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7 Tools of Entrepreneurial Awesomeness

InfoChachkie

As part of the UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, Emmy Award winner Seth Epstein and current Founder and CEO of SocialStay , described seven practical, hands-on techniques entrepreneurs can use to enhance their overall awesomeness. So when you write your plan realize…it’s like writing a fairy tale.

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

InfoChachkie

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. It has also influenced my thoughts, as evidenced by the six infoChachkie blog entries which reference Art. For instance, Guy refers to an entrepreneur’s venture as their “cause.”

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Brad Feld: Secrets To A Successful Startup Life (Hint – Creating Wealth Ain’t Everything)

InfoChachkie

Brad is in the midst of writing a series of startup-oriented books. When writing Startup Life , Brad noted that he and Amy''s primary goal was to avoid a YARB (Yet Another Relationship Book). And on the other end of that spectrum, we didn''t want it to be a ''YARB,'' which we refer to as ''Yet Another Relationship Book.''

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Interview with Jordan Glazier, Wildfire Systems

socalTECH

Those references drive trillions of dollars of commerce. We're really latching onto the growing trend of building products that detect product references in social messaging. We automatically add tracking and point those product references to e-commerce merchants. We were most excited about Santa Barbara and San Diego.

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Brad Feld Shares His Secrets To A Successful Startup Life

InfoChachkie

Brad is in the midst of writing a series of startup-oriented books. When writing Startup Life , Brad noted that he and Amy''s primary goal was to avoid a YARB (Yet Another Relationship Book). And on the other end of that spectrum, we didn''t want it to be a ''YARB,'' which we refer to as ''Yet Another Relationship Book.''

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Better Business Bureau? For who?

Eric Greenspan

First Data of Santa Barbara has offered to extend below market rates to current accredited businesses like yours – again, just like they did for your BBB. First Data of Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, CA 93108. I then called Rick Copelan of the Santa Barbara BBB and asked him why they do this.

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Worst Networking Call Ever

InfoChachkie

I just got off the phone with someone who wanted my help getting networked into the Santa Barbara business community. Before contacting me, the consultant should have explored how well the referring party knew me. If that were the case, I would not be writing this entry, as I realize young people are learning “on the job.”