socalTECH

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Santa Barbara's Phone Halo pitches the idea of its GPS/Bluetooth wallet tracking device in this (kinda campy) video. Peter Pham, of Los Angeles technology studio/incubator Science Inc., apparently likes not just his startups to move fast, but also his cars. Introducing the PublishThis Content Cloud.

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Technical Review Santa Barbara Software Review Activision 157

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 9, 2011

Join One Source Alliance for appetizers and incredible networking opportunities with like-minded professionals from the Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles regions! This is the place to meet partners and customers, share ideas, and develop new business opportunities. Monday, May 9, 2011 -- One Source Alliance May Mixer.

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Santa Barbara Ventura Resource Los Angeles 100

InfoChachkie

MARCH 6, 2018

One of my former students, Sieva Kozinsky, Co-Founder & CEO of StudySoup recently shared his startup insights with my UC Santa Barbara students. Stephen Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From , has noted the importance of coffee shops during the Age of Enlightenment as hubs of idea germination.

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Santa Barbara Ideas Entertainment Education 113

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

However, to be a great VC you have to hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time. They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea. On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational.

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Venture Capital Writing Invest Pricing 471

Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

After 20+ Poogling seminars in Socal, we were approached by a concerned parent and the Santa Barbara Education Foundation to do a Poogling Seminar (teaching parents about child Internet safety) city-wide. Of course, we agreed to do it.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Santa Barbara: the home of the clicks (and the calls) , Do your kids Google poo? You've been blogging for a while, what are five good posts that I should check out? Flip flops required , How I got my mortgage company to lower my payments by $10k , Want more Twitter followers?, Great posts.

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Acquisition Customer Custom Ideas 170

InfoChachkie

APRIL 24, 2012

Kim Kovaks, Founder and CEO OptionEase , recently spoke to a class of emerging entrepreneurs at UC Santa Barbara. You have to stay on focus because, as an entrepreneur, you are going to get ideas coming at you every second. We encourage it…but it doesn’t mean you have to act upon (each idea). Getting Fired.

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Startup Santa Barbara Entrepreneur Class 258

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

I have been watching ProductPlan for several years, as the founders are both friends and pillars of the Santa Barbara Startup Community. Greathouse: Great products and companies that came out (of) Santa Barbara. We build product roadmap software – it’s a SaaS company based here in Santa Barbara, California.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

A Santa Barbara based company, Milo Sensors, is tackling this problem via a wearable that constantly alerts your smartphone of your blood alcohol level. We started Milo Sensors over two years ago through the UC Santa Barbara New Venture Competition. As such, none of us had the benefit of your TMP classes (laughs).

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The following guest post is from some of my former UC Santa Barbara students. Design together, the course that introduced the idea for brightblu, they were concurrently taking three other classes: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Art of the CEO. Fall quarter of Sr. Fall quarter of Sr. Along with taking Sr.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2010

The majority of students fret over the fact that they only have $5 of capital and limited time to launch their money making ideas. They move forward with the ideas they brainstormed before they knew how much capital they were given. In many cases, they devise ideas which require no cash. Santa Barbara Foundation.

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Santa Barbara Class Ideas Organization 191

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 5, 2015

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?” My response is typically, “What I think of your idea is irrelevant. The reality is that what I think about anyone’s nascent idea is totally meaningless. Share and Enjoy.

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Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Santa Barbara 100

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Tracy''s frank, pragmatic and somewhat controversial comments were presented as part of UC Santa Barbara''s Distinguished Lecture Series. Like don''t let anyone tell you, ''Your idea''s no good because someone else is doing it.’ Note: I am an investor in Tradesy via Rincon Venture Partners.). Falling Giants.

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Competition SaaS Santa Barbara Entrepreneur 254

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. When the early teams: angels, lowercase capital & first round capital funded Uber they had no idea it would be one of the most revolutionary ideas of our time. Far from it. It was an early and smart bet.

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Funding Technical Review Ideas Startup 362

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

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. Many people go back with lots of new ideas, experience, and energy. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

InfoChachkie

MARCH 11, 2013

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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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

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." I explore this peculiar entrepreneurial career path in further detail in THIS entry. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Tips Startup IP Santa Barbara 275

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

As part of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, serial entrepreneur and noted venture capitalist Mark Suster recently shared his advice with a large crowd of emerging entrepreneurs. Literally, (we received) hundreds and hundreds of in-bound inquiries, with no idea how we were going to talk to these people.”

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Entrepreneur Startup Conference Santa Barbara 272

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

We will collaborate on ideas and projects. We created Superfriends, a group of local entrepreneurs that will gather to share ideas and help each other grow personally and professionally. Tags: Eric Greenspan 140conf Google Voice jeff pulver santa barbara social media tech news Twitter.

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Social Network Networking Social Media Yahoo 196

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

The talented founder & CEO (Sean Rad) went on to create Tinder after Adly, proof that sometimes it takes the intersection of great founder + great idea + timing to produce a multi-billion outcome. innovated in social media advertising and for a variety of reasons wasn’t ultimately successful and went to zero.

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Venture Capital Capital Funding Startup 363

InfoChachkie

MARCH 9, 2016

I encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to launch mini-ventures while in school so they will begin to see the opportunities that surround them. Note: I am not purporting that these are particularly amazing or unique ideas. Along the way, they grab some cash while stressing their entrepreneurial muscles. Fashion Show.

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Startup Ideas Santa Barbara Entrepreneur 100

InfoChachkie

MARCH 7, 2016

I encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to launch mini-ventures while in school so they will begin to see the opportunities that surround them. Note: I am not purporting that these are particularly amazing or unique ideas. Along the way, they grab some cash while stressing their entrepreneurial muscles. Fashion Show.

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Startup Ideas Santa Barbara Entrepreneur 100

Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

The Case Foundation invests in people and ideas that can change the world. Indiegogo has brought more than 800,000 ideas to fruition since 2008. THE SANDBOX & StartupSB (Santa Barbara, CA). We continue to look for opportunities for Santa Barbara area startups outside of our region.

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Startup Technical Review Competition Software Review 141

InfoChachkie

JULY 7, 2014

Within reason, the larger your intern class, the greater the volume of creative ideas and more talented recruits you will subsequently hire full-time. University Affiliation – Both Expertcity’s and Computer Motion’s Founders were former Professors at UC Santa Barbara, which greatly facilitated our intern hiring efforts.

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Startup Santa Barbara Competition Class 257

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? How do you get those items back? I always wanted to start a company.

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Santa Barbara Startup Writing Ideas 100

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. Dan shared his entrepreneurial insights with my UC Santa Barbara students, including the manner in which he built a virtual organization.

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Entrepreneur Santa Barbara Email Outsource Development 100

InfoChachkie

MARCH 9, 2019

As a Professor at UC Santa Barbara , I constantly battle Hollywood’s stereotype of the rapacious, maniacal businessperson, by teaching my students that Honesty is a competitive advantage. When an entrepreneur selects a venture, the idea should be all consuming. In short, he was smitten.

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Startup Netflix Entrepreneur Metrics 100

InfoChachkie

MARCH 20, 2012

As part of the UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, Emmy Award winner Seth Epstein and current Founder and CEO of SocialStay , described seven practical, hands-on techniques entrepreneurs can use to enhance their overall awesomeness. Your brain will talk you out of stuff. Shut your mind up. Take action.

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Tool Startup Writing Santa Barbara 272

socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

My co-founder Kasey� and I started a boutique agency at the end of our time in college, which was in Santa Barbara. Both of us went to UC Santa Barbara, and were working as nannies there. We're able to really put our idea into action, through their skill set.

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Demand CTO Coach Screening CTO Hire 100

socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

What''s the idea behind FieldLevel? They were very small shcools--he went to Cate, which is inland from Ventura in the Santa Barbara area, and I went to The Thacher School, and we both ended up at the University of Southern California. What makes it really different, is our platform empowers coaches.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

I'm very curious to hear any reactions to this idea of a hot list. This is based on occurrences during this time period as compared to other time periods. It also includes some other social signals such as traffic, clicks, etc. The social signals seem obvious in some cases, but not always clear to me in other cases.

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Los Angeles Angel Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 150

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 1, 2011

As I note in Spilling The Beans , the basic ideas upon which startups are founded are worth nothing. It is the dogged pursuit of excellence that turns worthless ideas into worthwhile startups. I started to wonder, ‘Why do people suddenly now think they can sue over ownership of basic ideas?’… That is the main point.

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Ideas Santa Barbara Entertainment Conference 203

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

And then there are smatterings (Dallas 2x, DC 3x, Philly 3x, Austin, Boulder, Seattle not to mention San Diego 8x, Santa Barbara 8x – where I invested in RingRevenue). ” I know some people will cringe at this idea, “if the VC really wanted me they would come to ME.” I’m in NY 6-8 times.

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Venture Capital Marketing Santa Barbara Startup 365

InfoChachkie

JULY 28, 2015

We then turned Citrix’s question around, 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. At the same time, we made it clear that we were flattered and happy to further explore if a reasonable deal could be crafted. What is your price?”. VC Funding Alternative.

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Company Companies Santa Barbara Pricing 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2012

After the very successful 3-day Silicon Beach Fest this past June 2012 which attracted over 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London, Digital LA is bringing it back for a 1-day packed event on November 9 th. Who ever said you can only have a beach fest in the summer?

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Santa Barbara Social Media San Diego Venture Capital 83

InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2016

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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Entrepreneur Entertainment Technical Review Ideas 100

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Ideas Are Worthless. I will also increase the amount of video content, including snippets from talks given by my UC Santa Barbara classroom guest speakers. Appeared on Reddit’s front page. Startup Tips From Jeff Bezos. Generated > 500 Tweets, from Technorati, BusinessInsider and my site. What Are My Options Worth?

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