Eric Greenspan

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

As far as technology goes, sure, I’ll be using my knowledge and skills to develop a business around technology and the process of producing our product uses some rather savvy science, so its not as big of a stretch as it might appear. The Macaw Coffee factory in Santa Barbara, Honduras. operations and sales.

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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. We provide analytics on the velocity of sales across their channels.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

A Santa Barbara based company, Milo Sensors, is tackling this problem via a wearable that constantly alerts your smartphone of your blood alcohol level. Many of the companies that are spawned at the University emerge from the Technology Management Program , but Milo is an exception. I love origin stories.

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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. NastyGal is just one of a number of fashion-meets-technology startups to emerge in Los Angeles, which. Edmunds was also one of the companies. Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin.

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DECEMBER 15, 2015

Photo courtesy of Santa Barbara Independent’s recent Techtopia Issue. Select the real software product from this list. Open-architected, workforce-neutral, productivity assimilator. All of these “products” were created with a few clicks of a buzzword generator. They care about finding solutions to their problems.”

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. Almost nobody believed and now look at it. Online education.

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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. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? Happy Holidays!

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. We automatically add tracking and point those product references to e-commerce merchants.

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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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MAY 24, 2021

Think about how much more value was created for all these constituencies (and society) by Snap staying independent vs. Instagram selling to Facebook.  —  @jasonlk How the Long Game Has Benefitted Upfront I was thinking about it this morning in particular and thinking about my own personal investment history.

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APRIL 4, 2013

We spoke with co-founder Brenton Sullivan about the company''s platform, and how it''s hoping to transform the athletic recruiting process. We''ve been wildly successful in helping junior college players find four year schools, and helping high school athletes get offers to colleges they''d never known about otherwise.

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JULY 21, 2016

Zingle, a Carlsbad, CA-based tech startup targeting the service industry and consumer-facing businesses with its messaging app technology, has raised $3 million in venture capital, according to a regulatory filing earlier this month. or forward the query to an appropriate hotel staffer to respond. Zingle (@ZingleMe) July 14, 2016.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The following guest post is from some of my former UC Santa Barbara students. Each week he brought in passionate and successful entrepreneurs to speak to his students and give advice about the different facets of creating a startup. Fall quarter of Sr.

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JULY 20, 2010

We thought we'd catch back up with Winston to hear about the Morphlabs. 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. earlier this year, and then got it funded, raising about $5.5

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. I was very excited by how inclusion was such a priority in the space, Startup of the Year wanted to work with us to make sure the event reflected our community ,” said Denayja Reese, Partnerships and Production Manager of BlackTech Week.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

We all now visit UGC sites to learn about products & services before we use them. I’ve been thinking a lot about this over the past two years and bending the ears of any entrepreneur who will humor me to hear what I think the solution needs to look like. .&# I was thinking about the St. And there you have it.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Other large deals include Santa Barbara-based CytomX , with a $30.0M In Orange County, the biggest deals were for Irvine-based WaterHealth International , a developer of water purification products with $22.1M raised, and Irvine-based Brand Affinity Technologies , a. in funding.

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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’ve learned much about French history as a result. Santa Barbara schools just approved a $700,000 purchase of iPads for its students. About my company(s): [link]. Schools in the U.S.A. I took four years of French.

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DECEMBER 26, 2014

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. Sonos Playbar.

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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. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2.

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JANUARY 30, 2012

I generally encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to complete their formal education before joining or creating a startup. Innovations Are More Than Technological Features. "Our "Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships."

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Datapop (www.datapop.com) announced a Series A funding for the startup, which is developing search advertising products which better tune ads to improve click throughs. We caught up with Jason Lehmbeck , one of the firm's founders, to hear more about the company. Talk a bit about your funding round?

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

The group--which was started by Richard Koffler and John Morris , two well known investors in Los Angeles--has been trying to help connect CEOs with interesting university and other technology projects. To better understand what they're trying to do, we spoke with both Richard and John about the group. Thanks for the time today.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

After DoubleClick, Kevin eventually settled down in Santa Barbara, which is where his newest startup-- FindTheBest.com (www.findthebest.com) is headquartered. We caught up with Kevin to hear what FindTheBest is all about, and why he decided to get back into the startup game. What's FindTheBest all about?

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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’ve learned much about French history as a result. Santa Barbara schools just approved a $700,000 purchase of iPads for its students. Schools in the U.S.A. require the teaching of a foreign language. 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’ve learned much about French history as a result. Santa Barbara schools just approved a $700,000 purchase of iPads for its students. Schools in the U.S.A. require the teaching of a foreign language. This, I applaud.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. We caught up with Skyler to hear about HeyTutor, which already has 25 employees and is growing rapidly. HeyTutor is about connecting people hyper-locally. The second part, is our matching technology. What is HeyTutor?

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AUGUST 18, 2010

It’s as good as it gets in personal productivity / life reflection. As individuals we have choices about how we spend our time. 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. I’m not. It’s hard to hide.

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APRIL 16, 2012

No matter how much you think you know about Steve’s lean startup philosophy, Eric Ries’ contributions to the movement, or the methodologies by which companies have put lean startup tenets into practice, I am confident you will be enlightened and entertained by Steve’s frank and insightful remarks. . Preaching What You Live.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

I gave this talk was given to perspective and current UC Santa Barbara students, hence my references to UCSB’s Technology Management Program (TMP). You may want to run the video in the background and listen to it while you remain otherwise productive. Wealth Creation Is Not About Greed.

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JULY 14, 2011

This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. 9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. Is there a downside to Accountability?

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JANUARY 22, 2013

This was a situation where we had the opportunity to take on funding, at a point where we could utilize it to scale our technology platform, and to increase our global reach and expand our content, beyond what we'd do normally. Eric Robison: What's led to the growth is an amazing product. Why did you decide to take investment now?

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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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OCTOBER 10, 2008

Most people have had the unfortunate experience of losing a portable electronic item -- a cell phone, iPod, or some other device -- while out and about. James Tamplin and Andrew Lee are the co-founders of the company, and sat down with us last week to talk about the company's service, and how it came about.

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APRIL 1, 2013

You can watch Marten tell his entertaining story in the following 15-minute excerpt from his UC Santa Barbara talk. According to Marten, "Suddenly, when we were building our business and we thought that this very vital component of our product would be part of us, suddenly it was owned by one of our competitors. Share and Enjoy.

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APRIL 25, 2011

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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JUNE 15, 2011

We caught up with CEO Eric Frankel this week to talk about the firm, his decision to go from the comfortable world of Hollywood as President of Warner Bros Domestic Television Distribution, to a startup, how the firm is using the cloud to power it service, as well as where the firm is going next. How did the company come about?

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