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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

socalTECH

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. The majority of our time is now spent online. They're doing that billions of times a day.

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Why You Should Hire A Gaggle Of Interns At Your Startup

InfoChachkie

At the same time, most startups are small enough that the interns are able to interface with people that actually have expertise, so they gain real-world skills while performing meaningful work." . In several cases, we eventually productized summer intern projects, including a mobile version of GoToMyPC which we called PocketView.

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The Newest Source Of Startup Funding – The Sharing Economy

InfoChachkie

The ability for people to turn their time, residences, cars and other personal assets into viable income streams is revising the traditional definition of "employment.". Have time on your lunch hour to run some errands? Thus, being able to episodically work, when I have the energy and the time, is a great relief.".

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Better Business Bureau? For who?

Eric Greenspan

First Data of Santa Barbara has offered to extend below market rates to current accredited businesses like yours – again, just like they did for your BBB. I am not just some salesman from another middleman company offering you some illusion or miniscule amount of savings that isn’t worth your time. First Data of Santa Barbara.

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

InfoChachkie

Although many are entertaining, most fail to provide entrepreneurs with a sufficient return on their time investment. 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. No doubt, he did.

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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. Additional thoughts below: Confidence.