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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Santa Barbara-based Phone Halo , the developer of devices which help people track such things as their wallet, remote control, or more using their smartphone, said it is developing a product which will help people keep track of their eyeglasses. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Later today I’m presenting at the annual Rincon Ventures Summit in Santa Barbara. I speak privately a lot about getting an exit at a startup. I haven’t spoken publicly about it much but since Rincon asked – I agreed. They say the same about VC. Startup Exits: A Primer from msuster. Often it does.

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JUNE 18, 2013

FindTheCompany , a new business research site started by DoubleClick co-founder Kevin O''Connor, launched out of beta today, saying that it has created an online resource to let users check on the reputation of a business before buying products and services, and to learn more about companies such as balance sheets, income statements, and more.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We operate at scale and speed unprecedented in human history.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 So in our earliest stages we’re about 70% seed and 30% pre-seed. dot-com bonanza.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Santa Barbara-based 15desks , a developer of software-as-a-service for educators, said this morning that the firm has launched a new product for course management. The firm said it is privately funded, and first launched in 2007 at the University of Santa Barbara.

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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. Curious to learn more about the pain and joys of bootstrapping a business, I sat down with Jim Semick, the company’s Co-Founder and Chief Strategist. Semick: They are.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. We provide analytics on the velocity of sales across their channels.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Photo courtesy of Santa Barbara Independent’s recent Techtopia Issue. Select the real software product from this list. Open-architected, workforce-neutral, productivity assimilator. All of these “products” were created with a few clicks of a buzzword generator. They care about finding solutions to their problems.”

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

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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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

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. range of software products, and which has offices in Calabasas and Santa Barbara. That tells you a lot about the culture and what the future might bring."

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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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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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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. Almost nobody believed and now look at it. Online education.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Tracy''s frank, pragmatic and somewhat controversial comments were presented as part of UC Santa Barbara''s Distinguished Lecture Series. Tracy addressed the issue of competition head on, telling the largely student audience, "As I started to think about launching Tradesy, I looked around and there was a lot of competition but.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

We all now visit UGC sites to learn about products & services before we use them. I’ve been thinking a lot about this over the past two years and bending the ears of any entrepreneur who will humor me to hear what I think the solution needs to look like. .&# I was thinking about the St. And there you have it.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 7, 2014

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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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The following guest post is from some of my former UC Santa Barbara students. Each week he brought in passionate and successful entrepreneurs to speak to his students and give advice about the different facets of creating a startup. Fall quarter of Sr.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Brian Coryat, Founder and CEO of Local Market Launch and former Founder and CEO of ValueClick (NASDAQ: VCLK) recently winged his talk at UC Santa Barbara''s Distinguished Lecture Series. But the more I started to think about it, I said, well, why the hell not? I can have my employee do it in about two hours.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

I was very excited by how inclusion was such a priority in the space, Startup of the Year wanted to work with us to make sure the event reflected our community ,” said Denayja Reese, Partnerships and Production Manager of BlackTech Week. Their investor bootcamps help educate new investors about due diligence, valuation, and more.

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APRIL 4, 2013

We spoke with co-founder Brenton Sullivan about the company''s platform, and how it''s hoping to transform the athletic recruiting process. We''ve been wildly successful in helping junior college players find four year schools, and helping high school athletes get offers to colleges they''d never known about otherwise.

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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.

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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 new feature maps out members of a social network on a browseable world map, with additional information about members shown via a pop up box.

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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 in funding raised; followed by Otonomy , a San Diego maker of treatments for hearing disorders, which raised $38.5M.

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JULY 20, 2010

We thought we'd catch back up with Winston to hear about the Morphlabs. Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara. earlier this year, and then got it funded, raising about $5.5

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InfoChachkie

JULY 28, 2014

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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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2014

The Sonos Playbar --created by Santa Barbara-based Sonos --is the ultimate sound accessory for the music and theater lover, and is particularly designed for use with your HDTV. Sonos Playbar.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

The company just announced its first product, so we thought it would be interesting to follow up with Kos on his progress bringing the company's technology to market. Remind our readers, for those who aren't familiar with your company, what your products are all about? So those resources have been fantastic.

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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". an email) to about 35 people.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 11, 2013

These varied responsibilities are analogous to those of a startup CEO, as movie production crews are essentially temporary ventures. I recently had a chance to observe an intimate conversation between Leonard Maltin and Ben Affleck at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, where Mr. Affleck was honored with the festival's "Modern Master" award.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

For instance, I might show a logo of Computer Motion, GoToMeeting, Citrix, UC Santa Barbara and Rincon Venture Partners on my first slide as a means of depicting my past and current professional affiliations. We were talking about an upcoming conference when he declared, "I hate PowerPoint. What's Your Story? Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

I generally encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to complete their formal education before joining or creating a startup. "Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships." Innovations Are More Than Technological Features. "Our " [Tweet this quote].

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InfoChachkie

MAY 12, 2011

" 6) You are the only person I have ever met who was Class President of both their undergraduate (UC Santa Barbara) and their graduate (Pepperdine) schools. If somebody was passionate about an idea and wanted to be an entrepreneur, my advice would not be to go to business school, just start doing what you’ve got to do.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2013

2013 was the year of wearable devices and physical products. So with the wild ride of 2013 I had thoughts about what made me thankful this year. Meanwhile while social networking was white hot 3 years ago it is now persona non grata unless your user numbers are insane. eCommerce was battered this year.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

It’s as good as it gets in personal productivity / life reflection. As individuals we have choices about how we spend our time. I know that would be surprising to many readers since keeping a blog somehow convinces people that I’m a time management or productivity ninja. I’m not. It’s hard to hide.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2011

I recently spoke with an unhappy early-stage investor who described the demise of a life sciences startup which was moved from Santa Barbara to San Diego at the behest of a large venture firm. I guess no one told him about the medical startups that were purchased by Medtronic, Linvatec, Storz, Mentor, etc.,

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InfoChachkie

JULY 7, 2011

My entrepreneurial students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, often ask my advice regarding their career choices. Do Not Worry About What You Will Earn – Whenever you are starting a new career (no matter your age or working history), your most important consideration should be, "How much will I learn?

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In my capacity as a Professor of Practice at UC Santa Barbara , I was asked by the Student Association if I would consider interviewing rapper, fashion designer and entrepreneur Tyler The Creator. Get Out – Tyler was asked about his hometown of Hawthorne, California and he responded, “<expletive> Hawthorne.

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