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Ten Startup Tips From Steve Jobs

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He overheard me talking about Steve Jobs in conjunction with the entrepreneurship class that I teach at UC Santa Barbara. Steve’s Startup Tips. 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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Five Startup Tips From Bill Gates

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In Mark Suster’s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara , he advised his audience of entrepreneurial students to master two skills: selling and coding. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system." " [Tweet this quote].

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Nine Startup Tips From Michael Dell

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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.

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Ten Startup Tips From Amazon Founder, Jeff Bezos

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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. Some people are internally focused, and if they reach critical mass, they can tip the whole company.”.

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Who's In Southern California's Unicorn Club?

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A look at the companies who are private, backed by venture capital, and are valued at more than $1 billion across Southern California -- from San Diego to Los Angeles to Santa Barbara -- is an interesting contrast in the wide range of types of technology companies across the region. Send tips our way at info@socaltech.com!

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Top Ten infoChachkie Entries Of 2012 – The Year Of Syndication

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In 2012,I added video from my UC Santa Barbara speakers, including Mark Templeon, CEO of Citrix; Kerri Pollard, President of Commission Junction; and Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus. Startup Tips From College Dropouts: Zuckerberg , Jobs, Gates, Dell, Ellison, Branson and Disney. 23 Startup Tips From Oprah Winfrey. >

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Talk Like An 8th Grader When Pitching Investors

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Photo courtesy of Santa Barbara Independent’s recent Techtopia Issue. Stephen King Startup Tip. Image: Santa Barbara Independent, all rights reserved. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Serial entrepreneurs agree that it is best to communicate with investors on an eighth grade level.