Slideshare
Startup/business
California,
United States
http://www.slideshare.net/
SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations.
- Individuals & organizations upload presentations to share their
ideas, connect with others, and generate leads for their businesses.
- Anyone can find presentations on topics that interest them. They can
tag, download, or embed presentations into their own blogs &
websites.
SlideShare is the best way to get your slides out there on the web, so your ideas can be found and shared by a wide audience. Do you want to get the word out about your product or service? Do you want your slides to reach people who could not make it to your talk? Are you a teacher looking to share your lesson plans? It only takes a moment - start uploading now, and let your slides do the talking!
Some of the things you can do on SlideShare
- Embed slideshows into your own blog or website.- Share slideshows publicly or privately. There are several ways to share privately.
- Synch audio to your slides.
- Market your your event on slideshare.
- Join groups to connect with SlideShare members who share your interests
- Download the original PowerPoint / Pdf file
Management Bio
Rashmi Sinha, CEO (Rashmi's Slidespace)
Rashmi manages design and community for SlideShare. She has
consulted on user experience projects for companies like eBay,
iFilm, AAA and Blue Shield. She lead the team that created
MindCanvas, a rich online survey platform for designers.
MindCanvas has been used by companies like Microsoft, CitiBank,
Expedia and Yahoo.
She has a PhD in Psychology from Brown University, but decided
she prefers building things, rather than writing academic articles.
She blogs at www.rashmisinha.com.
Write to her if you are interested in partnerships, advertising etc.
She can be reached at rashmi@slideshare.net
Jonathan Boutelle, Head Geek (Jon's Slidespace)
Jon is the head geek of SlideShare. He came up with the initial
idea, and wrote the first version of the site. He studied
Computer Science at Brown University. He started his career
writing computer graphics code at AVS. He then spent several
years working in the enterprise ecommerce space as a software
engineer at CommerceOne.
Jon writes a blog focused on rich internet technologies (AJAX,
Flash, Flex et al) at www.jonathanboutelle.com. You can reach
him at jon@slideshare.net.
Amit Ranjan, Product Manager (Amit's Slidespace)
Amit heads the team that is building SlideShare.
Amit has a previous background in product marketing, sales &
consumer research. His last job was with PepsiCo; prior to
PepsiCo, he worked with Asian Paints & Godrej. He holds an MBA
from the Faculty of Management Studies, Univ Of Delhi and a
Mechanical Engineering degree from REC/NIT, Jaipur.
Amit is very active on the Indian startup circuit. He authors
Webyantra, India's most widely read Web 2.0 blog. And he is part of
the organizing team of Proto.in, India's premier event for
showcasing tech startups. You can reach him at
Guy Kawasaki (Guy's Slidespace)
Guy Kawasaki is the co-founder of Truemors and a managing
director of Garage Technology Ventures. He is also a columnist
for Entrepreneur Magazine. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at
Apple Computer, Inc. Guy is the author of eight books including
The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive
Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh
Way. He has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from
UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.
Hal R. Varian (Hal's Slidespace)
Hal R. Varian is Chief Economist at Google. He is also Class of 1944
Professor at the School of Information (iSchool), the Haas School
of Business, and the Department of Economics at the University
of California, Berkeley. From 1995-2002, he served as the founding
dean of SIMS.
Professor Varian is a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the
Econometric Society, and the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences. He has served as Co-Editor of the American Economic
Review and is on the editorial boards of several journals.
Professor Varian has published numerous papers in economic
theory, industrial organization, financial economics, econometrics
and information economics. He is the author of two major
economics textbooks which have been translated into 22
languages. His current research has been concerned with
the economics of information technology and the information
economy. He is the co-author of a bestselling book on business
strategy, Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network
Economy and writes a monthly column for the The New York Times.
Ross Mayfield (Ross's Slidespace)
Ross Mayfield is CEO & Co-founder of Socialtext, the first wiki
company and leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions. A noted
blogger and industry expert, he is a serial and social
entrepreneur. Mayfield has grown Socialtext to over 2,000
customers with Software-as-a-Service, Appliance and Open Source
solutions. Mayfield partnered with Dan Bricklin, the creator of
the first spreadsheet visiCalc, to co-develop and distribute
SocialCalc. Socialtext is backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, SAP
Ventures and Omidyar Network.
Previously, Mayfield served as VP of Marketing for a Fujitsu
spinout and CEO of an enterprise risk management software
company. Mayfield co-founded and served as president of
RateXchange (AMEX:RTX). He also served as the
marketing director of the largest privately held telecommunications
group in Eastern Europe. He also founded an ISP, a web-design
company, and has served on a number of Advisory Boards of high
tech startups.
Mayfield is a former advisor to the Office of the President of
Estonia and began his career in the non-profit sector. He holds a
B.A. in Political Science from the University of California at
Los Angeles and completed the Management Development for
Entrepreneurs (MDE) program of the Anderson School of Business.
He resides in his hometown of Palo Alto with his wife and two
children.
Dave McClure
Dave McClure has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for over
fifteen years as a software developer, entrepreneur, startup
advisor, angel investor, blogger, and internet marketing nerd.
He is currently an advisor or investor for Mint Software,
Spock Networks, Mashery, Simply Hired, TeachStreet,
Oortle, CrazyEgg, Eventvue, AppFuel, HealthUnity, and
Dave is the conference chair for Graphing Social Patterns, and a
co-chair for O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo. He is also a guest lecturer at
Stanford University for a new course on building Facebook
Apps. Dave is a board member for microfinance accelerator
Unitus, advisor to microfinance lender Kiva.org, and a co-founder
of the Silicon Valley Microfinance Network.
From 2005 to 2006, Dave launched & ran marketing for job
search engine SimplyHired.com, and its evil twin
SimplyFired.com. From 2001 to 2004, Dave worked at PayPal
(acquired by eBay in 2002) as Director of Marketing, where he
founded & ran the PayPal Developer Network program. Prior
to PayPal, Dave was a database consultant & programmer for
several companies, including Microsoft and Intel. In 1994 he
founded Aslan Computing, an internet & e-commerce firm that
was later acquired by Servinet/Panurgy in
1998.
Before coming to Silicon Valley, Dave barely graduated from
the Johns Hopkins University with a BS in Mathematical Sciences
Engineering and a minor in frisbee, billiards, & foosball. His
interests include microfinance and economic innovation,
entrepreneurship and venture capital, ultimate frisbee, cartoons
and animation, and an ever-growing collection of funny-looking
hats.
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