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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. In particular, TED speakers make extremely effective use of presentation tools. What's Your Story?

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Mini-ventures Build Entrepreneurial Muscle (And Can Lead To Big Businesses)

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I encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to launch mini-ventures while in school so they will begin to see the opportunities that surround them. The best advice in Guy Kawasaki’s The Art Of The Start is on page 9, where he states, “Get Going.” Once the Ball Starts Bouncing, You Never Know Where It Will Stop. Share and Enjoy.

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Mini-ventures Build Entrepreneurial Muscle (And Can Lead To Big Businesses)

InfoChachkie

I encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to launch mini-ventures while in school so they will begin to see the opportunities that surround them. The best advice in Guy Kawasaki’s The Art Of The Start is on page 9, where he states, “Get Going.” Along the way, they grab some cash while stressing their entrepreneurial muscles.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. I was learning Ruby on Rails just ahead of the students and wrote the tools to help them manage the servers in EC2. Cats or dogs?

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

InfoChachkie

This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition.

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Take On Guy Kawasaki’s Enchantment

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If you are a leader at a startup and you are reading a business book, you are not closing customers, raising capital, improving your product, or spending time with your loved ones. I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years.

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Interview with Zareh Baghdasarian, 15desks

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They have more knowledge of what a student's life is about, which is much better than a one page resume. They were at UCSB, which needed a tool like this, and after they had developed it, they were trying to see what next steps to take. The other part of this is an app store. They have developed this from a need.

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