InfoChachkie
APRIL 16, 2012
By conceptualizing, selling, gathering feedback and then developing a product, startups achieve success more quickly and economically. This was exactly the approach Steve took when he self-published Four Steps via Café Press, at the behest of his then star pupil, Eric Ries , Co-Founder of IMVU and the author of The Lean Startup.
InfoChachkie
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. Getting press is sales. The reality is, most startups do not work.
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InfoChachkie
APRIL 1, 2013
You can watch Marten tell his entertaining story in the following 15-minute excerpt from his UC Santa Barbara talk. According to Marten, "Suddenly, when we were building our business and we thought that this very vital component of our product would be part of us, suddenly it was owned by one of our competitors.
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. But deep down I personally yearn for bigger ideas and more profound products.
InfoChachkie
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?
InfoChachkie
MARCH 27, 2012
Kevin O’Connor, Founder and CEO of DoubleClick once told my UC Santa Barbara students (I am paraphrasing), “We went international way too early. John made it clear to Brian that the Beatles’ role was to make the product and tend to the company’s operations.
InfoChachkie
JUNE 3, 2013
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. Putting their expensive educations to good use, they aptly named their novelty product a "MouseDriver". From 35 To 500 Readers. crawl(ing) up.".
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