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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. Of course we can’t. I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. Hot, Flat & Crowded.” By definition?—?I’m

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Better Business Bureau? For who?

Eric Greenspan

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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Non-millennial Bootstrapping – These 50-Something Entrepreneurs Rejected VC $ And Nailed It

InfoChachkie

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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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

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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Steve Blank Discusses The Origin And Future Of The Lean Startup Movement

InfoChachkie

Large companies write business plans, why of course, that’s the organizing document for a startup. Yet we took this document, the business plan, because we knew nothing else and said, ‘Go write one of these.’. That was the implicit statement. Ten year later… (we know that) startups are not smaller versions of large companies.

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Interview with Zareh Baghdasarian, 15desks

socalTECH

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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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

Both Sides of the Table

But of course all of these things are intertwined. In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. Obviously you need to be mentally flexible enough to spot if your instincts were wrong and a change of course is necessary. Know what you believe is important.

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