socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2019

Kevin sold his last company, Santa Barbara-based Graphiq, in July of 2017 to Amazon, but has a long history of successful companies, including founding DoubleClick. We're looking for companies that have already brought a product to market, with $500,000 to a million dollars in revenues in ARR. It's so obvious and so simple.

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socalTECH

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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Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Sales 140

socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

In the startup world, one of the most difficult journeys to market is by companies who are taking basic scientific advances and technologies originally developed at universities, and taking them all the way to use in the commercial world. Remind our readers, for those who aren't familiar with your company, what your products are all about?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2014

Here are five of the gifts--all from Southern California high tech companies--we wish we could have gotten wrapped in a present this year. 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.

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High Tech Playa Del Rey Belkin Santa Barbara 170

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. 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.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Ice Energy (www.ice-energy.com) has quietly been working away at developing energy storage systems to help smooth out the demand for energy on the nation's power grid. Can you talk about your technology? Mike Hopkins: As you know, we've got an energy storage product. megawatts of energy.

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Southern California Technical Review Demand Outsource Development 100

socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

That''s how recruiting works now, and continues to work with our technology. Why is technology important here? Coaches are looking to use technology more efficiently, so they can connect in a more effective manner with the people they want to, but still have the rules around our industry and how the industry operates.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

28 from 7pm-10pm in Santa Monica. Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. Csathy was President and CEO of Sorenson Media, Inc.,

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Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. Our approach is often additive to all parties, resulting in ongoing, productive relationships. billion).

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

We are not therapists, but we know technology so we did the best we could. Since that day, we have done over 30 seminars all over Southern California and we have partnered with the California PTA and Verizon to expand our presence further. He replied laughing, “Not anymore!&# We’ve yet been turned down.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

This is stuff I tell people verbally at least twice / month so I’m glad to finally get it into written format. When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

In high school, he founded Solar Devices, a firm that sold plans and kits for solar energy products. In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. which made a natural language product for Lotus 1-2-3 called HAL. Bill received his B.S.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. If you’d like to see some of the best technologies and meet some of the brightest minds in beautiful Southern California, SIGN UP NOW. Event Details.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Baghdasarian was co-founder of Monterey Networks, which was sold to Cisco Systems back in 1999, has been an active angel investor in Southern California. We've basically taken advantage of all the new technology out there--especially, the web-based service model. Zareh Baghdasarian is the CEO of 15desks (www.15desks.com),

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. They get involved in hard product decisions. We could all do better – I’m sure. Conviction.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. We have strong theses in key technology areas. I recently wrote about the three rules of sales. Why Buy Anything ? VCs all say: We are entrepreneur friendly.

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