SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 26, 2009

" Kurt has a great background in sales and marketing. He is well known in the Southern California Technology scene for his work producing the Digital Family event series, along with the MOTM (Meeting of the Minds) series. We have regular monthly meetings in Westlake Village, Hollywood, Santa Barbara, & Newport Beach.

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Los Angeles Southern California Technology Angel 150

Eric Greenspan

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

As far as technology goes, sure, I’ll be using my knowledge and skills to develop a business around technology and the process of producing our product uses some rather savvy science, so its not as big of a stretch as it might appear. The Macaw Coffee factory in Santa Barbara, Honduras. operations and sales.

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Santa Barbara Course Sample IBM 173

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. We then allow them to understand the true potential velocity of markets online.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Sales 140

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. Many of the companies that are spawned at the University emerge from the Technology Management Program , but Milo is an exception. I love origin stories.

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Santa Barbara Technology Research Organization 169

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. NastyGal -- which was just about unheard of a year ago -- has rocketed to a over $100M business, driven by women's clothing, shoes, and other products. NastyGal is just one of a number of fashion-meets-technology startups to emerge in Los Angeles, which.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I’ve recently had a chance to reconnect with Eric David Greenspan ( LinkedIn , Twitter ) He’s the CEO of Make It Work a high quality, personal, high touch technology service provider for homes and small businesses. I roughly know about MakeItWork, but tell me a bit about where you spend your time day-to-day. Great stuff!

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Acquisition Customer Custom Ideas 170

SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 26, 2010

Ben has invested the past 10 years in tracking the Southern California Technology market, maintaining a deep database of technology firms and publishing realtime news about local high tech companies through his website, socalTECH.com.

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Santa Barbara Southern California High Tech Hollywood 100

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Both the video and Seth’s post are excellent primers regarding how to deal with guerilla marketing gone wrong. As John Greathouse noted in his blog entry, Putting “Trade” Back Into Tradeshows , several years ago, I pulled off a guerilla marketing coup at a large tradeshow by hiring actors to portray monks. By: Seth Epstein.

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Marketing Conference Startup Santa Barbara 230

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. Almost nobody believed and now look at it. Online education. 6SensorLabs.

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Funding Technical Review Ideas Startup 362

InfoChachkie

MAY 11, 2010

Below is a talk on Cloud Computing from the University of California Santa Barbara’s Technology Management Program, by Michael Crandell. I think you will be surprised by what the CEO of this industry-leading cloud computing has to say about the future of the Cloud. Crandell received his B.A.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara SaaS Study 149

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Photo courtesy of Santa Barbara Independent’s recent Techtopia Issue. As Kevin points out, “Your prospects are busy people and they don’t care about the innards of your product. They care about finding solutions to their problems.” Image: Santa Barbara Independent, all rights reserved. Readability Test.

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Santa Barbara Writing Tips Product 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

So, if you're a marketer, how do you track and encourage those word-of-mouth recommendations? Glazier--who is was most recently CEO of Eventful, but has a long history in San Diego's tech industry--sat down with us to talk about the new startup. Wildlink is backed by Mucker Capital. How does this work?

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San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

In the startup world, one of the most difficult journeys to market is by companies who are taking basic scientific advances and technologies originally developed at universities, and taking them all the way to use in the commercial world. So explain where you are now with the taking your technology to market?

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Startup Southern California UCLA Incubator 100

Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

Zingle, a Carlsbad, CA-based tech startup targeting the service industry and consumer-facing businesses with its messaging app technology, has raised $3 million in venture capital, according to a regulatory filing earlier this month. or forward the query to an appropriate hotel staffer to respond. Hate2Wait #H8toW8 pic.twitter.com/KcMuKvoqRZ.

Technology 40

Technology Santa Barbara Venture Capital Venice 40

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

In that post I talked about how to select a law-firm for a startup. Michael Pfau (Santa Barbara … Reicker Pfau). And over the past few years I had been egging him on from LA to get Cooley to take our market more seriously. I told him that our market was absolutely booming and was worthy of a commensurate investment.

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Venture Capital Startup Los Angeles GRP Partners 299

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 3, 2012

Seth Epstein, Founder and CEO SocialStay , former Founder and CEO of FUEL (acquired by Razorfish) and Emmy Award winner for his work on the X-Games, recently spoke at UC Santa Barbara as part of the Technology Management Program’s Distinguished Lecture Series. Find problems in the area you are passionate about.

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Ideas Guide Startup Santa Barbara 266

Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

I’ve learned much about French history as a result. I now make a living knowing WordPress, CSS, HTML and of course search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing. Santa Barbara schools just approved a $700,000 purchase of iPads for its students. Marketing maniac. About my company(s): [link].

HTML 139

HTML Search Engine Optimization Santa Barbara Education 139

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. Along with taking Sr.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Search Marketing. We caught up with Jason Lehmbeck , one of the firm's founders, to hear more about the company. Lots of marketers are feeling a lot of pain in their search marketing, and we thought there was a great opportunity here to solve that problem. Jason Lehmbeck: There are two core pieces to the technology.

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Yahoo Platform Advertising Startup 171

socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2020

Tell us about this new program? You may have heard a couple of firms in the Bay Area talking about the importance of founder well being, mental health, and stress management, but from our perspective, this also includes coaching and leadership development. Brian Garrett: We're launching a founder health and wellness program.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. Having the pitches and showcase as part of the conference is a nice feature for the startups, so the whole thing isn’t just about the pitch. While winning pitch competitions is great, it’s not the most important thing about Startup of the Year.

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Startup Technical Review Competition Software Review 140

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. We caught up with Skyler to hear about HeyTutor, which already has 25 employees and is growing rapidly. HeyTutor is about connecting people hyper-locally. The second part, is our matching technology. What is HeyTutor?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

We all now visit UGC sites to learn about products & services before we use them. I’ve been thinking a lot about this over the past two years and bending the ears of any entrepreneur who will humor me to hear what I think the solution needs to look like. .&# I was thinking about the St. Why can’t I have it?

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Help Santa Barbara Technical Review Orange County 309

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 13, 2014

Tracy DiNunzio, Founder and CEO of Tradesy , recently shared her insights as part of UC Santa Barbara''s Distinguished Lecture Series. There is no way to prevent rejection, failure, market conditions smacking you in the face when you have a business. Competitors killing your market, all kinds of things that you cannot predict.

Entrepreneur 187

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Santa Barbara 187

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The group--which was started by Richard Koffler and John Morris , two well known investors in Los Angeles--has been trying to help connect CEOs with interesting university and other technology projects. To better understand what they're trying to do, we spoke with both Richard and John about the group. Thanks for the time today.

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Networking Research Startup USC 215

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

We thought we'd catch back up with Winston to hear about the Morphlabs. Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara. earlier this year, and then got it funded, raising about $5.5

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Southern California Startup Cloud Computing El Segundo 242

Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

I’ve learned much about French history as a result. I now make a living knowing WordPress, CSS, HTML and of course search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing. Santa Barbara schools just approved a $700,000 purchase of iPads for its students. I didn’t take a single course on computer programming in school.

HTML 100

HTML Search Engine Optimization Santa Barbara Education 100

Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

I’ve learned much about French history as a result. I now make a living knowing WordPress, CSS, HTML and of course search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing. Santa Barbara schools just approved a $700,000 purchase of iPads for its students. I didn’t take a single course on computer programming in school.

HTML 100

HTML Search Engine Optimization Santa Barbara Education 100

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology. This technology allows us to see what is hot. This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Angel Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 150

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 10, 2011

He overheard me talking about Steve Jobs in conjunction with the entrepreneurship class that I teach at UC Santa Barbara. He proceeded to tell me several interesting and entertaining stories about Steve (all flattering), dating back to the early-1980’s. He simply stated his opinion and went about his busy day.

Tips 279

Tips Startup Santa Barbara Entrepreneur 279

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

I generally encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to complete their formal education before joining or creating a startup. Innovations Are More Than Technological Features. "Our "Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships." Look around.

Tips 247

Tips Startup Entrepreneur Santa Barbara 247

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. So we think we're the right size for the market in 2009.

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

InfoChachkie

APRIL 1, 2013

How did a small, open source software company from Finland capture billions in market share from Oracle? You can watch Marten tell his entertaining story in the following 15-minute excerpt from his UC Santa Barbara talk. It was the best marketing campaign ever. Note: I am a micro-Angel investor in Eucalyptus. We spent 1.6M

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Oracle Startup News Press 229

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Santa Monica startup airline Surf Air has been spreading its wings in recent months and spreading the word about its initiatives at Silicon Beach events such as Social Media Week LA and Techweek LA. Surf Air CEO and Co-Founder Wade Eyerly spoke about his startup’s progress and goals on panels at Social Media Week LA and Tech Week LA.

Social Media 89

Social Media Startup Santa Monica Santa Barbara 89

socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2010

After DoubleClick, Kevin eventually settled down in Santa Barbara, which is where his newest startup-- FindTheBest.com (www.findthebest.com) is headquartered. We caught up with Kevin to hear what FindTheBest is all about, and why he decided to get back into the startup game. What's FindTheBest all about?

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Startup Advertising Examples Santa Barbara 210

InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Steve is also a Stanford Professor and noted marketing entrepreneur. In specific terms, “the new… book… (leverages) Alexander Osterwalder’s business model generation book as the frontend of entrepreneurs thinking about their business. I recently spoke with Steve Blank, author of the new book The Startup Owner’s Manual.

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Startup Class Press Custom Development 229

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Most people have had the unfortunate experience of losing a portable electronic item -- a cell phone, iPod, or some other device -- while out and about. James Tamplin and Andrew Lee are the co-founders of the company, and sat down with us last week to talk about the company's service, and how it came about.

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Santa Barbara Startup Writing Ideas 100