socalTECH

JULY 28, 2009

Greathouse is a venture partner at Rincon Venture Partners, a faculty member at UC Santa Barbara, and has also previously served as an executive at Citrix Online, Callwave, and Computer Motion. Privately held Central Desktop's software-as-a-service offers project management and other web-centric, collaboration tools for teams.

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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.

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socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2009

According to OptionEase and Avant Advisory Group, the two will provide professional services along with web-based accounting and finance tools. Avant Advisory Group provides CFO, controllership, and other executive and interim management services through its Los Angeles, Newport Beach, and Santa Barbara offices.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Customer development, in hindsight… was the first of… an emerging stack of entrepreneurial management tools.”. The other major evolution of Steve’s thinking is in the area of web and mobile businesses, the latter of which were nascent at the time Four Steps was written. If you find one, you become a company. Enter Eric Ries .

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Eucalyptus’ underlying technology was developed at UC Santa Barbara. The most typical use case is a scalable web service. RightScale is the management tool of the cloud. You can manage across AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Eucalyptus, for instance.”. A good example is the shoemaker Puma.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

The funding, provided by Santa Barbara, CA-based Rincon Venture Partners and Venice, CA-based CrossCut Ventures, represents the first institutional investment for Zingle. The company raised $1 million last year, according to a 2015 regulatory filing. or forward the query to an appropriate hotel staffer to respond.

Technology 40

Technology Santa Barbara Venture Capital Venice 40

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 folks are any tool they can find to help them, any new tool they find.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. When used properly, these tools can help you build relationships, brands, friends and most importantly, knowledge. Tags: Eric Greenspan 140conf Google Voice jeff pulver santa barbara social media tech news Twitter. I love Namechk.com for this.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara. In our case, the workload manager comes from Eucalyptus, the configuration management from Puppet, and a third systems management tool.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

We've basically taken advantage of all the new technology out there--especially, the web-based service model. They were at UCSB, which needed a tool like this, and after they had developed it, they were trying to see what next steps to take. Later on, when you are at a university, you might manage things like your resume and portfolio.

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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. It's a powerful, visual tool for a subscriber to understand what's going on. The firm's founders are all experienced entrepreneurs, and come from Callwave, CrystalVoice, and Ideocore.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. The difference is that VoiceXML does not leverage customers' knowledge of web development. billion). . <Note:

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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. During her tenure, "A director came into our offices and pitched us a web-series idea. In the beginning, the mistakes can feel catastrophic, but being able to look back and reflect is really a useful tool.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Or how about the best example – Loic Le Meur gets everybody over to Paris every year for Le Web. Local Press / Websites / Organizational Tools – New York has an amazing startup scene and the energy and momentum is palpable. LA has the annual Monty Conference. NY has a million including the obvious ones like AdWeek.

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Startup Venture Capital Press San Diego 378

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently wrote a post on how to get access to VCs and angels where I outlined why lawyers are such an important tool for VC introductions. But as with consulting, PR, web design and even VC – it’s not just the firm it’s also the individual. We’ve had great experiences with Michael Pfau in Santa Barbara.

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