InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

Lifestyle businesses are typically looked upon with derision by investors, as they generally do not have economic metrics that lead to large exits. Not satisfied with the quality of surf wax currently on the market, he decided to make his own. However, a number of Santa Barbara’s “lifestyle businesses” are anything but small.

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Santa Barbara Startup Sales Entrepreneur 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The fund is just celebrated its first year in business, so we thought we'd catch up with Brian to hear more about what the firm is investing in, the challenges of raising a venture fund in this market, plus his view on the Los Angeles venture market. Let's start with an overview of the fund. What do you invest in?

Southern California 153

Southern California Startup Palomar Rustic Canyon 153

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

MediaScience, a market research company based in Austin, TX, tries to detect hidden attitudes among members of test panels by capturing their facial expressions, eye movements, heart rate, and other biometric characteristics. But if adults want to immerse themselves in the battle of opinions, there’s a new app on the market.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review News Social Media Startup 40

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags. I think we've got a great team, with the right product, at the right time in the market. Jason Howe: Right now, an IPO is an impossibility at this point in the market.

Startup 113

Startup CTO Hire Resource Venture Capital 113

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

We find that there’s all this really specialized software, software as a service, certain platforms, and different places you can do marketing; all of those have their own sets of data. MW: It has to do with the difference between a marketer and a developer. You’re trying to be the middle-man between the marketers and developers?

Startup 85

Startup Southern California Mobile Software 85

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

a few days before the wheels came off of the market). We were immediately thrust into a globally competitive market for B2B collaboration tools. But the stock market continued to tank and one of our investors who had committed $12 million pulled out. Our first big institutional round was $16.5 My family went without me.

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Conference 308