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Success, Santa Barbara Style: Patagonian Sexwax With A Side Order of UGGS

InfoChachkie

Six outstanding entrepreneurs have created this sweet flavor of success in one of the most beautiful places on earth – Santa Barbara, California. Santa Barbara has become a high-tech startup mecca, rivaling cities many times its size. According to Doug, “ productivity fell dramatically whenever the surf was up.”.

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Interview with Jordan Glazier, Wildfire Systems

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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. Those references drive trillions of dollars of commerce. Wildlink is backed by Mucker Capital.

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Better Business Bureau? For who?

Eric Greenspan

Their tactic is to first incent a merchant by sharing data on how many hits their website gets from people inquiring about their particular type of business. How they knew anything about us is beyond me, but that is where we got started. First Data of Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, CA 93108. I had no choice.

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Why You Should Hire A Gaggle Of Interns At Your Startup

InfoChachkie

In several cases, we eventually productized summer intern projects, including a mobile version of GoToMyPC which we called PocketView. Working on real-world projects will shorten the interns’ learning curve, thereby ensuring they will reach an acceptable level of productivity soon after being hired full-time. Share and Enjoy.

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The Newest Source Of Startup Funding – The Sharing Economy

InfoChachkie

Sharing While Caring About Your Venture. In contrast, the sharing economy affords entrepreneurs the flexibility to work on their ventures during their peak hours of productivity while generating working capital from multiple sources. I won''t tweet a photo of a killer burrito I am about to devour - just startup stuff.

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Take On Guy Kawasaki’s Enchantment

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If you are a leader at a startup and you are reading a business book, you are not closing customers, raising capital, improving your product, or spending time with your loved ones. I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years.

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Entrepreneurs Need The Confidence, Courage And Conviction To Be Unreasonable

InfoChachkie

I gave this talk was given to perspective and current UC Santa Barbara students, hence my references to UCSB’s Technology Management Program (TMP). You may want to run the video in the background and listen to it while you remain otherwise productive. Wealth Creation Is Not About Greed.