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Streamlining The Sports Recruiting Process with FieldLevel

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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. We took that feedback, and developed it into a really streamlined, minimal viable product. How''d you get over that hurdle?

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Three Factors Which Intoxicate Venture Capitalists - Why Your Startup Will (Probably) Not Raise Venture Capital Funding

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I recently spoke with an unhappy early-stage investor who described the demise of a life sciences startup which was moved from Santa Barbara to San Diego at the behest of a large venture firm. all of which continue to thrive in Santa Barbara to this day. Thanks Mr. Big Firm VC.

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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

InfoChachkie

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. crawl(ing) up.".

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Sorry Professor, The American Dream Is Not Dead

InfoChachkie

The Professor''s argument impacted me viscerally, as I have a number of students from various nationalities in my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial classes. I realize it is an easy statistic to measure, but it is a pretty thin slice of data from which to boldly proclaim that, "the American Dream is an Illusion.".

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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

InfoChachkie

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. crawl(ing) up.".

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

Both Sides of the Table

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. They get involved in hard product decisions.

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