the startup ecosystem in San Diego and the rest of Southern California—and he already has scored a coup by partnering with Bill Maris, the founder and former CEO of Google Ventures, now known as GV.

Southern California 96

Southern California San Diego Startup Google 96

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JANUARY 27, 2010

According to the Tech Coast Angels' Richard Sudek, Chairman of the TCA, the group is looking to hold bi-monthly mixers which will help entrepreneurs connect with its angel investors, after a successful mixer in late 2009. The TCA is the biggest angel investment group in Southern California, and is among the largest nationally.

Tech Coast Angels 157

Tech Coast Angels Orange County Seed Funding Santa Barbara 157

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Friday, November 2, 2012 -- Startup Weekend Santa Babara. Startup Weekend Santa Barbara is a 54 hour event where entrepreneurs, designers, developers come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch startups. Santa Barbara's second Startup Weekend will be held at Citrix Online.

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Santa Barbara Startup Design Ideas 113

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

Thanks to all of our sponsors and advertisers, who make our coverage of Southern. California's technology industry possible. Looking to reach Southern California's high tech executives and. socalTECH.com offers up continuous coverage of Southern California's growing high. Funding great entrepreneurs.

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SoCalTech Advertising Rustic Canyon Glendale 127

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Redpoint Ventures is one of the venture capital firms which has straddled both Northern California and Southern California, with offices in both locations. It would be interesting to hear about where your interests are nowdays, there was a rumor Redpoint had backed off activity here lately. We really believe in the market.

Redpoint 154

Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

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JUNE 9, 2016

Santa Barbara-based Impact Radius , which develops digital marketing and affiliate marketing software, has raised $30M in a funding round, according to the company. Petterson is a serial entrepreneur, having previously also co-founded Leadpoint, founded Savings.com, and served at ValueClick, and co-founding Commission Junction.

Software 100

Software Marketing Ticketmaster Santa Barbara 100

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Here’s how to do it.

Layoffs 159

Layoffs Woodland Hills Southern California Orange County 159

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Geographically our strategy is to fund about 50% of our deals in Southern California (from San Diego to Santa Barbara) and 50% of our deals on a national basis. As I like to say when asked, “For entrepreneurs you generally need to go to 2-3 cities max and probably pitch 5-15 investors.

Venture Capital 396

Venture Capital Funding Technical Review Startup 396

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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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Southern California Startup Cloud Computing El Segundo 242

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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. We'd like to be one of the most prominent investors in Southern California.

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 16, 2009

TECH BREW: Santa Barbara Region's Premier Networking Event for High Technology Professionals, Cutting Edge Entrepreneurs and Innovators and Business Leaders. Monday, June 22, 2009 -- Summer Daze Mega Mixer. See [link] (more).

Santa Barbara 100

Santa Barbara Networking Entrepreneur Technology 100

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JANUARY 22, 2010

TECH BREW for almost three decades,the premier Santa Barbara region networking business event,fostering collaborations, business development, professional services and resources, employment connections and dialogs for sustainable economic development.

Santa Barbara 100

Santa Barbara Resource Networking Entrepreneur 100

Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

inLife signed up dozens of merchants in Santa Barbara for their activity site. The emails were so tailored, that many merchants called back to thank them for the personal attention. But so many companies are being launched so fast that probability tells you that there will be major winners. Of course not.

Incubator 91

Incubator Web Entrepreneur Santa Barbara 91

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. Andrew Schydlowsky: I'm a serial entrepreneur.

Artificial Inteligence 140

Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Sales 140

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 ). So you can become friends with these people just like NORMAL people and, don’t worry, you’re not going to get a bill for having a beer with them.

Startup 318

Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

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. YouTube and many others.

Social Network 196

Social Network Networking Social Media Yahoo 196

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JANUARY 11, 2017

A lot of the challenge is in human resources that understands that technology, however, we live in Southern California, which has some of the best universities in the country in that area. Our employees come from Caltech, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, and we've employed people as far away as the University of Michigan.

Startup 100

Startup Southern California UCLA Incubator 100

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APRIL 4, 2013

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. Brenton Sullivan: We really put the customer at the center of our business, something that many entrepreneurs miss out on.

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Coach USC Statistics Startup 252

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APRIL 27, 2009

We've increased our focus on Southern California, which is good for you guys. 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.

Santa Barbara 124

Santa Barbara Entrepreneur Funding Invest 124

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. While at UC Santa Barbara, I started a café which served over 1100 dorm residents. I feel too many people are discouraging, and as a result, too many entrepreneurs are discouraged and give up.

Startup 150

Startup SEO Pepperdine Blogging 150

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.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

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MAY 18, 2009

This morning's interview with Daryl Bernstein , CEO and co-founder of Santa Barbara-based RightSignature (www.rightsignature.com), a firm which has created an online, software-as-a-service offering to collect legally binding signatures on documents. I've been an entrepreneur for many years. Daryl Bernstein: Yeah, we have.

Outsource Development 100

Outsource Development Santa Barbara Education SaaS 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency. He is a media and digital media entrepreneur, senior executive, negotiator and dealmaker with an unbroken track record of success in start-up and emerging growth companies, as well as major and independent media companies. Want To Sponsor?

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. Sangster is a serial entrepreneur and M&A executive with experience both founding and acquiring businesses. Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Baghdasarian was co-founder of Monterey Networks, which was sold to Cisco Systems back in 1999, has been an active angel investor in Southern California. After that, I was involved in a lot of angel investing, starting companies, and helping entrepreneurs to get going. Zareh Baghdasarian is the CEO of 15desks (www.15desks.com),

Education 124

Education Startup Course Tool 124

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Sangster is a serial entrepreneur and M&A executive with experience both founding and acquiring businesses.

Tech Coast Angels 96

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

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. Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. Event Details.

Idealab 84

Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84