Startup America Partnership Successfully Launches Startup Santa Barbara Community
Online, June 20, 2012 (Newswire.com) - A group of seasoned entrepreneurs and leaders from an array of Santa Barbara and California entrepreneurial organizations came together to form the Santa Barbara Regional community for Startup California, in association with the Startup America Partnership. The Santa Barbara central coast region is a uniquely innovative community that qualifies for the national recognition because of the hard work of existing local groups like Startup Weekend Santa Barbara and the MIT Enterprise Forum, and MeetUp groups like Mobile Santa Barbara and SB Hackerspace, and many more.
Esteemed Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider summarizes it best: "Startup America's recognition and support of Startup Santa Barbara will help organize and energize our already thriving startup and technology communities."
Startup CA is the 24th region to join the Startup America Partnership. It combines a statewide focus on enhancing the connections between the local California ecosystems to other Startup America regions across the country, as well as a local focus on helping high growth startups in all communities across California. Startup CA [url:http://www.startupcal.org] is launching through a series of local entrepreneur-focused events in San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Orange County, and San Francisco.
As part of the Startup California launch, Startup Santa Barbara hosted its inaugural event on Monday, June 18, 2012 at the Synergy Business & Technology Center. The free event was open to entrepreneurs, students, industry, and organizations that support the Santa Barbara entrepreneurial community. Future events for Startup Santa Barbara will often be in conjunction with already existing community events to provide the greatest impact possible.
The evening's speakers, VIPs, and pitches included:
• Brian Coryat, Founder & CEO of Local Market Launch[url:http://www.localsearchoptimization.com], and founder of ValueClick (NASDQ: VCLK), AppShouter, Make It Work, SeaCoast Yachts, and Visibility Factor
• Jacob Tell, CEO Oniracom a music focused business
• Kyle Ashby, Founder of Kaldera Marketing and organizer of Startup Weekend Santa Barbara
Startup Santa Barbara will operate in tandem with Startup California and provide assistance to entrepreneurs and existing communities in expertise, services, talent acquisition, customer retention and capital funding.
The Startup Santa Barbara chapter was facilitated by Local Market Launch's Gideon Rubin, Jonathan DeLong, and Kyle Ashby. All are serial entrepreneurs with a passion for uniting businesses with the resources to succeed and young companies to grow.
For more information on Startup Santa Barbara, please visit www.meetup.com/startup-santa-barbara.
About Startup California
Startup Santa Barbara and Startup California are regions of The Startup America Partnership, a public private initiative founded by President Obama and former AOL Chairman Steve Case. The Startup America Partnership is based on a simple premise: young companies that grow create jobs. The Partnership is bringing together an alliance of major corporations, funders, service providers, mentors and advisors working to dramatically increase the prevalence and success of high-growth enterprises in the US. For more information, visit Startup California.
About Local Market Launch
Local Market Launch provides LocalSearchOptimization.com a simple online marketing solution for local businesses to be first on the web. LML offers the best suite of tools and services for local businesses to gain online visibility. Founded by Brian Coryat, an Internet marketing pioneer and founder of ValueClick (NASDQ:VCLK), Local Market Launch is based in Santa Barbara, California. For more information please visit Local Search Optimization.
For press information contact: Sydney Gardner at media@localmarketlaunch.com
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