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With Greathouse Comes Great Responsibility

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The following guest post is from some of my former UC Santa Barbara students. Along with bringing in a hall of fame cast of serial entrepreneur speakers, Professor Greathouse assigned his students weekly projects where his students would create their own venture and produce an executive summary. Fall quarter of Sr.

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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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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

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This was certainly the case when I invested in a small YouTube video production company called Maker Studios that recently sold to Disney for just shy of $1 billion. The first product tests for gluten and is especially targeted at people with Celiac’s disease which affects 1% of the population meaning millions of people.

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Interview: Jason Nazar of Docstoc

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If you prefer to read a summary of Jason’s responses, they are included below. " 6) You are the only person I have ever met who was Class President of both their undergraduate (UC Santa Barbara) and their graduate (Pepperdine) schools. If you have questions for Jason, please include them in the comments section.

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Why Taking Some Risks in the Sales Process Can Improve Results

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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. But we do 50% of our deals in Southern California from San Diego to Santa Barbara and we think that’s part of what makes us special. Why Buy Anything ?

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