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Start Your Company Where You Want To Live – Period

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I am writing this article while sitting on a rooftop deck, overlooking the ocean in Baja, Mexico. Santa Barbara Dreaming. When my wife and I arrived in Santa Barbara in the early 1990''s, we did not know a single person. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. Home Field Advantage.

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An Enchanting Conversation With Guy Kawasaki

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I even plan to use it in my upcoming UC Santa Barbara Entrepreneurial Selling class. As Guy notes in the accompanying video interview, his primary goal with Enchantment is to reach a broader audience, beyond the high-tech, startup world. That doesn’t work.”. As they say, ‘There, but for the grace of God, go I.’”.

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Five Startup Tips From Bill Gates

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. "The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In Mark Suster’s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara , he advised his audience of entrepreneurial students to master two skills: selling and coding. I am not suggesting you spurn product excellence.

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