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Create An Industry Alliance Entrepreneurs: Need Friends On The Startup Playground

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In early December of 1818, Jose de la Guerra devised a brilliant plan to thwart the French pirate Hippolyte de Bouchard who was lurking off the coast of Santa Barbara, contemplating an attack. By centering our alliances around our products and not our company, each group was comprised of complimentary partners.

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Interview with Andrew Schydlowsky, TrackStreet: Brand Protection Using AI

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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. Andrew Schydlowsky: I'm a serial entrepreneur.

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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

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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. And of course many more of us are gluten intolerant or want to live gluten-reduced lives.

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How To Vet Startup Opportunities – Quit Your Day Job With Confidence

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As a Professor of Practice in Entrepreneurship at UC Santa Barbara , students ask me dozens of times each quarter, “What do you think of my idea?” Without question, the book is geared to first-time entrepreneurs, as evidenced by the time taken to define basic terms (e.g., A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.

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Brian Coryat, ValueClick Founder And Internet Pioneer: Startups Should Wing It

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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. I mean, that''s what entrepreneurs do every day. But that''s what entrepreneurs do everyday. There''s no business category.

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Making the Internet Smarter at Helping Us

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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. Why can’t I have it? She’s the GRP food ninja.

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Do you Suffer from the Urgency Addiction? It’s More Common Than you Think

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It’s as good as it gets in personal productivity / life reflection. 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. That’s why productivity wasn’t tough for me as a CEO. I’m not. I couldn’t.

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