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

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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. We were talking about an upcoming conference when he declared, "I hate PowerPoint. What's Your Story? Share and Enjoy.

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How This Startup Kicked Oracle’s A$$

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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. Yet Another Overnight Success.

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A Surprising Entrepreneurial Journey To The Pinnacle Of Hollywood

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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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