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MARCH 15, 2016

Santa Barbara-based Advanced Scientific Concepts has sold off its ASCar Division, which develops LIDAR systems for the automotive industry, to Continental AG , the company said Monday. Advanced Scientific Concepts (ASC) said that Continental plans to mass product flash LIDARs for the commercial automotive industry.

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JUNE 20, 2011

Ryan Howard, the fictional Intern on the TV comedy, The Office. Michael Scott, the fictional head of Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton office, hires an Intern for all the wrong reasons. Due to their lack of practical experience, this delegation/efficiency tradeoff is especially acute with respect to hiring Interns.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Santa Barbara-based property management software developer Yardi reported a win in Singapore yesterday, saying that the Pontiac Land Group is using Yardi's products to manage a portfolio of high end hotels, commercial and retail buildings and other assets in Singapore. Financial details of that win were not announced.

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MARCH 5, 2013

FindTheBest, which is based in Santa Barbara, offers up an online site which compares thousands of different kinds of information, letting users filter and rank everything from electronics products, to dog breeds, to colleges.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

Santa Barbara-based property management software developer Yardi reported a win in the United Kingdom this morning, with boutique property and asset management company Rivenhall Real Estate Limited. Yardi said Rivenhall is using ist Yardi Genesis2 cloud-based property management and accounting product. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Sonos , the developer of multi-room music streaming systems, said today that it is extending the distribution of its products to China. Sonos said it expects its products to arrive in Chinese audio/video stores by the end of November. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 21, 2010

Santa Barbara-based InTouch Technologies , which develops remote, telemedicine products for the healthcare industry, said today that Paul Evans has become General Counsel of the firm. Evans joins the firm from Specialized Health Products International, where he was General Counsel and Vice President of Business Development.

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JULY 12, 2016

Santa Barbara-based enterprise resource planning software developer QAD says this morning that it has signed up a new customer in the UK, Snell Advanced Media (SAM), to manage its business processes company-wide. Financial impact of the win was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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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

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. Jim Semick: I’ve been launching and managing software products for 15 years now, going back to when you and I worked together at Expertcity before it was acquired by Citrix. Semick: They are.

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JANUARY 10, 2012

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the developer of cloud computing management software, said Tuesday that it has linked with a Korean company to distribute its products in Korea. RightScale said that the Korean Internet Neutral eXchange (KINX) will resell its software for managing public, private, and hybrid clouds.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea. We back very early stage companies and work alongside executive teams as their build their teams, launch their products, announce their companies and raise their first downstream capital rounds.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2013

2013 was the year of wearable devices and physical products. I’m thankful for the team at DataSift who have put in more international flights than I think even John Kerry has and has resulting in tremendous growth in revenue, team members and customer success. eCommerce was battered this year.

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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 funding, fellow San Diego cloud computing firm RightScale , with $25.0M in funding.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

They also internalize their professional failures while externalizing their team’s successes. In Mark Suster’s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara , he advised his audience of entrepreneurial students to master two skills: selling and coding. I am not suggesting you spurn product excellence. " [Tweet this quote].

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

This was certainly the case when I invested in a small YouTube video production company called Maker Studios that recently sold to Disney for just shy of $1 billion. Internally at Upfront Ventures we talk about “high consensus” vs. controversial deals with “high conviction.”

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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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JULY 7, 2011

My entrepreneurial students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, often ask my advice regarding their career choices. Internalize Failure, Externalize Success – As noted in Maximize Your Startup Experiences , when you fail, do not blame others. Later it is the salespeople who must generate revenue from the product.

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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?

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JULY 20, 2010

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. The company is about three years old, and we had our first product initially in Japan. Martin used to work for Walden International.

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JANUARY 30, 2012

I generally encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to complete their formal education before joining or creating a startup. Innovation is commonly associated with either the introduction of new products or new features added to existing products. Internalize Michael's advice while channeling George Patton.

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MARCH 27, 2012

In many instances, startups open international offices before their value proposition is fully formed. Kevin O’Connor, Founder and CEO of DoubleClick once told my UC Santa Barbara students (I am paraphrasing), “We went international way too early.

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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". From 35 To 500 Readers.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

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. Internally I was a wreck.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

International is one of the first areas to focus on. Eric Robison: What's led to the growth is an amazing product. I think part of the answer is the product's strength, and the investment we've made in building our online library of courses. Eric Robison: We now have 400 employees. There are many opportunities for us.

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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. How much tension is there internally between "charging" and "giving it away?" "Yes (laughs)! It was a great precursor to being an entrepreneur. ."

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JUNE 19, 2014

Jeff Overall: It all started back in 2011, when I was going to the University of Santa Barbara. How did you go from those prototypes to a real product and manufacturing? So, I started reaching out to the stores that were carrying GoPros, and as you might expect, all of the big companies were hesitant about the product.

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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". From 35 To 500 Readers.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

I review these tenets with my entrepreneurial students at UC Santa Barbara at the beginning of each quarter to reinforce many of the key topics we will cover in the following weeks. Some people are internally focused, and if they reach critical mass, they can tip the whole company.”. The Two Pizza Rule.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

At these companies Mr. Csathy structured and negotiated agreements ranging from multibillion-dollar international joint ventures, to M&A and corporate partnerships valued at hundreds of millions of dollars, to major media content licensing deals, to entertainment talent deals. He began his career as a media, entertainment and IP attorney.

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AUGUST 4, 2014

Greathouse : Let''s start with a question that will be especially helpful for my UC Santa Barbara students. I realize WA''s corporate culture strives to provide an authentic travel experience to your customers, but how do you go beyond marketing jive and turn the platitudes into a truly unique product?

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JANUARY 21, 2010

They get together with a few buddies, bounce around ideas, build some code (sometimes internally, sometimes through contractors), start talking to potential angel investors and then register their company. Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. Many people start companies arse backwards.

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JANUARY 1, 2016

In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. We could all do better – I’m sure.

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JULY 6, 2015

In this post I advocate taking a harder stand on where your product or solution differentiates in the market – even if it means you lose some deals as a result. If you want that kind of service focus I think we’d be a better fit than your internal IT department.” I recently wrote about the three rules of sales.

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