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. Just this past September was a year with Amazon, when I left, and we started investing in September under the new name, ScOp Venture Capital. I was blown away.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue has raised $3.25M in a Series B-2 funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Monday. Investors in the round have not yet been announced, however, the firm has raised funding in the past from Great Pacific Capital, GRP Partners, and Rincon Venture Partners. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2018

PDT from Vandenberg Air Force Base, with the payload heading South past Los Angeles and San Diego--typical for launches from Vandenberg for the Iridium satellite constellation. Steven", courtesy AIS marine traffic captured by the Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club. SpaceX is aiming to launch the Iridium-5 NEXT mission at 7:13 a.m.

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2014

Santa Barbara-based call marketing automation software developer Invoca , which is led by Jason Spievak, said yesterday that its systems have converted $2.5 Invoca did not say what that translates to in terms of the company''s revenues, however, said it has seed revenue growth of more than 1200 percent over the past three years.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Instead, grab your surfboard and head to UC Santa Barbara. Although UCSB has room to grow with regard to the total number of VC-backed startups it generates, the Santa Barbara region fares well when its relative size is taken into account. Image Credit: University Of California, Santa Barbara.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2011

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , the developer of cloud computing management software, said Wednesday that it has opened up a new office in Beijing, China. Eucalyptus said it opened the new office due to a "sharp increase in demand" from organizations in Asia for its software over the past year. READ MORE>>.

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Eric Greenspan

APRIL 27, 2015

This past weekend I bought a new car for my gal to drive and as a family car. I’ve made the payments for the past three years. I’ve bought several cars from Bunnin in Oxnard and many cars from the Chevy dealership in Santa Barbara. I was one week out from my discharge of a chapter 7 bankruptcy. Let me explain.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Daryl Bernstein , RightSignature (Santa Barbara, software). James Borow and Clark Landry (shared position), SHIFT (Los Angeles, Santa Monica, advertising). Holden Steinberg , Pagewoo (Santa Monica, advertising). Thorsten von Eicken , Rightscale (Santa Barbara, cloud computing).

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2014

It was a rather hapless soul who was seeking my help networking within Santa Barbara''s startup community. Despite the ease with which anyone can determine my investments and past operating roles, the caller asked me if I knew the CEO of RightScale. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 26, 2010

Ben has invested the past 10 years in tracking the Southern California Technology market, maintaining a deep database of technology firms and publishing realtime news about local high tech companies through his website, socalTECH.com.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2013

The funding is the largest funding in Santa Barbara County in recent history, and among the largest fundings across all of Southern California, with the exception of a couple of late stage biotechnology deals in the past year. Meritech Capital also participated in the funding.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2011

In the 1930’s, when Max Fleischmann (of yeast fame) brought his yacht into the Santa Barbara harbor, the local laundry trucks did the sensible thing. The second best time is right now.”. Chinese Proverb, borrowed from Scott Dinsmore’s Reading For Your Success. Put a price on it. Source: Scott Dinsmore’s Reading For Your Success.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We are mostly running the same playbook we have for the past 25 years. But we also organize ourselves around practice areas and have done for the past 7 years and these include: SaaS, Cyber Security, FinTech, Computer Vision, Sustainability, Healthcare, Marketplace businesses, Video Games? That never would have happened 10 years ago.

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InfoChachkie

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. We started Milo Sensors over two years ago through the UC Santa Barbara New Venture Competition. I love origin stories. What was the company’s genesis?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

Michael Pfau (Santa Barbara … Reicker Pfau). And over the past few years I had been egging him on from LA to get Cooley to take our market more seriously. And over the past 5 years I have done more deals with and worked with more companies counseled by Dave than any other firm. Don Lee (LA … LKP).

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Venture Capital Startup Los Angeles GRP Partners 299

Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

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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Santa Barbara Technical Advisors Email Technical Review 265

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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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2019

Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. ] [ Editor’s note: This is part of a series examining the internet’s first 50 years and predicting the next half century. The internet nearly came with built-in caller ID.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

A number of my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students have asked my opinion of Robert Greene''s The 48 Laws Of Power , prompting me to check it out. 12) Law 47 - Do Not Go Past The Mark You Aimed For; In Victory, Learn When To Stop. Past success is irrelevant, you must earn each future victory.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

In Mark Suster’s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara , he advised his audience of entrepreneurial students to master two skills: selling and coding. Gates, Ballmer and the rest of Microsoft’s executive team were extremely frugal, long past the company’s startup stage. " [Tweet this quote]. " [Tweet this quote].

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

As noted in Success, Santa Barbara Style , my definition of success includes living where you want to live and making money doing what you love. For many entrepreneurs in Santa Barbara, achieving such success would be much more difficult if it weren’t for the emergence of an innovative airline – Surf Air.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

I’m thankful to the founders of the companies that I invested in where the business has been on a crazy growth trajectory over the past year or two. I know you’re our unsung heroes and I appreciate what you do. What many people don’t understand is that the stresses associated with success are significant.

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2019

Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. [ Editor’s note: This is part of a series examining the internet’s first 50 years and predicting the next half century. Because if we could, we’d all be bankrupt.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

For instance, I might show a logo of Computer Motion, GoToMeeting, Citrix, UC Santa Barbara and Rincon Venture Partners on my first slide as a means of depicting my past and current professional affiliations. What's Your Story? Stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Your slides should do the same.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 28, 2014

In the past, a struggling entrepreneur''s options for paying the bills were limited. Tracy''s remarks are taken from a talk she gave to a group of aspiring entrepreneurs at UC Santa Barbara. The sharing economy is also proving to be a significant source of bootstrap startup capital.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2011

A clear trend over the past 15-years is that many Silicon Valley venture capitalists enjoy investing within driving distance. I recently spoke with an unhappy early-stage investor who described the demise of a life sciences startup which was moved from Santa Barbara to San Diego at the behest of a large venture firm.

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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. To learn about Ms. Seelig’s students’ winning ideas, I highly recommend you watch the following six minute video. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School.

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Santa Barbara Class Ideas Organization 191

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. Is it hard to balance your work hard / play hard culture, especially in beautiful Santa Barbara? Cats or dogs?

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2012

After the very successful 3-day Silicon Beach Fest this past June 2012 which attracted over 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London, Digital LA is bringing it back for a 1-day packed event on November 9 th. Who ever said you can only have a beach fest in the summer?

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InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

In early December of 1818, Jose de la Guerra devised a brilliant plan to thwart the French pirate Hippolyte de Bouchard who was lurking off the coast of Santa Barbara, contemplating an attack. We hosted an annual user conference in Santa Barbara, attended by a couple hundred of the world’s top surgeons.

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Entrepreneur Santa Barbara Startup Conference 168

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 15, 2011

I just got off the phone with someone who wanted my help getting networked into the Santa Barbara business community. Despite the ease at which someone can determine my investments and past operating roles, the caller asked me if I knew the CEO of RightScale. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

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. A few years ago I planned an outing to Santa Barbara for my Dad’s 70th birthday. Why can’t I have it?

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Although women have made significant contributions in the tech world during the past twenty years, a gender problem still persists in Silicon Valley, with men outnumbering women three to one at tech companies. One of these bright lights is Santa Barbara-based HG Data - developers of the world's largest competitive-intelligence database. <Note:

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2016

Thus, I was honored when he agreed to share his insights regarding the fundamentals of success with my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students. Stellar leaders create a culture which encourages employees to experiment and seek a “better way,” rather than dogmatically adhering to solutions that worked in the past.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 24, 2016

Unlike sites of the past that were deemed illegal, the current crop of election sites appear to well positioned to exploit the unprecedented focus Americans are applying to the 2016 election cycle. Greathouse: You and Brent are currently third and fourth year Computer Science majors at UC Santa Barbara.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

As part of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, serial entrepreneur and noted venture capitalist Mark Suster recently shared his advice with a large crowd of emerging entrepreneurs. The next mistake Mark articulated from his past was raising too much money. But the second thing…is also not likely to succeed.

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Entrepreneur Startup Conference Santa Barbara 272

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 10, 2011

He overheard me talking about Steve Jobs in conjunction with the entrepreneurship class that I teach at UC Santa Barbara. I regularly bring successful entrepreneurs into my UC Santa Barbara classroom. I recently met a highly successful photojournalist, by happenstance, at a coffee shop.

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