The Career Channel (Audio)

Kerri Pollard is the president of Commission Junction, an online advertising company owned by ValueClick. Her primary responsibility is to oversee the operations of Commission Junction’s U.S. offices. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 24160]

The 13th annual New Venture Competition provides a hands-on opportunity for campus innovators to learn about successful venture creation, beginning with the evaluation of new business opportunities, working with potential clients/customers for market validation, crafting a concise oral pitch, drafting a compelling executive summary and financial projections, and learning how to raise necessary cap...

Mark Templeton is president and CEO of Citrix Systems, a leading provider of virtualization, networking and cloud computing technologies that let people work and play from anywhere on any device including work using virtual meetings, desktops and datacenters. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 24127]

Big Bang is the annual UC Davis Business Plan Competition organized by MBA students of the Graduate School of Management. The goal of the contest is to promote entrepreneurship at UC Davis and the region supported by the university. Series: "UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Executive Speakers and Special Events" [Business] [Show ID: 24106]

Jim Moffatt, Chairman and CEO of Deloitte Consulting, LLP, gives his perspectives on leadership in this presentation at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Series: "UCLA Anderson School of Management Distinguished Speaker Series" [Business] [Show ID: 23884]

Will Marré , Co-Founder of the Covey Leadership Center, offers an inspiring talk for executives, managers and recent graduates on how to take control of their careers by maximizing their talents, passions and opportunities. Marrés presentation was the keynote address at a day-long Career Boost Camp sponsored by UC San Diego Alumni and UCSD Extension’s Center for Life/Work Strategies. Series: "Care...

Unite to Light, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit entity based in Santa Barbara which designs, manufactures, and distributes low cost solar powered lighting to citizens of developing countries. The principals explain why and how their version of a socially responsible entrepreneurial company was launched, along with their business philosophy in executing its operations. Series: "Innovator Stories: Cr...

The MIT Forum - in a joint program with UCSB’s Technology Management Program - addresses how the current negative economic climate has made fund-raising for startups much more complicated. Three experts, each of whom represent different segments of the investment community: angel investing, VC investing, and private equity venture investing, will share their insights on leveraging and maximizing o...

Michael Dukakis served an unprecedented three, four-year terms as governor of Massachusetts and was the 1988 Democratic nominee for president. Since leaving office, he has served as a visiting professor at many colleges and universities including Harvard University, University of Hawaii, Northeastern University and UCLA. Series: "UC Davis Chancellor's Colloquium Distinguished Speaker Series" [Publ...

Jason Nazar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Docstoc.com, the premier online website for small businesses that provides a selection of documents and resources to help start, grow and manage your small business and professional life. Docstoc is a top 500 worldwide website that reaches over 20M people a month. Jason was previously a partner at Venature LLC, a consulting group focused on accelerating the...

Adult language: Seth Epstein is a creative CEO/start up entrepreneur and Emmy award winner for the rebrand of the X-Games. From humble beginnings in a garage, Seth built a pioneering creative agency, which was later acquired by Razorfish. Seth has directed commercials, rebranded TV networks globally, overseen web re-brands of all sizes, rebranded companies and products, architected e-commerce solu...

Roger Strauch is Chairman of The Roda Group, a seed stage venture capital group, based in Berkeley, California focused on clean technology. His firm, co-founded in 1997 with Dan Miller, provides entrepreneurs the resources, environment, and guidance to launch and grow their high technology businesses. Series: "Distinguished Innovator Lectures" [Business] [Show ID: 23263]

Garrett is a co-founder of Alta, and was also a Partner at Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co. founder of Ask.com and a co-founder of Alta Partners. He has more than two decades of experience in the fields of software development, systems engineering and corporate development. Garrett also founded Ask Jeeves, now Ask. Com, a leading Internet search engine which is now part of IAC. Series: "Distinguished Inn...

Keval Desai discusses his 20 year history in Silicon Valley, including time spent at Google and Digg. He relates his experiences in product management with mobile and Internet start-ups. Series: "Distinguished Innovator Lectures" [Business] [Show ID: 23023]

Alex Le, executive producer of CityVille by Zynga, discusses his experiences as an entrepreneur in the era of social network games. Series: "Distinguished Innovator Lectures" [Business] [Show ID: 23022]

Tom Byers brings his passion for teaching and communicating with technology venture students to this talk on his path to entrepreneurship, with anecdotes about both the successful and not so successful experiences that shaped his evolving career. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 22003]

Explore the legal needs of tech starts ups with Lawrence Cohn who represents medical device, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and investors in their corporate transactions, private venture capital and public securities financing, mergers and acquisitions, licensing, strategic alliances, and technology transfers. His clients range from early-stage start-ups to public companies with global...

Jeff Sandefer runs an energy investment firm, Sandefer Capital Partners, that holds over a billion dollars in assets. For the last sixteen years, Mr. Sandefer has also taught entrepreneurship at the graduate level. Four years ago Mr. Sandefer and a band of successful entrepreneurs left a nationally recognized program they had built at the University of Texas to start the Acton School of Business....

Darrell Brown, Senior Vice President, US Bank, argues that in order to teach managers to be successful and prosperous where others fail, one must engage an entrepreneurial mindset in a world that embraces the status quo. Series: "Creativity and Innovation" [Humanities] [Business] [Show ID: 21578]

Rich Lechner Vice President, Energy & Environment, IBM "Sustainability on a Smarter Planet" Abstract The world is becoming increasingly instrumented, interconnected, and intelligent - in a word, 'smarter'. Organizations now have the ability to see the exact condition of practically everything in near real-time and can leverage this information to achieve financial, environmental, social, and opera...

Brett Bullington is a serial entrepreneur currently an active Angel Investor and board member working with entrepreneurs to build their businesses. He is also a board member of Carolina for Kibera, an organization working to alleviate poverty in the Kibera slum of Nairobi. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 22759]

Ann Winblad is one of very few women who are venture capitalists. From a background in the software industry, to the first company she co-founded, Ann built a career that has propelled her into the technology investment arena. Her skills and smarts show how gender has nothing to do with what it takes to become a respected investor with a successful venture company. Series: "Innovator Stories: Crea...

Dave Hofstatter describes how his entrepreneurship, beginning at an early age, took him through the ups and downs of creating, and then investing in, successful technology companies guided only by his wits, his technical skills, and determination. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 22005]

Jon Funk shares his insights into what makes new technology startups appealing to investors and what he’s learned, over the years, from the successes and failures of the companies he’s invested in. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 22004]

Canaan Partners describes themselves as venture catalysts. Join Deepak Kamra as he talks about how he became a venture capitalist, the startups he funded, and the ones that got away. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 21405]