Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

As per my video, think about the data in the following slide. Our inability to cost-effectively educate large numbers of people to compete in the future world where software really does begin to eat the world (in Marc Andreessen’s wise words). And a Final Note on Whether Silicon Valley Opportunities Remain. “ And my fear?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I started by trying to think I could explain my concept without having to patronize everybody with artificial PowerPoint slides. This approach generally works well with customers because I find it much easier to build rapport when we talk like humans than when we all stare at the PowerPoint slides being projected on the wall.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

One, is an upright, traditional looking microscopes, where you look at glass slides. Another use of capital, is we're developing two, really, really cool follow up products, also microscopes, to address the higher end market and student and education, and hospital marketplace. There are typically two types of microscopes.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

One, is an upright, traditional looking microscopes, where you look at glass slides. Another use of capital, is we're developing two, really, really cool follow up products, also microscopes, to address the higher end market and student and education, and hospital marketplace. There are typically two types of microscopes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

When most people think of training , the first thing that comes to mind is a mandatory meeting in a stuffy conference room with a boring instructor walking through poorly designed slides. The good news is there's a better way -- and it can usually be accomplished with the same amount of time and resources as a "stand and deliver" training.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2013

The challenge is to communicate your idea in one page, and close the deal quickly without a big slide presentation. Amazingly, it seems that people in business are more highly educated these days, but less well prepared than ever before. In school, you''re taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit.

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Class Course Writing Slides 93

AeA Los Angeles Council

APRIL 10, 2008

education system and "allow the best and the brightest" from around the wolrd to work in the United States. Topics include Cyberstates 2008 , High Skilled Visa Reform , STEM Education , and U.S. The bad news, he told the publication, is "The tech industry and the country risk an impending slide in U.S. Competitiveness.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JUNE 27, 2008

™s education system and immigration policies, the supply of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) workers will continue to decrease, jeopardizing the technology industry in the United States. after graduation; or (ii) take the lead and create programs that provide quality education in primary & secondary schools.

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AeA Technology Education Slides 40

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

The challenge is to communicate your idea in one page, and close the deal quickly without a big slide presentation. Amazingly, it seems that people in business are more highly educated these days, but less well prepared than ever before. In school, you're taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit.

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Course Writing Slides Email 97

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 16, 2013

The presentation is meant to give an unbiased overview of how to get involved in the tech community; what blogs to read, who to follow on Twitter, who the angel investors are, what areas in LA are home to the most startups and what resources there are to further educate yourself.

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Rustic Canyon Startup Los Angeles Class 74

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

We know language education is a huge market, with 1/7 of people around the world learning a new language. Something we didn’t know, mainstay education programs have < 1% course completion. They do this by strategically inserting words into your newsfeed with a cheeky gamifying component.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Strict boundaries and a marathon of hoops to jump through just to submit your documentation as an immigrant, are resulting in less American educated immigrants staying to pursue the process, rather opting to return to their home countries. Slide taken from MorganLewis Immigration presentation. Take the U.S. Requires an employer.

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Technical Review Startup Offshore Entrepreneur 77

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2012

We struggled figuring out what our MVP should be as there were so many possibilities, building a cool game for developers to battle each other one-one-one, online hackathons, coding education, job list for employers, ranking system and many, many more. We kept pivoting our ideas to so many things to figure out our business model.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The money slide is the graphic below. I have some educated guesses. Fred Wilson recently posted a great video on his blog with the CEO of Forrester Research, George Colony. The chart shows three scarce resources and their improvements over time. George’s Arguments.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

You will have to hone your story well, down to fifteen minutes and perhaps fifteen slides in your presentation. The strong advantage is that these organizations will stay with a company from acceptance to ultimate IPO or M&A sale, helping financially and with education, encouragement and introductions along the way.

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Equity Technical Review Class Organization 156

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

They had slides with moving images and music. Don’t confuse this with a tour-de-force education on the finer details of how your company operations. You’re there to leave an impression – not to educate. The CEO, Rahul Sonnad , played the ukulele and sang a song about what their product did.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Currently offers 3mm books to over 5,000 higher education institutions in the US. Competitor: Slide. We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. Online text book rental service. Total raised: $129.0mm. InviteMedia (acquired by Google).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. So along come companies like Slide, RockYou & Zynga who wanted to build apps across all the social networks but were green-lighted the hardest by Mark Zuckerberg.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2016

It is a “Sliding Doors” tale of a couple of life events that lift Vance and propel him to cross socio-economic lines that are increasingly harder to pierce in the United States. This is where Sliding Doors creeps in. Mamaw isn’t educated and, in fact, scorns “elites” but knows that if J.D. In each case J.D.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I guess that’s why I encouraged people to raise money while the getting’s good (PPT slides & video). That can only come through education, training and investment in regions of the country that are not IT centers. I’ll tell you what still worries me: Jobs, growth & political malaise. My prognosis?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

It eventually closed at 11,204 in April ’10 before sliding back around 10,000 as I sit here and type. In California the primary school education system has cut 10 days from the school year to save jobs. This spells further unemployment, cuts in services and a further retrenchment in middle-class spending and housing prices.

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