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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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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2014 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. 28 from 7pm-10pm in Santa Monica. We will have a line up of amazing panelist who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2014. We will have an amazing treat for you all.

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Want To Trip Out? This Entrepreneur Can Hook You Up

InfoChachkie

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? Greathouse : Yes, it always seems to get harder to launch a startup when a market begins maturing.

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Why Millennial Entrepreneurs Should Never Watch Shark Tank Alone

InfoChachkie

Per the show’s Mark Cuban, “Anybody with an idea can see how the business process works, see that these are normal people, and there's nothing magical about coming up with an idea.” A number of my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students initially model their investment pitches on the show's contrived format.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

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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. After graduating from college, Bill and his brother Larry started GNP Development, Inc.,

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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. As such, I work hard to understand their expectations and I strive to live up to them. I also made it clear that a healthy corporate culture can guide employees to make kind and just decisions.

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Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital

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It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. The Valley has obsessed with a quick up-and-to-right momentum story because we were thought to live in “winner take most” markets.