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FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Soraa , the UC Santa Barbara spinout funded by Khosla Ventures, NEA, and NGEN Partners, has unveiled its first product, a new LED lighting lamp. Soraa, which was started in Goleta, said its Soraa LED MR16 lamp is intended as a replacement for traditional, halogen MR16 bulbs. Soraa is manufacturing its products in Fremont.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

Santa Barbara-based Sonos is getting some additional competition from Google's Nest , as Google announced new, whole-home music features to its products. Google said the new features will start rolling out to all Nest Hub, Nest Hub Max and other compatible Assistant-enabled Smart Displays today. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 30, 2018

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Elizabeth Cholawsky , the new CEO of Santa Barbara-based HG Data (www.hgdata.com), which develops software which helps marketers and salespeople understand the "technology stack" of their potential customers and prospects. How'd you end up at HG Data? So, I cam on board.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Jason is another local Santa Barbara CEO and we had a great chat about Make It Work, Ring Revenue, Affiliate Marketing and life in SB. The focus of this post is Commission Junction, as we are just about to get started with them. I remember when they started in a building I once thought to lease for my 2nd company Push.

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AUGUST 1, 2018

Apeel is already supplying two products--one for extending the shelf life of avocados, the other of citrus--on products which have been shipping at Costco and Harps Food Stores since June. As part of the funding, Apeel said it will be growing its team in Santa Barbara, out of a 105,000 square-foot facility in Santa Barbara.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

Santa Barbara-based Sonos has walked back plans it had to essentially force its users with older Sonos devices to either "brick" and upgrade those devices, or to be locked out from any further updates of software--even on their newest equipment.

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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. Just this past September was a year with Amazon, when I left, and we started investing in September under the new name, ScOp Venture Capital.

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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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JUNE 15, 2012

UK-based Coull , a developer of technology which lets publishers and advertisers tag video products within videos, has just signed Under Armour, as the firm's acquisition of Santa Barbara-based online media agency RevUpNet starts to pay dividends.

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MARCH 11, 2014

Santa Barbara-based wireless speaker maker Sonos said Monday that it will start "forward-publishing" its patent applications, making the text of those patents available to the public far before they normally would be, saying it wants to "accelerate innovation".

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OCTOBER 14, 2014

Santa Barbara-based whole home music system developer Sonos said Tuesday that it has rolled out a new product, the Boost , which helps provide a better wireless network for the company''s music system.

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AUGUST 11, 2015

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest , which got its start offering up lists and ways to compare the merits of a myriad of different things (products, colleges, you name it), has rebranded itself as Graphiq , and has refocused on the visual tools behind FindTheBest's original service.

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DECEMBER 7, 2011

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest.com , the online products and information comparison site started by former DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor, has made a major upgrade to the site today, shifting the site into a more interactive, visual display.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Santa Barbara-based whole home audio system developer Sonos is making it possible for more people to experience it whole home sound systems in person, with a new deal with home furnishings chain West Elm , the two said on Thursday. Financial details of the partnership were not announced.

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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. Greathouse: We’ve known each other for a long time but let’s start with the basics for my readers. I have always worked on early stage products. Semick: They are.

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Eric Greenspan

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

After starting my career with IBM and building three successful IT companies, I’ve decided to follow my true passion. The Macaw Coffee factory in Santa Barbara, Honduras. I also manage product development, business development and of course, IT. are run out of my home town in Santa Barbara, California.

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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. It allows us to start peeling the onion.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Have you ever had a couple of drinks, started to feel a mild buzz and wondered if you’re over the legal limit? A Santa Barbara based company, Milo Sensors, is tackling this problem via a wearable that constantly alerts your smartphone of your blood alcohol level. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes.

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MARCH 8, 2011

Santa Barbara-based Sonos , the developer of the user friendly, multi-room, wireless music systems, said today that it has connected up the MOG music service to its products. Like the other streaming music services, Sonos users also need to have an account with MOG, which starts at $9.99 READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Citrix Online has entered into the online, interactive training market with the launch of a new product, the firm announced this morning. Citrix said its new Citrix GoToTraining product is targeted at businesses who want to host interactive training sessions for participants. READ MORE>>.

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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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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The following guest post is from some of my former UC Santa Barbara students. These courses all proved to be serious influences on turning the dream of starting their own company into a reality. The biggest motivator for starting brightblu was John Greathouse’s Entrepreneurship class. Fall quarter of Sr.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. So while new product introductions are exciting, often there is a delay until we see meaningful benefit to everyday life.

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

How they knew anything about us is beyond me, but that is where we got started. Your BBB has formed a strategic alliance to help save you money in your everyday costs starting immediately. First Data of Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, CA 93108. I had no choice. This amounts to more than $4000.00

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JANUARY 18, 2012

As part of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, serial entrepreneur and noted venture capitalist Mark Suster recently shared his advice with a large crowd of emerging entrepreneurs. Start – It’s The Only Way You Will Know. I started at 31. Start Lean. I started with three.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The most connected and high-potential founders start with wads of cash. 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. The legends of Silicon Valley?—?two two founders in a garage?—?(HP

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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. The firm--which was started in the quiet and.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

I read Les Miserables in French and I’ve seen the theater production over 20 times. I have a son that is a junior in high school and another that just started preschool. He will use it to control the air conditioner in his home, his pool heater, start his car and pay his bills. Schools in the U.S.A. This, I applaud.

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JUNE 25, 2012

Seth began his entrepreneurial career when he dropped out of the University of California, Santa Barbara at 19 years old to start a clothing company, which he eventually built into a national line of denim products featured at Nordstrom, Macy’s and Neiman Marcus.

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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. This was when GoPro was just getting started, and becoming real popular. After we started coming back and looking at all of the videos we were shooting with the GoPro, it was horrible--it was all overexposed.

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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. In addition to giving their employers 110% of their energy, I encourage these emerging entrepreneurs to engage in small, Mini-ventures on the side, rather than starting a fulltime venture from scratch.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

I read Les Miserables in French and I’ve seen the theater production over 20 times. I have a son that is a junior in high school and another that just started preschool. He will use it to control the air conditioner in his home, his pool heater, start his car and pay his bills. Schools in the U.S.A. This, I applaud.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

I read Les Miserables in French and I’ve seen the theater production over 20 times. I have a son that is a junior in high school and another that just started preschool. He will use it to control the air conditioner in his home, his pool heater, start his car and pay his bills. Schools in the U.S.A. This, I applaud.

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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 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. That’s what we’ve started to tackle and the mission RightScale is on. 9) The story of how you started RightScale is classic.

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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? A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes.

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MAY 5, 2016

Thus, even though it is enticing to start a company based with a remote working structure, it is often a challenge to maintain a decentralized approach as a company expands beyond its founding team. The bottom line is that the TaxJar team is happy - and because we're happy, we're incredibly productive.”. “We No venture capital.”.

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