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AUGUST 12, 2013

Naki Laundry , the smartphone driven startup which has been offering up pickup, cleaning, and delivery of laundry, has expanded into San Jose, and is looking to expand to San Francisco next month, according to the company. The startup is based in Santa Barbara. READ MORE>>.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Jason is another local Santa Barbara CEO and we had a great chat about Make It Work, Ring Revenue, Affiliate Marketing and life in SB. The focus of this post is Commission Junction, as we are just about to get started with them. I remember when they started in a building I once thought to lease for my 2nd company Push.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Santa Barbara-based ShipHawk , which offers up an online service and marketplace to help businesses and individuals to arrange for packing and shipping of items via shipping carriers, has rolled out a new API to let users tap into real time status of their shipments. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 5, 2012

The startup--headed by Wade Eyerly --is looking to start regular service between Los Angeles, Moterey, Santa Barbara, and Palo Alto to subscribers, who will be able to fly as much as they want between the locations for a monthly subscription. Eyerly--who previously worked for the U.S. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 11, 2015

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest , which got its start offering up lists and ways to compare the merits of a myriad of different things (products, colleges, you name it), has rebranded itself as Graphiq , and has refocused on the visual tools behind FindTheBest's original service. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 18, 2010

Looking to take on comparisons between products, services, and other information, a new startup, FindTheBest.com , has emerged in Santa Barbara. The startup--which bills itself a "comparison engine"--is headed by DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor , an active technology investor and industry notable. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Brian Coryat, Founder and CEO of Local Market Launch and former Founder and CEO of ValueClick (NASDAQ: VCLK) recently winged his talk at UC Santa Barbara''s Distinguished Lecture Series. He shared a number of witty entrepreneurial insights, including: "Startups are like high school. Both are fun, but mostly in hindsight.

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MARCH 18, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Cogi , a startup which provides a service to capture and transcribe business phone calls, announced today that it has rolled out a new, standalone transcription service. The firm previously offered similar services only through its phone call transcription product. per minute. per minute.

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MAY 14, 2019

Santa Barbara-based Curtail , a new cybersecurity startup which recently landed $3.25M in funding, said this morning that it has named two VPs. According to the startup, Deborah Scanlon will serve as vice president of strategic sales, and Nigel Quinnin will take on the role of vice president of development at the company.

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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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APRIL 2, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Make It Work , the on site technical support and computer repair service headed by Eric Greenspan, said Monday that it has switched its services to a new fixed-price, per-service model. The firm also will offer specific service add-ons like application installs and other help at $35.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

If you’re a startup and you don’t have a close relationship with a few law firms you’re really missing one of the most important relationships that any entrepreneur can have. Many people start companies arse backwards. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

Fortunately, the Startup of the Year program aims to make it easier for founders to connect with resources. In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. The Case Foundation (Washington, DC).

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Santa Barbara-based whole home audio system developer Sonos is making it possible for more people to experience it whole home sound systems in person, with a new deal with home furnishings chain West Elm , the two said on Thursday.

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APRIL 17, 2012

Santa Barbara-based My New Financial Advisor , a startup which helps match financial advisors with potential clients, said today that it has launched a new service to help generate client referrals for those advisors using phone calls.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Most of what I think about startup communities came from mentorship by Brad Feld through hours of private discussion and debate.

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JANUARY 25, 2018

Financial details of the deal were not announced, but according to Wave Broadband, the new high speed gigabit fiber is expected to provide service to city departments, businesses, schools, and residents. According to Santa Maria and Wave Broadband, the city sees the project as "essential" to the community's economic expansion.

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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. In Michael's case, he promised his parents that he would return to school if the sales at his startup did not meet his expectations. "I Startups win by changing the rules. Look around.

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MARCH 28, 2013

Jonathan Siegel , who co-founded Santa Barbara-based startups RightScale, RightCart, and RightSignature, has scored an exit today, and has sold Exceptional Cloud Services , his latest cloud software startup, to cloud hosting provider RackSpace. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced by the companies.

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MARCH 24, 2016

Santa Barbara-based HG Data has raised $12M in a Series B funding, the company announced today, for it market analytics and intelligence information. The startup said the funding was led by Updata Partners, and also included Rincon Venture Partners and Epic Ventures. HG Data is led by Craig Harris. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 6, 2014

Santa Barbara-based ShipHawk , the online developer of technology for helping connect users with shipping companies, has raised $5M in a funding round, the company said this morning. shiphawk shipping marketplace logistics startup venture capital dncapital' READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 9, 2014

Santa Barbara-based Impact Radius , which develops marketing analytics software aimed at optimizing ad spend across digital, mobile, and offline channels, said Tuesday that it has expanded in New York City, opening up a new office on Madison Avenue. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 7, 2018

Los Angeles-based subscription airline Surf Air is extending its service into Orange County, with a new partnership with helicopter charter firm BLADE , the company said on Wednesday. The connecting flights will cost $199 per shuttle flight, and are not included as part of Surf Air's existing membership. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 4, 2018

Santa Barbara-based Sonos --which reportedly has filed for a confidential IPO with the SEC--expects to have its IPO in June, according to multiple reports, meaning that the IPO paperwork for the company should be made available soon to the public. The IPO would reportedly value Sonos at between $2.5 billion and $3.0 READ MORE>>.

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JULY 21, 2016

Santa Barbara-based WeDo , a new startup developing social, to-do list apps, has raised $1M in a funding from angel investors, the company said this morning. The startup--founded by Spencer Shulem and Raad Mobrem--lets users track tasks, get reminders, and even collaborate on lists with other people. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Los Angeles-based Surf Air , the membership-based, all-you-can fly airline headed by Wade Eyerly, has extended out its footprint today, saying that it has added another aircraft and expanded service to Hawthorne and Palm Springs. Surf Air said new flights in Hawthorne will start on December 9th, and Palm Springs will start on December 12th.

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MARCH 8, 2011

Santa Barbara-based Sonos , the developer of the user friendly, multi-room, wireless music systems, said today that it has connected up the MOG music service to its products. MOG said it will offer up high quality, 320kbps streamed music to Sonos customers. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2016

In order to pay his college tuition, young Stephen created a sole proprietor startup with a very entrepreneurial pricing structure. In contrast, startups which confuse inputs with outputs are assured an unceremonious death. Startup selling is largely predicated on velocity. When can we start?”. Outputs, Not Inputs.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Under the heading, “The Book On Bezos,” the callout lists ten actionable and impactful nuggets of startup advice. 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. We don’t give up on things easily.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 5, 2015

Susan is a startup coach and the founder of Givelocity, a social network for giving that offers a new spin on crowdfunding for good. She’s been on the founding team of 9 startups, six with successful exits. She later joined forces with the founding team at PayPal to help launch the influential online payments service.

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JANUARY 19, 2016

Los Angeles-based Helpr , the developer of a mobile, on-demand app to help users find a babysitter, has launched in Los Angeles, Orange County, and Santa Barbara, according to the company. Edwards and Richters previously founded University Sitters, a childcare services provider. Desperate to find a babysitter for the night?

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JUNE 9, 2016

Santa Barbara-based Impact Radius , which develops digital marketing and affiliate marketing software, has raised $30M in a funding round, according to the company. The funding came from Silversmith Capital partners.

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OCTOBER 9, 2013

Google''s display advertising network, Google Display Network, doesn''t perform as promised, according to Santa Barbara-based PureClick.

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APRIL 24, 2013

A new startup, Zodiac805 , headed by former Make It Work founder Eric Greenspan, said it has launch an effort to provide fresh, real time, relevant marketing prospects to companies. Zodiac805 is based in Santa Barbara. Are you an online marketer, wishing you could do a better job of generating leads for your business?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. By definition?—?I’m two founders in a garage?—?(HP

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DECEMBER 4, 2008

A new Santa Barbara-based startup, Cogi , said today that it has launched a new service focused on helping consumers and professionals take notes on their phone calls or meetings. The firm said it is using a combination of signal processing, speech-to-text technology, and human assistance for the service.

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MARCH 13, 2013

Santa Barbara-based HG Data Company announced this morning that it has raised $2M in a funding round, for its cloud-based, business intelligence database service.

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