InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Below is a talk on New Venture Investing from the University of California Santa Barbara’s Technology Management Program, by Jim Andelman. Jim has more than fifteen years of experience in venture capital investing, technology investment banking and advisory services and strategic business consulting.

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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. Many people go back with lots of new ideas, experience, and energy. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

Santa Barbara schools just approved a $700,000 purchase of iPads for its students. Learning Latin has its uses; learning HTML, technology and other future skills, can make them a living and help them solve world problems. Creator of mind blowing customer experiences. This, I applaud. To the moon, Eric David Greenspan.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

My co-founder Kasey� and I started a boutique agency at the end of our time in college, which was in Santa Barbara. Both of us went to UC Santa Barbara, and were working as nannies there. How did you handle going from a background in child care, to developing and app and figuring out the technology side of things?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. How are you able to do all this? It allows us to start peeling the onion.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2020

We want to change the culture and framework of the I'm killing it culture of early stage entrepreneurship, where you're expected to hold everything inside, even if you're struggling, and where you don't feel like you have an outlet for the feelings you are experience as you build your business.

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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. Members were also more comfortable aligning their brands with an emerging technology, as opposed to a fledgling company.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

In the startup world, one of the most difficult journeys to market is by companies who are taking basic scientific advances and technologies originally developed at universities, and taking them all the way to use in the commercial world. Carbonics is focusing on wireless technology, using new semiconductors that bring us into the 5G era.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

It’s been an amazing experience so far, but the best part are the relationships I’ve built since getting started. As a board member of the Technology Council of Southern California (now an official sponsor of the event), I first reached out to my fellow board members. I’ve jumped on the bandwagon, big time!

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

In my experience a big part of building a winning team is recognizing who the MVPs are from the start. We each also bring very different career experience and perspectives to the table. As a team, we bring a powerful combination of telephony and performance marketing experience to the table. Be prepared to iterate.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 2, 2011

I gave this talk was given to perspective and current UC Santa Barbara students, hence my references to UCSB’s Technology Management Program (TMP). Self-aware entrepreneurs base their confidence on their experiences, including their various Mini-ventures. Additional thoughts below: Confidence. Conviction. “A

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

If you don’t have much experience in working with law firms at a startup it’s a good primer. Michael Pfau (Santa Barbara … Reicker Pfau). And he’ll be heading the Business & Technology Group. I wrote a blog post on how to work with lawyers at a startup nearly two-and-a-half years ago.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

That''s how recruiting works now, and continues to work with our technology. Why is technology important here? Coaches are looking to use technology more efficiently, so they can connect in a more effective manner with the people they want to, but still have the rules around our industry and how the industry operates.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 12, 2015

One of these bright lights is Santa Barbara-based HG Data - developers of the world's largest competitive-intelligence database. <Note: At an early age, many women are subtly discouraged from participating in science and technology, by unconscious cues sent by parents, teachers and their peers.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. Indiegogo is a platform for ground breaking technology and where you can find interesting products that haven’t hit the mainstream market. THE SANDBOX & StartupSB (Santa Barbara, CA). Indiegogo (San Francisco,CA and New York, NY).

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

You can hear Don tell his story in the following excerpt from his recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. However, in retrospect, he admits that he lacked the requisite experience and self-awareness. "So So… I ate a piece of humble pie… (and) I started ingesting information about how to run a technology startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

They point out perceived market risks, they might question the management team’s experience, they might worry about regulatory risk or incumbent competitive powers. One such theme was “water conservation” and we morphed it into a broader theme of agriculture technology or “ag tech” for short.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 13, 2014

Tracy DiNunzio, Founder and CEO of Tradesy , recently shared her insights as part of UC Santa Barbara''s Distinguished Lecture Series. According to Tracy, "From that (experience) I learned to challenge assumptions. This is something that we do relentlessly in technology start ups, we test our assumptions.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

According to Jason, “Every experience is also a learning experience. It also provides a way for graduates to learn about ideas, opportunities and technologies about which they might not have been aware while focusing on building and scaling their own startup. But to the graduates, it provides an opportunity to grow as leaders.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Eucalyptus’ underlying technology was developed at UC Santa Barbara. The code is open, the APIs are open…we see that all over the world and it creates a strong ecosystem of adjacent, value-adding products that run on top of Eucalyptus or with Eucalyptus, enhancing the overall experience for the customer.”.

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2012

We're using smaller executive aircraft, because private aircraft have very different rules governing them, and which improves the experience dramatically over commercial flights. It dramatically improves the experience. It has just been an incredible learning experience. We're also using executive, regional airports.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I’m just going to share my experience so you can learn how to do the same. Tags: Daily Diary eric david greenspan make it work computer loan modification mini cooper santa barbara sonos tech news technology tweetdeck Twitter. I’m not in the mortgage modification business, so don’t worry.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I’m just going to share my experience so you can learn how to do the same. Tags: Daily Diary eric david greenspan make it work loan modification sonos Twitter tweetdeck technology computer tech news santa barbara mini cooper. I’m not in the mortgage modification business, so don’t worry.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 10, 2011

There are numerous reasons for Jobs’ success, not the least of which was his uncompromising pursuit of a delightful customer experience. He overheard me talking about Steve Jobs in conjunction with the entrepreneurship class that I teach at UC Santa Barbara. He is a great example of…building an enchanting company.”.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Most people have had the unfortunate experience of losing a portable electronic item -- a cell phone, iPod, or some other device -- while out and about. After my degree, I traveled for a year, and stopped by Santa Barbara, where we are based. Once I had enough experience there, I started to go for this mobile payment system.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

In 1996, they spun out from those entities and created GRP, taking our retailing experience, and seeing that retailing was moving online and invested in retail as it moved online. The new fund is focused entirely on technology companies. So we're focused on technology, and financial services.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The group--which was started by Richard Koffler and John Morris , two well known investors in Los Angeles--has been trying to help connect CEOs with interesting university and other technology projects. We're looking for inventors interested in commercializing and spinning out their technology into a company. Thanks for the time today.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

28 from 7pm-10pm in Santa Monica. Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. Csathy was President and CEO of Sorenson Media, Inc.,

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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 you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. He was not an expert in technology, inventory logistics or publishing.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

You can get feedback almost instantaneously and the cost of iteration is as close to zero as technology will allow us to get. This is why entrepreneurship (programs) in universities… are helped when they are taught by adjuncts with startup entrepreneurial experience either as venture capitalists or as retired entrepreneurs.”.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 11, 2013

One of the quintessential end goals of this feature is to make life easier for busy entrepreneurs and investors in California by quickly connecting them to critical hubs like LA, Silicon Valley and Santa Barbara. The experience of going through the tougher times has helped make us into the company we are today.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Cogi (www.cogi.com) recently launched a phone-based service which allows users to transcribe conference calls and meetings. As the name implies, CrystalVoice solved that particular problem, and was able to provide a consistent audio experience in the presence of significant Internet challenges.

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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.” One of the key myths that he destroys is that of the lone inventor who experiences a Eureka moment. A version of this article first appeared in Forbes.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mike has over 18 years of business development, marketing and management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. Sangster is a serial entrepreneur and M&A executive with experience both founding and acquiring businesses. to 9:30 p.m.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2013

This was a situation where we had the opportunity to take on funding, at a point where we could utilize it to scale our technology platform, and to increase our global reach and expand our content, beyond what we'd do normally. Eric Robison: The company grown last year to exceed $100M in topline revenue.

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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. Because of that, nobody knows about introNetworks unless you've had direct experience with us.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I’ve recently had a chance to reconnect with Eric David Greenspan ( LinkedIn , Twitter ) He’s the CEO of Make It Work a high quality, personal, high touch technology service provider for homes and small businesses. Santa Barbara: the home of the clicks (and the calls) , Do your kids Google poo? Great posts.

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