socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Here, we feature the contribution of John Greathouse , an investor with Rincon Venture Partners and Professor Of Practice at UC Santa Barbara, where he teaches courses on New Venture Creation and Entrepreneurial Sales. What was the big news for your company this year? READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Instead, grab your surfboard and head to UC Santa Barbara. Although UCSB has room to grow with regard to the total number of VC-backed startups it generates, the Santa Barbara region fares well when its relative size is taken into account. Image Credit: University Of California, Santa Barbara. Am I biased?

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Eric Greenspan

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Of course, I will bring my passion for “Mind Blowing Customer Experiences” to the business. The Macaw Coffee factory in Santa Barbara, Honduras. I also manage product development, business development and of course, IT. I of course grabbed a few and enjoyed them. My official title is Presidente.

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socalTECH

MAY 12, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Mindflash.com , a provider of online training software for small businesses, said today that it has named Donna Wells as its new President and CEO. The firm--which offers self-driven, online employee training courses--also said that it has launched into private beta. Wells was most recently CMO of Mint.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. Of course we can’t. There are of course many Seed VCs who take board seats, don’t over-commit to too many deals and try to help with “company building” activities to help at a company’s vulnerable foundations. Hot, Flat & Crowded.”

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Mindflash.com , an online training platform site headed by former Mint.com Chief Marketing Officer Donna Wells, said this week that it has officially launched its online trianing platform. The firm says it is targeting small businesses, and offers a way to help those businesses provide employee training.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Santa Barbara-based 15desks , a developer of software-as-a-service for educators, said this morning that the firm has launched a new product for course management. The firm said it is privately funded, and first launched in 2007 at the University of Santa Barbara.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

After 20+ Poogling seminars in Socal, we were approached by a concerned parent and the Santa Barbara Education Foundation to do a Poogling Seminar (teaching parents about child Internet safety) city-wide. Of course, we agreed to do it.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 22, 2012

Of course, given the size of this list and having kids, I really can't attend a lot of these. So, you may also want to go look at: Los Angeles Startup Events Here are some of the events and meetups that I've spoken at, attended or at least interest me. So, if you happen to read this and want to meet me, just reach out directly.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The following guest post is from some of my former UC Santa Barbara students. Design together, the course that introduced the idea for brightblu, they were concurrently taking three other classes: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Art of the CEO. Fall quarter of Sr. Fall quarter of Sr. Along with taking Sr.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2013

Lynda.com offers up online education courses on things like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Microsoft Excel, AutoCAD, and much more. According to Eric Robison, the firm's CEO, the funding round will go towards increasing the firm's global reach and expanding content. Meritech Capital also participated in the funding.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

I didn’t take a single course on computer programming in school. I now make a living knowing WordPress, CSS, HTML and of course search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing. Santa Barbara schools just approved a $700,000 purchase of iPads for its students. I’ve learned much about French history as a result.

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HTML Search Engine Optimization Santa Barbara Education 139

Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

First Data of Santa Barbara has offered to extend below market rates to current accredited businesses like yours – again, just like they did for your BBB. First Data of Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, CA 93108. I then called Rick Copelan of the Santa Barbara BBB and asked him why they do this.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In my new role as the first executive director for the Alliance for Southern California Innovation, I spent a lot of time outside of my home turf of Pasadena -- visiting innovation nodes such as San Diego, Irvine, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Venice, Santa Monica, and others.

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Xconomy

JUNE 12, 2019

At public research universities like U-M, introductory courses in STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) subjects are the required first steps in the process of earning a STEM degree. A University of Michigan professor and colleagues from 10 universities are hoping to change that.

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Equity Class Education Course 85

Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

I didn’t take a single course on computer programming in school. I now make a living knowing WordPress, CSS, HTML and of course search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing. Santa Barbara schools just approved a $700,000 purchase of iPads for its students. I’ve learned much about French history as a result.

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HTML Search Engine Optimization Santa Barbara Education 100

Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

I didn’t take a single course on computer programming in school. I now make a living knowing WordPress, CSS, HTML and of course search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing. Santa Barbara schools just approved a $700,000 purchase of iPads for its students. I’ve learned much about French history as a result.

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HTML Search Engine Optimization Santa Barbara Education 100

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Our Director of Flow, Heather Burlesci will be attending these courses as she is looking to build up her skills in this area. I of course agreed to get involved. Of course not, but I wish I could. Tags: Eric Greenspan 140conf Google Voice jeff pulver santa barbara social media tech news Twitter. A great trade!

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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. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

I have been watching ProductPlan for several years, as the founders are both friends and pillars of the Santa Barbara Startup Community. Greathouse: Great products and companies that came out (of) Santa Barbara. We build product roadmap software – it’s a SaaS company based here in Santa Barbara, California.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Of course I thank the whole team but hard not to call out Courtney specifically. I’m thankful for SurfAir whose Santa Barbara to SF Bay Area flight has allowed the executives at Invoca to be in SF & the Peninsula every week leading to our biggest year of revenue growth and a business now destined for 9-figure success.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

We look at stage, geography and of course sector. And of course many more of us are gluten intolerant or want to live gluten-reduced lives. And I believe this process is very healthy even when it doesn’t feel good. Periodically we do portfolio reviews to evaluate whether we have enough diversified risk across the fund.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Brian Coryat, Founder and CEO of Local Market Launch and former Founder and CEO of ValueClick (NASDAQ: VCLK) recently winged his talk at UC Santa Barbara''s Distinguished Lecture Series. I think I''ll just wing it'' and of course. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. And I said, ''I don''t know.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2010

Santa Barbara Foundation. A number of years ago, I was honored to join the Santa Barbara Foundation’s Katherine Harvey Fellows. He is a member of the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Faculty where he teaches several entrepreneurial courses. To learn about Ms. from the Wharton School.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

And then there are smatterings (Dallas 2x, DC 3x, Philly 3x, Austin, Boulder, Seattle not to mention San Diego 8x, Santa Barbara 8x – where I invested in RingRevenue). Of course if it’s a company on fire I would travel to any 2-hop city from LA. Every year I’m in the SF Bay Area 12-14 times. Not easily.

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Venture Capital Marketing Santa Barbara Startup 365

InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2015

Despite the fact that I teach entrepreneurship at UC Santa Barbara , I do not believe that entrepreneurs are created in classrooms. My courses are rigorous and demanding. I am likewise pleased that my courses have not been rated "easy," earning an overall 2.9 A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. We raised $280 million.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2013

Eric Robison: We're not going to spend it all right way, of course. That's on top of producing 400 courses this year, which is within our normal operating budget. I think part of the answer is the product's strength, and the investment we've made in building our online library of courses. There are many opportunities for us.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

And of course I know that some 25 year-olds are thinking that they’d rather stay in somewhere more hip, more alive at night & probably a bit cheaper. A few years ago I planned an outing to Santa Barbara for my Dad’s 70th birthday. All I was thinking was, “Hallelujah! My kids can yell at 8am!

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Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

Oh, and did I mention that their users have mapped 35,000 courses in 127 countries? inLife signed up dozens of merchants in Santa Barbara for their activity site. Of course not. Three full time developers and no marketing spend. They are nearing 1mm registered users. They did it entirely through social networking.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 11, 2013

I recently had a chance to observe an intimate conversation between Leonard Maltin and Ben Affleck at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, where Mr. Affleck was honored with the festival's "Modern Master" award. 120-Minutes With Mr. Affleck.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

if I follow a prescribed course, I'm going to get a good picture. Mark explains that, “There are two fundamental strategies. connecting dots and paint by numbers. You have to be realistic about who you are. Once you have this model in your head, it sets you free. It's a strategy. With) paint by numbers. That's the picture of your life.

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Mentor Santa Barbara RSS Startup 254

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

If you look at what you go through, starting high school, and maybe even middle or grade school, you go through your educational life managing courses, relationships with your teachers, and relationships with your parents. It's started with managing courses and grades, on to a whole array of other services.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

As part of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, serial entrepreneur and noted venture capitalist Mark Suster recently shared his advice with a large crowd of emerging entrepreneurs. Mark is a Partner at GRP Partners and authors one of the most widely read startup blogs, BothSidesOfTheTable.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 10, 2011

In the course of my recent interview with Guy Kawasaki , author and former Apple Evangelist, Guy describes Steve Jobs as: “… the world’s greatest CEO, ever. He overheard me talking about Steve Jobs in conjunction with the entrepreneurship class that I teach at UC Santa Barbara. Love Is All You Need (When Hiring…).

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Large companies write business plans, why of course, that’s the organizing document for a startup. As a retired serial entrepreneur and current venture capitalist who teaches entrepreneurship at UC Santa Barbara, I could not agree with Steve more. That was the implicit statement.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

I generally encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to complete their formal education before joining or creating a startup. The freedom to pursue the answers to the questions that most intrigue us is one of the primary benefits of charting your own course and not working for a Big Dumb Company.

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