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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Peter Pham, of Los Angeles technology studio/incubator Science Inc., Santa Barbara's Phone Halo pitches the idea of its GPS/Bluetooth wallet tracking device in this (kinda campy) video. Los Angeles MiniTime debuted its service this week to help families find reviews and information for their family vacation.

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Technical Review Santa Barbara Software Review Activision 157

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JULY 14, 2010

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , the provider of pay-per-call technology headed by Jason Spievak, apparently is powering a trial by Google in its Google Affiliate Network. In news leaked out by Affiliate New Review, apparently Google is using RingRevenue on a trial of paying commissions for phone-based traffic.

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MARCH 22, 2011

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , the pay-per-call technology provider, says today that it has been seeing gains in the financial services industry with its platform. RingRevenue said Progrexion has seen an increase of 630% in sales due to its pay-per-call campaigns since launch in July of 2010.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Periodically we do portfolio reviews to evaluate whether we have enough diversified risk across the fund. One such theme was “water conservation” and we morphed it into a broader theme of agriculture technology or “ag tech” for short. We look at stage, geography and of course sector. 6SensorLabs.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2017

An uncontrolled, raging fire in Ventura County--which started in Santa Paula last night around 6:45pm, and rapidly spread to more than 25,000 acres early on Tuesday morning--is directly impacting the high tech corridor in Ventura County.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Guy’s latest book, Enchantment , was released in March of 2011, to overwhelmingly upbeat reviews. Of the 225 customer reviews currently posted on Amazon, over 90% are highly positive. I enjoyed the book as well, as evidenced by the review I wrote at the time of its release, which you can read HERE. It wasn’t the Guy fan base.

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Santa Barbara Technical Review Social Media Startup 262

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MARCH 12, 2015

Superconductor Technologies , the developer of superconducting wire and wireless component which has operations in Santa Barbara, has cut nearly a third of the company''s jobs in February, and reduced its staff to 30. layoff jobs barbara santa santabarbara employment wireless wire technologies superconductor'

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APRIL 5, 2010

The growing clean technology sector also helped numbers, with $74.0M for Santa Monica electric vehicle firm Coda Automotive. Father north, in Santa Barbara, Sonos scored $25.0M Tags: southern california angeles venture capital diego santa barbara startup investment finance. in deals tracked by our database.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2011

This concentration is partly due to natural causes – successful startups spawn other successful startups. If the tech community believes that a certain area is the epicenter of a particular industry, motivated entrepreneurs will start their ventures in such locations, thus reinforcing the geography’s perceived advantageousness.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The launch has been attempted four times since December 7th, but has been scrubbed due to a combination of technical problems and weather. ULA, like its competitor SpaceX, regularly launches rocket missions from Vandenberg Air Force Base, which is north of Santa Barbara. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet , a provider of internet brand protection and analytics software, said today that it has named Ryan Erickson as Vice President of Sales. TrackStreet develops technology for monitoring brand reputation, Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) agreements, customer reviews, and similar information.

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MARCH 10, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Resonant , which is developing radio frequency filer technology for mobile front-ends, said yesterday afternoon that it has signed a second customer for its technology. Name of the customer was not disclosed.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Tortuga Logic , a new startup focused on chip-level cybersecurity technology whose founders include professors from UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara, has raised $2M in a seed funding, the company disclosed on Thursday. The seed funding came from Eclipse Ventures.

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Software Review UCSD Santa Barbara Seed Funding 124

InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

The short version of my review is: “Enchanting? I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years. Unfortunately, most business books do not offer entrepreneurs an adequate payoff. Fan, Not A Fan Boy. Positive ROI.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has just delayed its upcoming satellite launch mission--of the Spaceflight SSO-A: SmallSat Express --due to the incoming weather system into California. The mission had been scheduled to launch on Wednesday from Vandenberg Air Force Base, north of Santa Barbara.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2013

The funding is the largest funding in Santa Barbara County in recent history, and among the largest fundings across all of Southern California, with the exception of a couple of late stage biotechnology deals in the past year. Meritech Capital also participated in the funding.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In one of those strange moments to come out of the high tech world still in a pandemic, Santa Barbara-based Invoca--with its workers all temporarily working from home like the rest of the world apparently was taken over by 20,000 bees while people were away, according to the company.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We invite you to our upcoming in-person Founder’s event in Santa Barbara, “Fundraising in Today’s Startup Market." ​Join us for this exclusive event to hear from how Santa Barbara-based founder, Woody Sears at Autio, raised his latest funding round. Are you looking for guidance on raising capital for your venture?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Soraa , the developer of Gallium Nitride (GaN) LED lighting technology based on research out of UC Santa Barbara, has won an install of its LED lamps at Sacramento's Crocker Art Museum. The Crocker said it turned to Soraa's LED lamps due to their color rendering, which is at around 3000K, or close to sunlight.

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AUGUST 5, 2015

Santa Barbara-based energy storage technology developer Ice Energy announced today that it is opening up a new, research and development center in Riverside, with plans to immediately hire 12 at the location. megawatt deployment the company has contracted with Southern California Edison (SCE).

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. The Foundation was created in 1997 by tech pioneers, Jean and Steve Case.

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Startup Technical Review Competition Software Review 137

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OCTOBER 15, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Ice Energy , the developer of energy storage devices which use ice to offload electric grids of peak loads, said Wednesday that it has launched a new, bundled solution which combines both its energy storage and photovoltaic solar energy. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 10, 2018

Vandenberg Air Force Base , which is located in Lompoc, just North of Santa Barbara, has just installed what is the largest, photovoltaic power system in the U.S. Vandenberg is best known by those in the technology industry as the West Coast site where SpaceX launches its Falcon 9 rockets into space.

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Santa Barbara Technical Review SpaceX Sites 113

Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We are also getting ready to re-launch blog.makeitwork.com which will provide a landing page for all things tech, both from our hundreds of daily appointments solving consumer electronic problems and our content from Tech News. Here’s a couple of tips for you from the CEO of a tech services company (that’s me): 1.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We are also getting ready to re-launch blog.makeitwork.com which will provide a landing page for all things tech, both from our hundreds of daily appointments solving consumer electronic problems and our content from Tech News. Here’s a couple of tips for you from the CEO of a tech services company (that’s me): 1.

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Technical Review Santa Barbara Blogging Yammer 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Q2 fundings in Southern California were much higher, due to a giant $1.27 Another $28.68M was invested in Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Lompoc, plus Ventura. Carlsbad-based Ostendo Technologies , a developer of solid state lighting raised $41.8M billion funding round for Snapchat. for San Diego, then $189.0M

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 20, 2011

Due to their lack of practical experience, this delegation/efficiency tradeoff is especially acute with respect to hiring Interns. However, many of the characteristics of our Intern Programs were also applicable to non-technical positions, as follows: Meaningful Work – Treat your Interns as adults and magical things will happen.

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2012

One of the most original, subscription startups to come out of Southern California's tech accelerator boom emerged last week, looking to disrupt not just another retail sector or e-commerce category, but something else entirely: the airline industry. We take your application and review it. Wade Eyerly: They are incredible.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

So things that have to be done early get done early, but only at the last possible moment that the early task is due. I wrote out 3 pages of bullet point notes on paper and delivered a 20-minute speech to a crowd of entrepreneurs (which included the Minister of Technology for China). I couldn’t.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

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. He was not an expert in technology, inventory logistics or publishing. Growth Happens In Bounds And Leaps — Of Faith.

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Tips Startup Framework Customer 279

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. Tech Diligence - Consider The Source. billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 billion).

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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. That's what the Cogi service offering is all about--giving you the ability to capture, review, and share the content of your important conversations. That company was sold in 2007.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. We provide analytics on the velocity of sales across their channels.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

What's the technology behind this? We've been innovating over the last fifteen months, and have to patents pending on the technology right now. With all due respect to the business here, this is barely at the tip of the iceberg-even though we've delivered 11.3 Eric Frankel: It was "be careful what you wish for".

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SoCal Delicious

APRIL 5, 2010

Home About Us Newsstand locations Special Section Nominations Stock Index Advertising Contact Search Subscribe Weekly Features Week in Review Top 25 Lists Top Stories Local News Opinion Calendar Ongoing Events Monthly Reports Central Coast East Ventura Nonprofits Technology Small Business Women and Co. family business.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Ice Energy (www.ice-energy.com) has quietly been working away at developing energy storage systems to help smooth out the demand for energy on the nation's power grid. Can you talk about your technology? megawatts of energy. megawatts of energy. We have thirteen patents associated with the Ice bear.

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