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Avoid Death By PowerPoint – Create Slides That Don’t Suck

InfoChachkie

For instance, I might show a logo of Computer Motion, GoToMeeting, Citrix, UC Santa Barbara and Rincon Venture Partners on my first slide as a means of depicting my past and current professional affiliations. More Is Less - I recently had lunch with a friend who is a highly successful entertainment industry executive.

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Why Millennial Entrepreneurs Should Never Watch Shark Tank Alone

InfoChachkie

The reality television show Shark Tank makes for entertaining content but many of its underlying messages are potentially detrimental to tech entrepreneurs. I get that Shark Tank is a TV show focused on entertaining its viewers. Experienced entrepreneurs have no issues parsing where reality stops and entertainment begins.

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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

InfoChachkie

You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. Putting their expensive educations to good use, they aptly named their novelty product a "MouseDriver". an email) to about 35 people.

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How This Startup Kicked Oracle’s A$$

InfoChachkie

You can watch Marten tell his entertaining story in the following 15-minute excerpt from his UC Santa Barbara talk. According to Marten, "Suddenly, when we were building our business and we thought that this very vital component of our product would be part of us, suddenly it was owned by one of our competitors.

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Interview with Eric Frankel, StarGreetz

socalTECH

It also allows celebrities to talk to their fans, and offer them the opportunity purchase innovative, digital, personalized products like e-cards and invitiations. If you're an IP holder, if you're Coldplay, you can generate revenue from our innovative digital products, while building your fan base. How did the company come about?

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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

InfoChachkie

You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. Putting their expensive educations to good use, they aptly named their novelty product a "MouseDriver". an email) to about 35 people.

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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

Tech Zulu Event

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.