Technology Management Program, UCSB

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2013 Articles & Press

May 23, 2013
New Venture Competition Finals 2013 Coverage
Pacific Coast Business Times
Noozhawk
Daily Nexus
Santa Barbara News-Press

May 21, 2013
Daily Nexus
Six Teams Advance to Finals in Product Marketing Contest

May 5, 2013
Noozhawk
UCSB Student Entrepreneurs Step Into Future with Next Generation Summit

April 25, 2013
Daily Nexus
New Venture Competition Features Student Startups

April 24, 2013
Noozhawk
Goleta Entrepreneurial Magnet Names Doug Lynch Its First Executive Director

Februaru 14, 2013
Daily Nexus
UCSB To Offer New Business Degree

January 29, 2013
Noozhawk
UCSB Technology Management Program to Offer Graduate Degrees

2012 Articles & Press

November 8, 2012
Press Release
Inogen (2001 New Venture Competition Winner) Releases the Inogen One G3 Portable Oxygen Concentrator, Its Smallest and Lightest System Yet.

October 11, 2012
Press Release
New Venture Competition winner Birdeez awarded one of 5 prestigious awards for their product launch at DEMO Fall 2012

October 3, 2012
VentureBeat
DEMO Gods: Birds, brains and best products of the season

October 3, 2012
VentureBeat
Today, birdwatching. Tomorrow, saving the entire planet!

October 2, 2012
TechHive
Birdeez app flies toward birdwatchers' iPhones

September 17, 2012
Forbes
New Startups from Plug and Play Tech Center's Fall Expo

September 14, 2012
Pacific Coast Business Times
Software in the toolkit

September 13, 2012
Silicon Valley San Jose Business Journal
Expo winners apply digital solutions to real world.

July 3, 2012
Press Release
Brightblu becomes first UCSB resident at Plug and Play

June 26, 2012
FastCompany
Spray On Sprayer: An Edible Organic Coating Saves Your Fruit

June 25, 2012
Press Release
Tech Start-up Luminary Honored as Business Leader and Student Mentor

June 15, 2012
Press Release
TMP Awards Undergraduate and Graduate Entrepreneurial certificates to over 100 students.

June 1, 2012
Santa Barbara Independent
UCSB Announces Winners of Venture Contest

May 15, 2012
Noozhawk
UCSB Technology Management Program Announces Winners of New Venture Competition

May 9, 2012
Pacific Coast Business Times
Berry Good: Fruit Coating Technology Wins Startup Contest

April 20, 2012
Pacific Coast Business Times
Bird-watching Apps and Electric Porsches: Startups Pitch Ideas

April 11, 2012
Press Release
UCSB Student a Top Competitor in DOE National Clean Energy Challenge

January 31, 2012
Daily Nexus
Contest Seeks Startup Ideas, Aspiring Entrepreneurs
by Kristin Crosier

January 6, 2012
Press Release
UCSB Entrepreneur Contest Aims for Next Big Technology Venture

January 5, 2012
Press Release
Business Thought Leaders Featured in UCSB Lecture Series

2011 Articles & Press

November 16, 2011
Pacific Coast Business Times
Panel tackles startup funding
by Stephen Nellis
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November 13, 2011
Santa Barbara KEYT News
In Focus, Venture Capital Forum
by Scott Hurst
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November 1, 2011
BusinessInsider.com
A Serial Entrepreneur's Take On Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson's Venture Deals
by John Greathouse
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Business Leaders in D.C.

October 26, 2011
Santa Barbara News-Press
South Coast business leaders trade ideas, solutions in D.C.
by Michael Elseth
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February 3, 2011
Daily Nexus
Students Compete for Chance to Fund Business Ventures
by Marissa Wenzke
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January 27, 2011
Daily Nexus
Gaucho Grads Gadget Locates Lost Belongings
by Marissa Wenzke
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2010 Articles & Press

November 6, 2010
Daily Sound
Ultimate Bagels booms on State Street after one year
by Jeremy Nisen
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August 2, 2010
UCSB Press Release
"UCSB Professor Sees Medical Breakthrough
in New Bone Measurement Tool"
Prof. Paul Hansma reports on the application of a new medical diagnostic tool –– the Reference Point Indentation(RPI) instrument, to bone tissue research. This tool is now sold by ActiveLife Inc., a company spun out UCSB by TMP graduates Davis Brimmer and Alex Proctor.
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May 14, 2010
Daily Nexus
Business-Savvy Students Compete to Win Money
by Kristen Peters
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April 2-8, 2010
Pacific Coast Business Times vol. 11, no. 4
Testing the Breaking Point
by Steven Nellis
Interview with TMP graduates Davis Brimmer and Alex Proctor of ActiveLife Inc.
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March 23, 2010
Wired Magazine
Phone Halo Helps You Track Lost Keys, Wallet
By Priya Ganapati
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March 4, 2010
PRLog (Press Release)
Inogen Releases Inogen One G2 Portable Oxygen Concentrator

Inogen Inc. (winner of the TMP 2001 New Venture Competition) has announced the release of the new Inogen One G2 Portable Oxygen Concentrator. This is an improvement on their original concentrator the Inogen One released in late 2004. The G2 is designed to be more patient friendly and easier to use.
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January 27-31, 2010
World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

World Economic Forum Davos 2010 TMP Distinguished Lecturer, Kevin Surace and Serious Materials were chosen for the World Economic Forum’s 2010 Technology Pi oneers Program inthe category of Energy and the Environment. Kevin’s company was one of only 26 selected based on its technology innovation and the potential for long-term impacts on business and society. Christina Borgese

TMP alumna Christina Borgese is a Senior Process Engineer at BioFuelBox, another of the 26 companies honored in the WEF Tech Pioneers Program program for Energy and Environment. BioFuelBox helps companies and municipalities by providing a low-cost and environmentally-friendly way to dispose of their waste FOG-fats, oils, and greases, and providing high-volume consumers with a greenalternative to petroleum diesel without a high price tag.

January 9, 2010
Wall Street Journal
CES: Never Lose the CrackBerry Again
Featured product from former New Venture Competition Winner Phone Halo
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2009 Articles & Press

Winter 2009
CoastLines Magazine, Vol. 39, No. 3
Technology Management Program Partners with One Laptop per Child
Through a partnership with the One Laptop per Child Project the UC Santa Barbara Technology Management Program provided XO laptops to a Kellogg Elementary School third-grade class. Now, the Goleta, Calif., students can communicate with Kenyan students who are also equipped with the XO laptops.
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April 14, 2009
Semiconductor International
"Inlustra Starts Nonpolar GaN Production"
By David Lammers
Inlustra said it is beginning to deliver nonpolar GaN substrates to customers. Started in 2005 as a spin-out from UC Santa Barbara, the company says it has developed proprietary techniques to significantly reduce the number of defects in nonpolar GaN substrates, resulting in improved LED yields.
Image: Although conventional GaN devices are built on c-plane substrates, Inlustra is producing m-plane and a-plane (nonpolar) material.
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April 13, 2009
SocialTECH.com
"Inlustra Starts Production"
Santa Barbara-based Inlustra, a firm developing Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductor materials, announced this morning that the firm has begun delivering its products to customers.
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March 26, 2009
Santa Barbara Independent
"Introducing Dura Doggie Disc -
UCSB Seniors Unleash a New Dog Toy After Taking Entrepreneurship Class"
By Sara Tan
Every dog has its day. For Chase McElroy, Raad Mobrem, and Jonathan Luna Rivera, their days are just getting started. These three UCSB seniors are the proud entrepreneurs behind Dura Doggie Disc, the “indestructible, Frisbee-toy that turns into a food and water bowl.” Bright, hardworking, and ambitious, the three 22-year-olds are attempting to take on the $20 billion dollar pet toy industry with what they believe to be an already successful product.
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