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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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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. Marten noted that a year after Oracle acquired InnoDB, MySQL made an unexpected announcement at their annual Users Conference. Note: I am a micro-Angel investor in Eucalyptus.

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Guerilla Marketing Fail – What I Learned From The Austin Police

InfoChachkie

I suggest you check out both the video and Seth’s entertaining depiction below. Fast forward to Socialstay, my current mobile start up which allows guest centric venues (hotels, conferences, dorms, etc…) to build and deploy custom mobile apps. This year, the annual Hospitality Technology conference was held in Austin.

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Here are More Signs that LA Tech is Moving to the Next Level

Both Sides of the Table

Michael Pfau (Santa Barbara … Reicker Pfau). And a fourth partner – Jennifer Massey – will join from an entertainment background. Sam Angus (NorCal … Fenwick & West). Scott Alderton (LA … Stubbs Alderton). Don Lee (LA … LKP). David Hernand (LA … Gibson Dunn). By now I know many more.

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A Surprising Entrepreneurial Journey To The Pinnacle Of Hollywood

InfoChachkie

You can watch John describe his surprising Hollywood journey in the following 20-minute excerpt from his recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. I am now 30 years old and the guy that''s in the opening band, who is about 42 or 43, was the hottest musician in Santa Barbara when I first came up and all I wanted to do was be him.

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(Re)Mixing It Up With Entrepreneurial Filmmaker, Kirby Ferguson

InfoChachkie

" You have been very busy, of late, speaking at various corporate events and conferences. " A number of my UC Santa Barbara students are interested in music, film and other forms of digital entertainment. I have paid attention to that performance element as it has gone along and I think it has improved."

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