InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

When I published This Remote Working Experiment Failed And Succeeded on the Wall Street Journal last year, I had no idea it would generate so much social media attention. In contrast, TaxJar, a SaaS solution which makes automates online sales tax calculations, reporting and filings, is an entirely virtual company.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Santa Barbara Email Outsource Development 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. There's a lot more intricacy going into those algorithms and how the preferences work, but that's the general idea. After you've done that, and see that it is working, as an entrepreneur, you really start to believe in your product.

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Startup Venture Capital Beverly Hills Acquisition 113

socalTECH

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. How did you come up with the idea? What's the business model behind this--is it the sale of labels?

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Santa Barbara Startup Writing Ideas 100

InfoChachkie

MARCH 24, 2016

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.

Startup 100

Startup Sites Research Santa Barbara 100

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. Putting their expensive educations to good use, they aptly named their novelty product a "MouseDriver". From 35 To 500 Readers. crawl(ing) up.".

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Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. For businesses like this, finding new ways to drive more of these high-value inbound sales calls is key. Those are the two main criteria.

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

I review these tenets with my entrepreneurial students at UC Santa Barbara at the beginning of each quarter to reinforce many of the key topics we will cover in the following weeks. Although this can be a bit chaotic, the free-flow of ideas during an adVenture’s Beach Volleyball days is often crucial to its eventual success.

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Tips Startup Framework Customer 279

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

For our readers who haven't yet heard of your company, what's the idea behind StarGreetz? It also allows celebrities to talk to their fans, and offer them the opportunity purchase innovative, digital, personalized products like e-cards and invitiations. And, we will be launching more and more new products.

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Entertainment Startup Class Santa Barbara 159

InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2010

My House Is Not For Sale. Our response was that there was no “price” as our company was not for sale. We then turned Citrix’s question around by saying, “You knocked on our door with an intent to buy so you obviously have some idea of the price you are willing to pay. free weekly Infochachkie articles! What is that price?”.

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Company Companies Pricing Santa Barbara 160

InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

If you are a leader at a startup and you are reading a business book, you are not closing customers, raising capital, improving your product, or spending time with your loved ones. I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years.

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Technical Review Blogging Class Entrepreneur 279

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas. Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. He is a recognized leader in the Voice 2.0 wonder what that might be?

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas. Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. He is a recognized leader in the Voice 2.0

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

Greathouse : Let''s start with a question that will be especially helpful for my UC Santa Barbara students. I realize WA''s corporate culture strives to provide an authentic travel experience to your customers, but how do you go beyond marketing jive and turn the platitudes into a truly unique product?

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Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Resource 187

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

In high school, he founded Solar Devices, a firm that sold plans and kits for solar energy products. which made a natural language product for Lotus 1-2-3 called HAL. Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas. He is a recognized leader in the Voice 2.0

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

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. Our goal is to produce a $10 billion+ winner and remain the market leader in this SaaS category of AI in Sales & Marketing.

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Venture Capital Capital Funding Startup 363

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

They get together with a few buddies, bounce around ideas, build some code (sometimes internally, sometimes through contractors), start talking to potential angel investors and then register their company. Their memory – the idea was theirs in the first place and you ran with it and didn’t include them.

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Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318