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

InfoChachkie

Presentation slides serve two primary purposes. One is to support a live presentation in which each slide is annotated verbally. 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.

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Five High Tech Gifts We Wish We Had Gotten This Holiday

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Here are five of the gifts--all from Southern California high tech companies--we wish we could have gotten wrapped in a present this year. The Sonos Playbar --created by Santa Barbara-based Sonos --is the ultimate sound accessory for the music and theater lover, and is particularly designed for use with your HDTV.

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Startup CEOs Lessons From Ben Affleck

InfoChachkie

These varied responsibilities are analogous to those of a startup CEO, as movie production crews are essentially temporary ventures. I recently had a chance to observe an intimate conversation between Leonard Maltin and Ben Affleck at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, where Mr. Affleck was honored with the festival's "Modern Master" award.

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Create An Industry Alliance Entrepreneurs: Need Friends On The Startup Playground

InfoChachkie

In early December of 1818, Jose de la Guerra devised a brilliant plan to thwart the French pirate Hippolyte de Bouchard who was lurking off the coast of Santa Barbara, contemplating an attack. Big Dumb Companies (BDCs) are surprisingly compliant when they are presented with a “Program”.

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Interview with SendMeHome

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Santa Barbara-based SendMeHome (www.sendmehome.com) is looking to solve that problem, with a free service to print out labels which attach to your item, and where you can register items in case they are lost. So I thought of some ideas about getting the phone back if the battery wasn't present. How do you get those items back?

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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

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So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Summer 2011 Judges! He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. and has led business analysis & user interface design projects for the U.S.

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Interview with Richard Koffler and John Morris, The Tech CEO Network

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Myself, I am now working with a medical ultrasound technology firm, working directly with the researcher and a design firm. Ultimately, once those issues are validated, it's how to go about building the product, recruiting talent, and enough capital to make it into a business. Last week, John and I met with Dina Lozofsky, now at U.C.