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Success, Santa Barbara Style: Patagonian Sexwax With A Side Order of UGGS

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Six outstanding entrepreneurs have created this sweet flavor of success in one of the most beautiful places on earth – Santa Barbara, California. Santa Barbara has become a high-tech startup mecca, rivaling cities many times its size. According to Doug, “ productivity fell dramatically whenever the surf was up.”.

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FindTheBest Takes On Smartphone Comparisons

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Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest --the online products comparison site headed by former DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Conner--said this week that it has launched a comprehensive smartphone comparison feature on the service. READ MORE>>.

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13 Ecosystem Builders That Are Boosting Startup Growth

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These organizations work tirelessly in guiding and supporting startup teams to success, regardless of their stage of business, as well as continue to encourage innovation across the planet. Indiegogo is a platform for ground breaking technology and where you can find interesting products that haven’t hit the mainstream market.

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Making the Internet Smarter at Helping Us

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We all now visit UGC sites to learn about products & services before we use them. A few years ago I planned an outing to Santa Barbara for my Dad’s 70th birthday. In non-geek speak this means that there is so much information out there now it’s hard to separate the good stuff from the rest. And there you have it.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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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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How To Vet Startup Opportunities – Quit Your Day Job With Confidence

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As a Professor of Practice in Entrepreneurship at UC Santa Barbara , students ask me dozens of times each quarter, “What do you think of my idea?” Readers are guided through the idea vetting process by covering a variety of topics, including: People, Pain, Product, Market, Plan, Pitch and Pitfalls.

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Why Millennial Entrepreneurs Should Never Watch Shark Tank Alone

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As noted in What’s Real About Shark Tank , the show can give consumer product companies a significant marketing and revenue boost, as it did for one of my former students, Jeff Overall, Founder of PolarPro. A number of my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students initially model their investment pitches on the show's contrived format.