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OCTOBER 7, 2011

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest --the online products comparison site headed by former DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Conner--said this week that it has launched a comprehensive smartphone comparison feature on the service.

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JULY 20, 2011

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest , the online comparison engine site run by former DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor, has raised another $4M in funding, the firm said today. FindTheBest offers up a web site which compares different products, services, and other items, via lists which can be sorted and filtered.

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DECEMBER 15, 2011

In an extension of the site's syndication strategy, Santa Barbara-based startup FindTheBest said yesterday that it has partnered with GreatCollegeAdvice.com to power a college comparisons engine for the site. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 3, 2011

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest.com , the online search and ranking site headed by former DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor, is launching a new "badge" program on the site Wednesday, which it says will help show the best products and services rated by its experts. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest , the online comparison engine site run by former DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor, said Thursday that it has launched a new "Smart Badge" program aimed at companies with products and services. FindTheBest is venture backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

ALG is based in Santa Barbara, where it will continue to be headquartered. As part of the deal, the two also said that DealerTrack will also be granted a perpetual, royalty free license to certain ALG intellectual property and data for use in its products and services.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Santa Barbara-based Yardi Systems announced Tuesday afternoon that it has acquired San Diego Real Estate Electronic Publishing Company (REEPCO) , which operates InternetCrusade, an online site focused on training real estate professionals, and RealTown, an online real estate community. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

company operates a number of content-focused sites, including LIVESTRONG, eHOW, Cracked, and a domain name registration business, eNOM. positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. range of software products, and which has offices in Calabasas and Santa Barbara. Demand Media.

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MAY 13, 2010

Santa Barbara-based RightSignature , the electronic signature site run by Daryl Bernstein, announced today that it is powering a new electronic signature solution for Farmers Insurance Claims. Farmers said it initially launched the product in December of 2009 in three states, and has now rolled it out to a total of 16 states.

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Then, they use the old fashioned scare tactic that if you don’t become a member, people will not be able to find you on their site and will become concerned about doing business with an unaccredited firm. First Data of Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This amounts to more than $4000.00

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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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DECEMBER 22, 2011

In addition, I was honored to speak with such notable entrepreneurs as: Kevin O’Connor (Founder DoubleClick and FindTheBest), Brad Feld (Founder TechStars, Partner The Foundry Group), Marten Mickos (Founder MySQL and CEO of Eucalyptus Systems) and Len Short (CMO, (Product) RED, AOL and Charles Schwab). Top Ten infoChachkie Entries Of 2011.

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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. At that time, a typically inferior Microsoft remote access product(NetMeeting), was bundled with every copy of Microsoft Office. but the more you can avoid that, the better.".

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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. He quickly realized the power of the Internet when he came across a relatively obscure site, called Yahoo! a) cool site of the day (feature).

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

We all now visit UGC sites to learn about products & services before we use them. My Wish List: I want at least three slices for any UGC sites. A few years ago I planned an outing to Santa Barbara for my Dad’s 70th birthday. The signal-to-noise ratio is getting out of hand. And there you have it.

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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.

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MARCH 24, 2016

Fanstasy sports sites DraftKings’ and FanDuel’s popularity has spurred a new-breed of political betting sites. Unlike sites of the past that were deemed illegal, the current crop of election sites appear to well positioned to exploit the unprecedented focus Americans are applying to the 2016 election cycle.

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AUGUST 8, 2016

I ended up really relating to the nuance and intricacies of product supply and customer demand. As a UC Santa Barbara alum, do you have any advice for my UCSB students who desire to break into the fashion industry? Muther: We were very careful when launching our first eCommerce site.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Eucalyptus’ underlying technology was developed at UC Santa Barbara. They have a number of mini-websites that they run for various products and campaigns and they cannot know which of those sites will need resources at any given point. They just grab the product. A good example is the shoemaker Puma.

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APRIL 4, 2013

We''re not the company which tells athletes to jump on our site, and we''ll spam you to schools and find you a place. They were very small shcools--he went to Cate, which is inland from Ventura in the Santa Barbara area, and I went to The Thacher School, and we both ended up at the University of Southern California.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

After DoubleClick, Kevin eventually settled down in Santa Barbara, which is where his newest startup-- FindTheBest.com (www.findthebest.com) is headquartered. Kevin O'Connor: We're an objective comparison engine for the more complex products and services. What's FindTheBest all about? I'm sure you've seen them all over.

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OCTOBER 10, 2008

Santa Barbara-based SendMeHome (www.sendmehome.com) is looking to solve that problem, with a free service to print out labels which attach to your item, and where you can register items in case they are lost. How do people go about using the site? How do you get those items back? I always wanted to start a company. Good luck!

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JULY 21, 2016

As noted in What’s Real About Shark Tank , the show can give consumer product companies a significant marketing and revenue boost, as it did for one of my former students, Jeff Overall, Founder of PolarPro. A number of my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students initially model their investment pitches on the show's contrived format.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 20, 2011

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

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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. If improperly administered, meetings become counter-productive, especially as an organization grows beyond its initial startup phase.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2013

You can watch Sarah tell her compelling story in the following 15-minute excerpt from her recent UC Santa Barbara talk. I used to get up at 5:00 in the morning with my father and go to construction sites. After leaving Current, Sarah did a stint as the Director of Distribution for a television production company.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

We are currently scheduling a District-wide event in Santa Barbara for all parents of students in elementary and middle schools. Products like Net Nanny and SpectorPro can block or monitor your children’s access to the Internet. For more information about this event or Poogling in general, visit the web site.

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JUNE 16, 2009

Earlier this month, Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue (www.ringrevenue.com) announced that it had raised a round of venture funding. The way it works today, is a web site might have an affiliate link, people looking for a mortgage or refi will input their info, and hit submit. Explain your technology?

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I'm down here probably three or four days a week on average, and we're trying to be active, and pick off what we think are going to be the best deals here, from Santa Barbara down to San Diego. We're helping the entrepreneur, leveraging our network, introducing them to people, and helping them think about new products.

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InfoChachkie

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? but we don''t.

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