Align employees with your company culture
By Sumantra Sengupta Over the years, I have had the pleasure of serving a range of organizations from cool startups to the Fortune 100 global giants. Very little of what I learned in business school prepared me for the various mental machinations that I had to perform to align and succeed in these different environments. Read More →
Ojai explores using surplus school property for startup incubator
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Cal Poly SLO HotHouse incubator takes on three new startups
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UCSB researchers to study biological effects of decommissioning Venoco’s Platform Holly
UC Santa Barbara researchers will study the biological effects of decommissioning options for Venoco’s Platform Holly on local fish and wildlife populations. The oil and gas company ceded the platform in April to the state, which has the option of either removing the structure completely or leaving a portion of it in place as an Read More →
How pirate tactics built an entrepreneurial ecosystem
By Reneé Rock “It’s better to be a pirate than to join the navy.” When Steve Jobs uttered this phrase, he was speaking to the Mac team, which had become a kind of splinter group with its own identity within Apple. Jobs knew what he was up against at fast-growing Apple and intuitively understood that Read More →
CSU Channel Islands developing housing on campus
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Residents can learn from international students
By Loredana Carson International students planning to attend colleges and universities in the tri-county area may fear being unwelcome due to media coverage of negative comments, but once they arrive they are generally met with a lack of attention. Students in my classes have expressed dismay to me that they don’t often have the opportunity Read More →
