by Michael Neville on March 9, 2010
by Matthew Burgess on March 7, 2010
Greetings. I’m Matthew Burgess, founder of SBE and Blogger-in-Chief.
When I started this blog last October, my plan was to create a site that would highlight the entrepreneurial spirit of Santa Barbara and the surrounding community by writing about the companies and entrepreneurs that I’ve met.
In my work, I’ve had a chance to meet some incredibly bright and driven entrepreneurs, and I’m blown away by the vibrancy of the business community in Santa Barbara. Not just the startups, but the ecosystem that services and supports business: angel networks, venture capital, accounting firms, law firms, IT and technology development firms, marketing experts, and so much more.
This site–SBEntrepeneur–is not a business. It was set up as a fun side project, often attended to between the hours of midnight and 2 am, after long days of working on building my business. I wasn’t sure how often I’d have to update it, but I saw it as an opportunity to give something back to the community that has been so welcoming to me and my wife, Shana, as well as to my business.
Well…Sixty-some blog posts and forty-some Events Calendar entries later, it’s taking on some life and has become a lot of fun. Michael Neville, who I’m sure many of you know, is my partner in this project. And we’ve recently brought on Emily Throckmorton to write, research, and help with social media marketing.
We’re excited about what lies ahead for SBE.
Our next push will be to follow through on the original vision: writing more frequently about great companies and their hard-working founders and leaders.
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by Emily Throckmorton on March 5, 2010
Are you looking for ways to improve your business? Learn from two leaders in their respective industries at The Tech Brew Mega Mixer at the International Women’s Festival.
About the Tech Brew Mega Mixer
First up is Alan Tratner, who will be speaking on Going Green.
In the 1990’s Alan became director of the Green Business Conference of the ECO EXPOs; created the Eco Inventors and Eco Entrepreneurs Workshops, and the New Environmental Technologies Exhibits. Alan also created the Young Eco Inventors Contest for kids. He founded the Green2Gold workshops and Incubators for sustainable enterprises to foster new renewable energy technologies and green products/services.
Then, the keynote speaker Margo Day, VP of Microsoft, will discuss several topics beneficial to the small-business owner.
Come and hear what Keynote Speaker, Margo Day, has to say on the topics of: Green Entrepreneurship, Information Technology, and [click to continue…]
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by Matthew Burgess on March 4, 2010
Building Your Startup’s Core Team
March 30th. See below for the when/where/etc.
This topic should be very interesting. John Greathouse is an engaging speaker, an executive with years of experience and success, and a great guy to boot.
Featured Executive – John Greathouse
John Greathouse has held a number of senior executive positions with successful startups: CFO and VP of Business Development for Computer Motion, CFO and SVP of Strategic Development at Citrix Online, and SVP of Sales & Business Development at CallWave. Mr. Greathouse spearheaded transactions generating more than $350 million of shareholder value for Computer Motion and Citrix, including Computer Motion’s initial public offering and the sale of Expertcity to Citrix for over $230M. Greathouse is a CPA, with an M.B.A from the Wharton School.
“BUILDING YOUR STARTUP’S CORE TEAM”
- Core values that will sustain your startup’s culture
- Startups are like a tribe – where do you sit on the tribal council? [click to continue…]
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by Michael Neville on March 3, 2010
by Matthew Burgess on March 2, 2010
by Emily Throckmorton on March 2, 2010
Hi, this is Michael Neville, and I am excited to let you know about an upcoming SABER (Santa Barbara Executive Roundtable) meeting that will feature Jim Wolfe and Dr. Klaus Schauser. The topic they will present will be: “Learn From the Experts: Secrets of being a successful entrepreneur and how to grow your business”.
