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OCTOBER 20, 2014

Instead, grab your surfboard and head to UC Santa Barbara. Although UCSB has room to grow with regard to the total number of VC-backed startups it generates, the Santa Barbara region fares well when its relative size is taken into account. Organic Academia. Image Credit: University Of California, Santa Barbara.

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DECEMBER 15, 2014

Santa Barbara-based optical circuit switching technology devleoper CALIENT Technologies said today that it has linked up with a 10-university research organization, to expand the use of optical circuit switching in software defined data center and metro networks.

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AUGUST 7, 2012

Santa Barbara-based music system developer Sonos is continuing to expand out its impressive menu of Internet-linked music services it connects with, today saying it has added Songza as an available service on its multi-room, Internet-connected Sonos music systems. which can be streamed for free. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 7, 2011

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the cloud computing firm backed by Tenaya Capital, DAG Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, and Presidio Ventures, said Tuesdya that it has launched a new product called RightScale myCloud.

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OCTOBER 18, 2013

Santa Barbara-based property management software developer Yardi reported a win Thursday with The Presidio Trust , the federal agency in charge of the Presidio in San Francisco. Financial impact of the customer win was not disclosed. Yardi develops a wide range of real estate investment and property management software products.

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JUNE 8, 2011

Santa Barbara-based Givezooks , a developer of social fundraising software for nonprofits, told its users today that it has launched a new way to allow nonprofits to offer up tickets or sponsorships of their events from Facebook, as well as from their website. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 19, 2016

Life sciences industry organization Biocom , which has been helping to represent Southern Califronia's life science industry for more than 20 years, says it has set up a Los Angeles office, to better help promote the success of LA in the life sciences industry. Biocom has appointed Dina Lozofsky as Executive Director of the new office.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , the developer of cloud computing management software, said Wednesday that it has opened up a new office in Beijing, China. Eucalyptus said it opened the new office due to a "sharp increase in demand" from organizations in Asia for its software over the past year. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 21, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Citrix Online , which operates the GoToMyPC remote desktop software and GoToMeeting web conferencing service, said today that it has linked in a partnership with FranklinCovey. FranklinCovey is a publisher of scheduling, planning, and organization tools. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 3, 2012

According to a survey sent out through a local professional engineering organization this morning, a local college is exploring whether it would be meaningful to the Ventura County community to start an engineering program to service the needs of employers in the area.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

How our VC Firms Like Ours Organizing to Meet the Challenges? But we also organize ourselves around practice areas and have done for the past 7 years and these include: SaaS, Cyber Security, FinTech, Computer Vision, Sustainability, Healthcare, Marketplace businesses, Video Games? That never would have happened 10 years ago.

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JANUARY 25, 2011

Santa Barbara-based Yardi Systems , a developer of real estate and property management software, has sued Texas-based RealPage , a competing provider of software as a service for the apartment and rental market. According to RealPage, Yardi Systems sued its EverGreen Consulting division, which it acquired in 2009. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest , the products review startup headed by former DoubleClick founder Kevin O''Connor, has a new mission in life: fight patent trolls. FindTheBest has accused Lumen View of extortion and violation of the RICO (Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations) Act. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 11, 2010

TEDxSB is an independently organized event in Santa Barbara to showcase and discuss creativity, learning and innovation with an eye on making the world a better place. Saturday, April 17, 2010 -- TEDxSB. Space in a Shrinking World". See [link] (more).

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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! One Source Alliance's mixers give you an opportunity to learn about the OSA organization, too.

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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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JULY 15, 2010

The Goleta Chamber of Commerce, the Santa Barbara Airport and Citrix Online invite area businesses to a forum to discuss the business impacts from the loss of direct flights to San Jose. Many local organizations are concerned that the loss will hurt their business and prospects for long-term growth.

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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. Full Bio: Michael Crandell, CEO and Founder of Right Scale.

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JUNE 19, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Givezooks , an online site focused on charity giving, disclosed this week that the firm has raised $500,000 in a debt financing. Givezooks operates a site which helps nonprofits raise funding for their organizations. Source or details of the financing were not released by the company.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

In my new role as the first executive director for the Alliance for Southern California Innovation, I spent a lot of time outside of my home turf of Pasadena -- visiting innovation nodes such as San Diego, Irvine, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Venice, Santa Monica, and others. What was the biggest news for your organization in 2018?

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MAY 25, 2018

The thing that fuels this success is the amazing organizations and people from around the world who align and support the mission to build businesses. These organizations work tirelessly in guiding and supporting startup teams to success, regardless of their stage of business, as well as continue to encourage innovation across the planet.

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AUGUST 13, 2009

The Department of Energy (DOE) said this week that it has awarded $377M in funding for 46, Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) focused on reducing dependence on imported oil and to curtail greenhouse gas emissions, including a center at the University of California, Santa Barbara , and one at the University of Southern California.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Santa Barbara-based introNetworks, a developer of social networking software for connecting trade show attendees and organizations, has released an update to the firm's software. The firm's primary customers have been conference organizers. IntroNetworks is backed by Adobe. READ MORE>>

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Santa Barbara Foundation. A number of years ago, I was honored to join the Santa Barbara Foundation’s Katherine Harvey Fellows. The organization was created to teach (relatively) young professionals the “art of philanthropy.” We were given $10,000 to distribute to three or four worthy organizations of our choosing.

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JULY 28, 2015

Citrix promised to operate Expertcity as a separate division and maintain its offices in Santa Barbara and it was unclear if other potential acquirers would have been willing to make, and keep, similar commitments. is, “What would our assets be worth as part of your organization?”. VC Funding Alternative.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Citrix Online is expanding into the audio conferencing business, the firm said, and has launched a new service called HiDef Conferencing , focused on allowing customers to manage audio conferences for up to 500 participants.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

Google likes these entries, as evidenced by the significant organic traffic it consistently drives to them. Organic traffic. Organic traffic. I will also increase the amount of video content, including snippets from talks given by my UC Santa Barbara classroom guest speakers. All Time Rank. Ideas Are Worthless.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

As the drama declines and your team loses its sense of entitlement, they will appreciate being part of a compassionate, winning organization. Yet their willingness to celebrate their limitations was a major contributor to the organic, accessible nature of their music. However, they happily shared the spotlight with their bandmates.

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MAY 5, 2016

Two Virtual Organizations That Worked. Dan shared his entrepreneurial insights with my UC Santa Barbara students, including the manner in which he built a virtual organization. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! You can watch Dan’s entire talk here.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Jeff was tweeting about needing help organizing and promoting the upcoming #140conf LA Meetup. My first step in organizing the #140conf LA Meetup was to reach out to my contacts to drum up volunteers, sponsors, venue providers, and attendees. I of course agreed to get involved. They are all rockstars!

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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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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

As noted in Success, Santa Barbara Style , my definition of success includes living where you want to live and making money doing what you love. For many entrepreneurs in Santa Barbara, achieving such success would be much more difficult if it weren’t for the emergence of an innovative airline – Surf Air.

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

One of these bright lights is Santa Barbara-based HG Data - developers of the world's largest competitive-intelligence database. <Note: Our customers are some of the world's largest, most diverse organizations on the planet, such as IBM, HP and Dell. The Power of a Diverse Workforce.

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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. Is it hard to balance your work hard / play hard culture, especially in beautiful Santa Barbara? Cats or dogs?

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APRIL 16, 2012

Large companies write business plans, why of course, that’s the organizing document for a startup. Large companies are organized around execution…so a business plan in a large corporation makes all the sense in the world. I now make my students draw Osterwalder’s canvas as the organizing way to think about your hypothesis.”.

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JULY 7, 2014

University Affiliation – Both Expertcity’s and Computer Motion’s Founders were former Professors at UC Santa Barbara, which greatly facilitated our intern hiring efforts. At Expertcity, we organized off-site field trips to nearby Santa Cruz island where we conducted a variety of team-building exercises.

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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. So, we moved forward from there, and organically grew, creating a boutique agency.

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