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UCSB Tops Harvard & Wharton In Startup Wars

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Unlike most university programs that are over architected and underfunded, the TMP evolved organically, based on the demands of its students and input from the local community. The company quickly pivoted to create a SaaS solution and in less than two years later, it was acquired by Intuit for $30 million. Organic Academia.

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Interview with Alex Kazerani and James Segil, OpenPath

socalTECH

Alex and James founded EdgeCast, which sold to Verizon for more than $350M in 2013. We had noticed this challenge at Verizon, where you had to have multiple badges for multiple offices, until they could get an MPLS circuit, firewall, and network, and team to manage to synchronize credentials across those offices.

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

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Social networking finally came of age connected the planet and leading to enormous wealth creation for Facebook employees and investors. The Laws of Supply & Demand. The most basic chart of microeconomics is a supply & demand curve. Demand represents a buyer and supply a seller. Even Sequoia. goes into a startup.

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