InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

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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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Demand Media. Demand Media consistently popped up near number one in the list of "companies to work for" from our readers. 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. The now-public. Edmunds was also one of the companies.

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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. I love origin stories. What was the company’s genesis?

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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. Jim Semick: I’ve been launching and managing software products for 15 years now, going back to when you and I worked together at Expertcity before it was acquired by Citrix. Semick: They are.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

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. We automatically add tracking and point those product references to e-commerce merchants.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Other large deals include Santa Barbara-based CytomX , with a $30.0M In Orange County, the biggest deals were for Irvine-based WaterHealth International , a developer of water purification products with $22.1M Media and Entertainment came in second, with $70.1M--but only because San Diego's SkinIt boosted totals by $60M.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

Pierce is an advisor to Casual Connect, GamesBeat, and Digital Media Wire, an active angel investor and member of BitAngels and an active supporter of non-profit and advocacy organizations and is a member of Clinton Global Initiative. Peter Csathy - CEO Manatt Digital Media Ventures. He continues to sit on the board of Sorenson Media.

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JUNE 3, 2013

Along the way, they created a supportive community of emotionally attached stakeholders that would be the envy of any Social Media Manager. 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.

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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. The bottom line is that the TaxJar team is happy - and because we're happy, we're incredibly productive.”. “We A version of this article previously appeared Forbes.

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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. But our product wasn’t ready for primetime. Do product meetings yourself. The reality is, most startups do not work.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

At the Twiistup panel last week, there was a debate over whether big companies could be created here, which is ridiculous--Demand Media is the latest example there, we've got Cornerstone OnDemand coming out soon, and there is no question there are market leading, large revenue companies coming out of Southern California. That's part one.

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JUNE 3, 2013

Along the way, they created a supportive community of emotionally attached stakeholders that would be the envy of any Social Media Manager. 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.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

This was certainly the case when I invested in a small YouTube video production company called Maker Studios that recently sold to Disney for just shy of $1 billion. in fact we still look at many deals in the media sector whose main objective is to entertain people. 6SensorLabs. Apeel Technologies.

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JUNE 15, 2011

Eric Frankel: StarGreetz is a digital media content company, that allows brands to stand out in a very cluttered marketplace. It also allows celebrities to talk to their fans, and offer them the opportunity purchase innovative, digital, personalized products like e-cards and invitiations. What's the technology behind this?

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APRIL 21, 2013

You can watch Sarah tell her compelling story in the following 15-minute excerpt from her recent UC Santa Barbara talk. Although she enjoyed the experience and gained television production skills, which she still uses today, the lack of viewership at Current was de-motivating. That video is. what started it all.".

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JULY 14, 2011

This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. Scuba or skydiving?

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AUGUST 8, 2016

I ended up really relating to the nuance and intricacies of product supply and customer demand. As a UC Santa Barbara alum, do you have any advice for my UCSB students who desire to break into the fashion industry? That being said, we were getting inundated with inquiries regarding where to find our product.

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AUGUST 4, 2014

Greathouse : Let''s start with a question that will be especially helpful for my UC Santa Barbara students. Then we started advertising and getting media attention. Also, advertising in print media just doesn''t have the ROI that it once did. What tactics have worked best for you and how have these changed over the years?

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JUNE 17, 2011

He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets. He graduated from The American University in Washington D.C.

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JUNE 16, 2009

Earlier this month, Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue (www.ringrevenue.com) announced that it had raised a round of venture funding. What we did, instead, was enable affiliates, particularly on higher margin or more complex products like insurance, travel, or education--to call someone. Explain your technology?

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets.

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MARCH 21, 2010

The DEMO conference announced the lineup of 65 companies that will share their products and value propositions to the technology community at DEMO Spring 2010 on March 21-23 in Palm Desert, California. They will feature new products and prototypes from industries like Social Media, Mobile, Enterprise, Consumer Technologies and Cloud.

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JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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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. He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers.

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MAY 24, 2021

Silicon Valley and the media industry that surrounds it values youth. innovated in social media advertising and for a variety of reasons wasn’t ultimately successful and went to zero. All four companies were in Los Angeles (or adjacent … Santa Barbara) and our community has now matured and regularly produces billion dollar+ outcomes.

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JANUARY 21, 2010

Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. of Stubbs Alderton, a firm that focused exclusively on early-stage tech, media and game companies in Southern California. We’ve had great experiences with Michael Pfau in Santa Barbara.

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