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.

Funding 178

Funding Santa Barbara ReachLocal Southern California 178

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

The angel group also mentioned a web site design as part of its initiatives this year. The group also said it is focusing on its SeedTrack program, which is specifically focused on seed stage funding and extensive mentoring.

Tech Coast Angels 157

Tech Coast Angels Orange County Seed Funding Santa Barbara 157

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

company operates a number of content-focused sites, including LIVESTRONG, eHOW, Cracked, and a domain name registration business, eNOM. positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. range of software products, and which has offices in Calabasas and Santa Barbara. Demand Media. The now-public.

Technical Review 279

Technical Review Company Companies Southern California 279

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Commission Junction , the affiliate marketing arm of ValueClick, said Wednesday that online discount retailer Overstock.com has signed on as a customer of the firm. Commission Junction will manage Overstock.com's affiliate marketing programs, which are used to encourage sales on e-commerce web sites.

Santa Barbara 100

Santa Barbara Commerce Web Sales 100

socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2009

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , which is developing technology for pay-per-call, telephone affiliate advertising, has raised $3.5M The funding actually closed back in March, but the firm had declined to release details until it relaunched its web site. The firm is headed by former Callwave CFO Jason Spievak.

GRP Partners 100

GRP Partners Santa Barbara Advertising Venture Capital 100

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2009

Santa Barbara-based SendMeHome.com , a startup which runs a service which combines social networking with a way to help people retrieve lost objects, has launched a new Facebook application today. READ MORE>>.

Santa Barbara 100

Santa Barbara Social Network Networking Sites 100

socalTECH

JULY 24, 2009

Newbury Park-based Lottay , an online site focused on social "gifting" applications, has raised around $200,000 in a round from DFJ Frontier, socalTECH has learned. Lottay's online web site allows people to help buy gift cards and collect money from friends and family for those gifts. READ MORE>>.

Funding 100

Funding Santa Barbara SoCalTech Sites 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Santa Barbara-based BioIQ, a provider of web-based, consumer health testing services, said last week that it has inked a deal to provide its services to Alere, a provider of health and wellness serviecs. Financial impact of the deal was not disclosed. BioIQ is venture backed by $2.5M in funding from Great Pacific Capital.

Santa Barbara 100

Santa Barbara Web Tool Report 100

socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Citrix Online is showing a new, screen recording service it is calling " GoView " at the DEMO conference this week, saying Monday that it is launching the service to allow business professionals to record, edit, and share their computer screen.

Screening 100

Screening Services Santa Barbara Conference 100

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. One of the more interesting new features is that the site now takes into account social signals. I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Angel Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 150

Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

TripTrotting recruited thousands of local travel guides for their site. inLife signed up dozens of merchants in Santa Barbara for their activity site. All of these companies cranked out an app or site and launched within a few months, and they produce new iterations at blazing speed. Capital to date? $20k

Incubator 91

Incubator Web Entrepreneur Santa Barbara 91

socalTECH

JANUARY 6, 2009

Santa Barbara-based startup SendMeHome.com , which provides a free service to help people retrieve their lost items, has launched a new social feature the firm says will help connect people through objects. The new features take advantage of the site's identification labels to tie in text and photos to physical items.

Santa Barbara 100

Santa Barbara Tips Writing Sites 100

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. When Suite Arrival launches, you will be able to login to their site, choose your travel period, destination and toiletry needs and a box will show up at your hotel before you arrive. I’ve jumped on the bandwagon, big time! I love Namechk.com for this.

Social Network 196

Social Network Networking Social Media Yahoo 196

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

You can hear Don tell his story in the following excerpt from his recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. They brought me in and they said, ''There''s this whole new thing that we think there''s a lot of business, it''s the web. Although he was excelling as a web designer, Don began to get the itch to start his own business.

Startup 250

Startup Entrepreneur Design Santa Barbara 250

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Eucalyptus’ underlying technology was developed at UC Santa Barbara. The most typical use case is a scalable web service. They have a number of mini-websites that they run for various products and campaigns and they cannot know which of those sites will need resources at any given point.

Cloud Computing 212

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Platform Resource 212

socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2010

After DoubleClick, Kevin eventually settled down in Santa Barbara, which is where his newest startup-- FindTheBest.com (www.findthebest.com) is headquartered. We had to go to 1200 ski resort sites to gather data in a consistent format, so that people could do a good comparison. How'd you decide to start FindTheBest?

Startup 210

Startup Advertising Examples Santa Barbara 210

Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

We are huge proponents of the Internet, so the last thing we wanted to do was scare them and stop their kids from benefiting from using the Web. We are currently scheduling a District-wide event in Santa Barbara for all parents of students in elementary and middle schools. We’ve yet been turned down.

Google 115

Google .Net Santa Barbara Email 115

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I frequently work on networking through the social web and building new relationships that will foster knowledge gathering or business growth. We need to spend some time discussing what you do with the social web. I'd rather invest time investing in social media to drive traffic to our site. Love the minis! Great posts.

Acquisition 170

Acquisition Customer Custom Ideas 170

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. Web-based businesses must compete in the blinding light of total transparency. Don’t Chase The Quick Buck. Add Up Lots Of Little Advantages.

Tips 279

Tips Startup Framework Customer 279

socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2009

Earlier this month, Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue (www.ringrevenue.com) announced that it had raised a round of venture funding. The way it works today, is a web site might have an affiliate link, people looking for a mortgage or refi will input their info, and hit submit. Explain your technology?

Advertising 113

Advertising Networking Santa Barbara Startup 113

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Likeabilitee (www.likeabilitee.com) has come up with a new, highly visual service which makes it very easy for you to analyze and understand how people are engaging with your social media posts on Facebook. Those sites are on the large side, with 20,000 or 30,000 people. We love data visualization.

Social Media 203

Social Media Startup Tool LAMP 203

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. I used to get up at 5:00 in the morning with my father and go to construction sites. During her tenure, "A director came into our offices and pitched us a web-series idea.

Networking 214

Networking Startup Santa Barbara RSS 214

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. Can you talk about how Redpoint splits up investment -- do certain partners handle certain industries, or is it more geographic?

Redpoint 154

Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

Greathouse : Let''s start with a question that will be especially helpful for my UC Santa Barbara students. Over the years, as our reputation grew, we got more repeat business and corresponding word of mouth (then) everything changed, especially with the web. . Then we started advertising and getting media attention.

Entrepreneur 187

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Resource 187