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MARCH 2, 2011

Santa Barbara-based D2 Technologies , which develops embedded IP communications software, reports today that it has acquired Webia Technologies , a developer of products for the Google Android OS platform. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Webia is based in Taipei, Taiwan. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 22, 2011

Santa Barbara-based FastSpring , the e-commerce and payment processing software firm headed by Dan Engel, said this week that it has launched a new online subscription management and payment service called SaaSy. The new product is specifically aimed at providers of subscription services. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2009

I guess just knowing we were doing the seminar was enough as she went home and checked her son’s Google search history. At first, she thought she was safe because she had found that he had Googled the word “poo.&# Anyhow, long story short, I responded with, “lol, he Googled poo…he was poogling?&#

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

NastyGal -- which was just about unheard of a year ago -- has rocketed to a over $100M business, driven by women's clothing, shoes, and other products. range of software products, and which has offices in Calabasas and Santa Barbara. Edmunds was also one of the companies. The firm--which was started in the quiet and.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I even plan to use it in my upcoming UC Santa Barbara Entrepreneurial Selling class. An entrepreneur, in particular, has to be likeable and trustworthy AND have a great product. An entrepreneur has to enchant people to use new products and services not simply bludgeon them, promote them or discount them.

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AUGUST 21, 2009

Santa Barbara-based FastSpring , a developer of e-commerce software headed by Dan Engel, said today that it has released a new product which handles mail-in-rebates for online vendors. FastSpring is the latest venture of Dan Engel, who has previously been at Google, Picasa, and GoToMyPC. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And they need it because nobody senior at Stripe, Discord, Coinbase or for that matter Facebook, Google or Snap is leaving without a ton of incentives to do so. We can’t wait for customers to use the product for 12–18 months and do customer interviews or look at purchase cohorts. (HP Style) are dead. just to name a few!

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NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Santa Barbara-based introNetworks, a developer of social networking software for connecting trade show attendees and organizations, has released an update to the firm's software.

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JANUARY 9, 2009

Santa Barbara-based D2 Technologies, which develops embedded software for the voice-over-IP market, said this week at CES that it has upgraded the firm's flagship vPort product line. The firm said the 2.0 The firm is targeting development of femtocells, mobile internet devices, and handsets with the software. READ MORE>>.

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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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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

I read Les Miserables in French and I’ve seen the theater production over 20 times. He will use it to get answers to questions on Wolfram Alpha or just by Googling it. Santa Barbara schools just approved a $700,000 purchase of iPads for its students. Schools in the U.S.A. require the teaching of a foreign language.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

I read Les Miserables in French and I’ve seen the theater production over 20 times. He will use it to get answers to questions on Wolfram Alpha or just by Googling it. Santa Barbara schools just approved a $700,000 purchase of iPads for its students. Schools in the U.S.A. require the teaching of a foreign language.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

I read Les Miserables in French and I’ve seen the theater production over 20 times. He will use it to get answers to questions on Wolfram Alpha or just by Googling it. Santa Barbara schools just approved a $700,000 purchase of iPads for its students. Schools in the U.S.A. require the teaching of a foreign language.

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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. Is it hard to balance your work hard / play hard culture, especially in beautiful Santa Barbara? Cats or dogs?

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MAY 5, 2016

The bottom line is that the TaxJar team is happy - and because we're happy, we're incredibly productive.”. “We He then joined Picasa and was instrumental in its acquisition by Google. Dan shared his entrepreneurial insights with my UC Santa Barbara students, including the manner in which he built a virtual organization.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 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.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

In addition, I was honored to speak with such notable entrepreneurs as: Kevin O’Connor (Founder DoubleClick and FindTheBest), Brad Feld (Founder TechStars, Partner The Foundry Group), Marten Mickos (Founder MySQL and CEO of Eucalyptus Systems) and Len Short (CMO, (Product) RED, AOL and Charles Schwab). For instance, What Are My Options Worth?

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

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. The first product tests for gluten and is especially targeted at people with Celiac’s disease which affects 1% of the population meaning millions of people.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Datapop (www.datapop.com) announced a Series A funding for the startup, which is developing search advertising products which better tune ads to improve click throughs. For example, take a product from a major electronics retailer, a 42-inch flat screen TV. They're a local team out of Santa Barbara.

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OCTOBER 10, 2008

Santa Barbara-based SendMeHome (www.sendmehome.com) is looking to solve that problem, with a free service to print out labels which attach to your item, and where you can register items in case they are lost. After my degree, I traveled for a year, and stopped by Santa Barbara, where we are based. Good luck!

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. After you've done that, and see that it is working, as an entrepreneur, you really start to believe in your product. He founded Doubleclick, which he sold to Google, and he sold his last company to Amazon.

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JULY 14, 2011

This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. Scuba or skydiving?

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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. Our approach is often additive to all parties, resulting in ongoing, productive relationships.

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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 did, instead, was enable affiliates, particularly on higher margin or more complex products like insurance, travel, or education--to call someone. Explain your technology?

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JANUARY 21, 2010

Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. But I’m sure he’ll never remember your company when Google buys you for $500 million and he’s still eating Ramen – right? We’ve had great experiences with Michael Pfau in Santa Barbara.

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