InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

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.

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Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

socalTECH

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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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

. "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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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

By conceptualizing, selling, gathering feedback and then developing a product, startups achieve success more quickly and economically. Large companies write business plans, why of course, that’s the organizing document for a startup. Preaching What You Live. That was the implicit statement. Enter Eric Ries .

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

In addition, I was honored to speak with such notable entrepreneurs as: Kevin O’Connor (Founder DoubleClick and FindTheBest), Brad Feld (Founder TechStars, Partner The Foundry Group), Marten Mickos (Founder MySQL and CEO of Eucalyptus Systems) and Len Short (CMO, (Product) RED, AOL and Charles Schwab). StumbleUpon stumbled upon this entry.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Santa Barbara-based SendMeHome (www.sendmehome.com) is looking to solve that problem, with a free service to print out labels which attach to your item, and where you can register items in case they are lost. Why not just write your phone number or information on an item? How do you get those items back? One, is it's anonymous.

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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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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

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

OCTOBER 5, 2015

As a Professor of Practice in Entrepreneurship at UC Santa Barbara , students ask me dozens of times each quarter, “What do you think of my idea?” Readers are guided through the idea vetting process by covering a variety of topics, including: People, Pain, Product, Market, Plan, Pitch and Pitfalls.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 20, 2011

In several cases, we eventually productized summer Intern projects, including a mobile version of GoToMyPC which we called PocketView. Working on meaningful projects will shorten the Interns’ learning curve, thereby ensuring they will reach an acceptable level of productivity soon after being hired full-time.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I'm down here probably three or four days a week on average, and we're trying to be active, and pick off what we think are going to be the best deals here, from Santa Barbara down to San Diego. We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. What areas you personally are looking at right now?

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Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. With HeyTutor, we track those lessons, let you write notes down about your clients, we create a tutor profile for you and a hub. We have product, people, and have our foundation set. Finally, what's next for the company?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

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.

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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. Scuba or skydiving?

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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. That video is. what started it all.".

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

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. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Many people start companies arse backwards.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

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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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

If you've taken a course, and need an application to do chemistry or math analysis, there's a store where you can write, share, sell, or buy those applications. This tool helps in all of those aspects, and reduces the amount of work, improves productivity, and helps teachers to do more. The other part of this is an app store.

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Education Startup Course Tool 124

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

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. Our approach is often additive to all parties, resulting in ongoing, productive relationships.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

All four companies were in Los Angeles (or adjacent … Santa Barbara) and our community has now matured and regularly produces billion dollar+ outcomes. He writes “Half of all venture funds outperform the stock market which is the benchmark most institutions measure VC funds against.”

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