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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

With the enormous changes to our economies and financial markets?—?how how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued?

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Start Your Company Where You Want To Live – Period

InfoChachkie

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. Real estate, salaries and operating expenses tend to be cheaper in secondary markets.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

InfoChachkie

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. In today’s market, so much focus is placed on transacting business online. 10) Rob, why does the world need RingRevenue? . “In

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Talk Like An 8th Grader When Pitching Investors

InfoChachkie

Photo courtesy of Santa Barbara Independent’s recent Techtopia Issue. Select the real software product from this list. Open-architected, workforce-neutral, productivity assimilator. All of these “products” were created with a few clicks of a buzzword generator. Image: Santa Barbara Independent, all rights reserved.

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Non-millennial Bootstrapping – These 50-Something Entrepreneurs Rejected VC $ And Nailed It

InfoChachkie

I have been watching ProductPlan for several years, as the founders are both friends and pillars of the Santa Barbara Startup Community. Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS.

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An Enchanting Conversation With Guy Kawasaki

InfoChachkie

I even plan to use it in my upcoming UC Santa Barbara Entrepreneurial Selling class. An entrepreneur, in particular, has to be likeable and trustworthy AND have a great product. An entrepreneur has to enchant people to use new products and services not simply bludgeon them, promote them or discount them.

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Interview with Jordan Glazier, Wildfire Systems

socalTECH

So, if you're a marketer, how do you track and encourage those word-of-mouth recommendations? San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging.

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