socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2019

Kevin sold his last company, Santa Barbara-based Graphiq, in July of 2017 to Amazon, but has a long history of successful companies, including founding DoubleClick. Figure that out, and once you identify the problem most efficiently, solve it. Congrats on the new name for your venture capital firm. Focus obsessively on that.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2013

We''re trying to identify the top 100 up-and-coming individuals in Southern California''s technology industry! It''s a list of individuals--across Southern California, from San Diego to Santa Barbara--who people ought to watch. Nominations will close on Friday, November 1st. The list will be alphabetical, not ranked.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

Unlike Los Angeles, San Diego, and Orange County--all of which have a number of schools with an engineering focus--and even Santa Barbara, which has benefited greatly from having a strong engineering program at UCSB--Ventura County does not have a major engineering school. Image courtesy of Bigstock. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 18, 2019

By December, 1969, there were only four nodes – UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, the University of California-Santa Barbara and the University of Utah. Here one can list pervasive search engines, access to extensive information repositories, consumer aids, entertainment, education, connectivity among humans, etc.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

He then went on to identify four approaches entrepreneurs can take to enhance their chances of achieving success. One step in this process is identifying a strategy for conducting your life that is based on your proclivity to either connect the dots or paint by numbers. Success Is (Mostly) In Your Hands.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

By early 2010, I found my stylistic voice and identified my audience of emerging entrepreneurs and thus dropped my penname. I will also increase the amount of video content, including snippets from talks given by my UC Santa Barbara classroom guest speakers. For the first couple years, I wrote under the pseudonym Uncle Saul.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 26, 2009

CitySourced provides a free, simple, and intuitive tool empowering citizens to identify civil issues (potholes, graffiti, trash, snow removal, etc.) We have regular monthly meetings in Westlake Village, Hollywood, Santa Barbara, & Newport Beach. I've heard great things about their events. What's keeping you up at night?

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 20, 2011

At both Expertcity (creator of GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting, acquired by Citrix) and Computer Motion (NASDAQ RBOT, acquired by Intuitive Surgical), our Intern recruiting efforts were primarily focused on identifying engineering talent for subsequent full-time employment. This explicit competitive element will cause the high-achievers to excel. .

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 11, 2013

Just like a high-tech startup CEO, Ben was tasked with: identifying a great idea, raising money, recruiting the team, building a commercial product, positioning marketing and distributing the product and eventually exiting the venture. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 10, 2011

He overheard me talking about Steve Jobs in conjunction with the entrepreneurship class that I teach at UC Santa Barbara. The photographer (who asked that I not identify him, but was happy for me to share his story) indicated that he knew Steve. I regularly bring successful entrepreneurs into my UC Santa Barbara classroom.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

I generally encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to complete their formal education before joining or creating a startup. Academia's arbitrary, bureaucratic structure, combined with its predominant focus on theoretical issues, causes many entrepreneurs to depart college early. Look around.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

As an Instructor of entrepreneurship at UC Santa Barbara, I welcomed the chance to read Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson’s Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer And Venture Capitalist. They then dissect a typical term sheet and identify which terms impact: (i) economics, (ii) control, (iii) both and (iv) neither.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 18, 2014

Bill Grundfest, Founder of the Comedy Cellar, Golden Globe winner and three time Emmy nominee, recently spoke to an audience of entrepreneurial students as part of UC Santa Barbara''s Distinguished Lecture Series. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes.

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Steve Reich

MARCH 23, 2012

I joined a panel with Sam Teller, Managing Director of LaunchpadLA ( www.LaunchpadLA.la ) , Klaus Schauser CEO of Appfolio ( www.appfolio.com ) , and Michael Holliday, founder of the incubator and prominent architect in Santa Barbara, to talk about the pros and cons of the current incubator boom. The takeaway?

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

I review these tenets with my entrepreneurial students at UC Santa Barbara at the beginning of each quarter to reinforce many of the key topics we will cover in the following weeks. If your culture rewards those who seek the truth, your team will be prone to objectively identifying tactical course corrections.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

I consistently remind my UC Santa Barbara startup students that for most people, money is not a sustaining motivator. I am often asked, "John, how do I identify a great startup opportunity?" Simply identify a problem you are passionate about solving and determine if it will yield you (and your team) a meaningful reward.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. Sangster identified new media growth opportunities, developed strategy, and managed the evaluation and execution of acquisitions that helped Disney meet its strategic objectives.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 3, 2012

Seth Epstein, Founder and CEO SocialStay , former Founder and CEO of FUEL (acquired by Razorfish) and Emmy Award winner for his work on the X-Games, recently spoke at UC Santa Barbara as part of the Technology Management Program’s Distinguished Lecture Series. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2010

Santa Barbara Foundation. A number of years ago, I was honored to join the Santa Barbara Foundation’s Katherine Harvey Fellows. Not surprisingly, the enterprising Katherine Harvey Fellows quickly identified a long list of promising charities. To learn about Ms.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 8, 2018

Steven Johnson, author of How We Got To Now , analyzes technological breakthroughs, looking for patterns that allow entrepreneurs to identify “How We’ll Get To Tomorrow.” During his talk, Seth described the practical, hands-on methodology that he uses on a day-to-day basis to identify and vet his entrepreneurial ideas.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

When I counsel startup entrepreneurs I give them my blunt dose of reality, “If you can’t easily identify target leads who have a problem you can solve then hang up your cleats – you’re not going to succeed.” You can read more about this if you click the link above.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Beer and pizza were served on Friday afternoons and anyone who dressed in a suit was easily identified as a visitor. We did not ask them to accept our Santa Barbara, casual startup view of the world. Kildall, a former college professor, was proud of Digital Research’s academic culture. a coat, tie and socks).

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2012

Seth began his entrepreneurial career when he dropped out of the University of California, Santa Barbara at 19 years old to start a clothing company, which he eventually built into a national line of denim products featured at Nordstrom, Macy’s and Neiman Marcus.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 6, 2018

One of my former students, Sieva Kozinsky, Co-Founder & CEO of StudySoup recently shared his startup insights with my UC Santa Barbara students. Former President of Santa Barbara City College, and friend, Peter MacDougall is a member of a Junto-like club, comprised of members whose ages range from the late 50’s to the early 80’s.

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