socalTECH

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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InfoChachkie

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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socalTECH

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 thing, is tools. What is HeyTutor? It's the hub.

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InfoChachkie

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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InfoChachkie

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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socalTECH

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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InfoChachkie

MARCH 9, 2016

Once the timer was started, a fan blew the money about and the contestant had a few seconds to grab all the cash they could hold onto. I encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to launch mini-ventures while in school so they will begin to see the opportunities that surround them. Image: Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 7, 2016

Once the timer was started, a fan blew the money about and the contestant had a few seconds to grab all the cash they could hold onto. I encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to launch mini-ventures while in school so they will begin to see the opportunities that surround them. Image: Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg. Share and Enjoy.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

We talked with him on why he decided to head up this startup, and what 15desks is all about. Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work. Can you talk about some concrete examples of what you're managing? Talk about your background?

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

The funding, provided by Santa Barbara, CA-based Rincon Venture Partners and Venice, CA-based CrossCut Ventures, represents the first institutional investment for Zingle. In February (about a year after Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion), WhatsApp disclosed that it had surpassed 1 billion current monthly users.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2015

Despite the fact that I teach entrepreneurship at UC Santa Barbara , I do not believe that entrepreneurs are created in classrooms. Instead of trying to teach students to be an entrepreneur, I expose my entrepreneurial students to tools that will help them solve real-world problems. Challenging. Image: Pixabay. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

I ended up really relating to the nuance and intricacies of product supply and customer demand. This position embodies everything I love about the fashion industry from merchandising to corporate planning and strategy. As a UC Santa Barbara alum, do you have any advice for my UCSB students who desire to break into the fashion industry?

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2013

You can watch Sarah tell her compelling story in the following 15-minute excerpt from her recent UC Santa Barbara talk. Although she enjoyed the experience and gained television production skills, which she still uses today, the lack of viewership at Current was de-motivating. Those first six months were about.

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InfoChachkie

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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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

VC's love to talk about their successes. We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. spoke with Jeff for about 40-minutes. John Greathouse <john *@ *.com>

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

This all got me thinking about a post on how to best work with lawyers. When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. Shame about that pesky FAS 157 ruling.

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