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Interview with Elizabeth Cholawsky, HG Data

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For this morning's interview, we caught up with Elizabeth Cholawsky , the new CEO of Santa Barbara-based HG Data (www.hgdata.com), which develops software which helps marketers and salespeople understand the "technology stack" of their potential customers and prospects. Elizabeth Cholawsky: I never lost my ties to Santa Barbara.

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Five Startup Tips From Bill Gates

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Great Startup Ideas Come From Everywhere. "At "At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I'm afraid that's not quite right." Microsoft was one of the first successful high-tech companies to not distribute its profits to shareholders.

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Startup CEOs Lessons From Ben Affleck

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Just like a high-tech startup CEO, Ben was tasked with: identifying a great idea, raising money, recruiting the team, building a commercial product, positioning marketing and distributing the product and eventually exiting the venture. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Student-Founded Fantasy Pollster Is Hoping To Pick The Next President

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Late last year, we had the idea for Fantasy Pollster and have been working on it ever since. Greathouse: You and Brent are currently third and fourth year Computer Science majors at UC Santa Barbara. For instance, in the High Tech Sales class, we discussed the necessity of tracking ad performance.

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