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UCSB Tops Harvard & Wharton In Startup Wars

InfoChachkie

Instead, grab your surfboard and head to UC Santa Barbara. Although UCSB has room to grow with regard to the total number of VC-backed startups it generates, the Santa Barbara region fares well when its relative size is taken into account. This allowed the curriculum to efficiently find its product / market fit.

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Five Startup Tips From Bill Gates

InfoChachkie

. "The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. 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.

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Interview with Kos Galatsis, Carbonics

socalTECH

The company just announced its first product, so we thought it would be interesting to follow up with Kos on his progress bringing the company's technology to market. Remind our readers, for those who aren't familiar with your company, what your products are all about? So those resources have been fantastic.

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You Can’t Teach People To Be Entrepreneurs, But Entrepreneurs Can Be Taught

InfoChachkie

Despite the fact that I teach entrepreneurship at UC Santa Barbara , I do not believe that entrepreneurs are created in classrooms. I treat each of my classes as a product that the students are paying a lot of money to consume. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.

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Interview with Skyler Lucci, HeyTutor

socalTECH

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. In terms of where we offer to our customers, we have 250 different areas, from early childhood to studying for an MCAT or the bar. We have product, people, and have our foundation set. Finally, what's next for the company?

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Take On Guy Kawasaki’s Enchantment

InfoChachkie

If you are a leader at a startup and you are reading a business book, you are not closing customers, raising capital, improving your product, or spending time with your loved ones. I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years.

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Do you Suffer from the Urgency Addiction? It’s More Common Than you Think

Both Sides of the Table

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. I’m not. So I always performed.

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