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Making it click: Shopatron CEO taps into 25 years in business with book
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For Ed Stevens, the CEO of San Luis Obispo-based Shopatron, the path to changing how the world shops started in Russia just after the end of the Cold War.
HG Data raises $2M, looks to Asia
Santa Barbara-based business intelligence firm HG Data has raised $2 million in venture capital from EPIC Ventures. HG Data’s technology combs millions of web documents and offline sources to create comprehensive databases of business relationships. In 2012, for example, the company released a census of which worksites were operating thousands of specific kinds of software, Read More →
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Many tri-county entrepreneurs skeptical of startup JOBS Act
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Give until it zooks! – Online fundraiser helps region
Even if givezooks! didn’t exactly coin the term “social fundraising,” the company is at least looking to revolutionize the concept. A Santa Barbara-based Internet startup, givezooks! is using the power of social networking tools to transform the way nonprofits and other grassroots campaigns fundraise and connect with donors. “Social fundraising, as we call it, is Read More →