Podcasts about sliderocket

Mike Lingle is a software developer and entrepreneur who currently mentors founders and has build tools to help build better financial projections for startups. Mike co-founded SlideRocket, which at the time of launch was a revolutionary cloud-based presentation software. SlideRocket was acquired by VMWare within 30 months of the company's initial VC funding.Mike studied at the University of Pennsylvania and is currently an Entrepreneur in Residence at Babson College, where he teaches classes on startup financials. Mike has mentored over 1,000 startup founders and shares his wisdom for increasing a founder's chances of success. We discuss SlideRocket's launch and eventual exit, how engineers can become successful entrepreneurs, how to build and create better financial models and the future of business education.  Discussion Topics:(2:00) Pausing to pursue a dream passion project post-exit.(6:30) Start-up to exit with SlideRocket.(24:12) Advice for engineer entrepreneurs.(27:40) Recruiting technical founders.(29:56) Guidance for building better financial models.(45:08) The future of business school education.(50:50) Common mistakes made by young founders.(53:21) Rapid fire questions.

In today's podcast I am joined by Mike Lingle. Mike is an experienced executive focused on helping global organizations achieve exponential transformation through the lens of emerging technologies and disruptive innovation. He is a successful entrepreneur, experienced software developer, and mentor running accelerator programs for startups. He co-founded SlideRocket.com, a SaaS-based platform for sales and marketing presentations that was acquired by VMWare in 2011. Mike works as the Chief Growth Officer and Crypto Lead at ExO Works. You can email Mike at mike@exo.works. I hope you enjoy and found this episode valuable. If you would like to talk about any of these concepts further, then let’s chat. You can book me online using Calendly at https://calendly.com/ideastorm, contact me through my website at www.ideastorm.co.za or email me directly at lancepeppler@gmail.com.

Mitch Grasso is the founder and CEO of Beautiful.AI, presentation software that will revolutionize how people create visually stunning presentations. He has more than 20 years of entrepreneurial experience building and leading design-orientated tech companies from early stage ideation to market leadership. He previously founded and served as CEO of SlideRocket. “ruthlessly questioning yourself making sure that you really know why you are doing what you are doing and not just doing it because people are saying that's what you should be doing. You have got to be honest to yourself, you have got to be self-aware to know what you are good at and what you are not good at, where you need help. Just whether or not what you are doing makes sense… Being able to communicate that value properly, make sure that you are building something that people are going to be interested in and you have got a path to get there. And figuring that out is really the first step to building a business”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-78n

Episode 52: We spoke with Mitch Grasso, CEO at Beautiful.AI, a company creating a newer and smarter way to design your presentations. Prior to Beautiful.AI, Mitch founded SlideRocket which was acquired by VMWare. We discuss raising venture funding, his approach to customer acquisition, important design rules, and more. Mitch is a serial entrepreneur with strong technology, design and product skills. Prior to Beautiful.AI, he founded SlideRocket, cloud-based presentation productivity software focused on team collaboration and co-founded AdSpace Networks, a digital signage network deployed to over 200 malls and reaching over 48M unique viewers/month. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/besttechie/support

Episode 49 "Beautiful" is subjective, as is slide design, which Troy, Nolan, Sandy and our guest Mitch Grasso have strong opinions on. Mitch adds great insights into presentation design as founder of SlideRocket (acquired by VMware in 2011) and now Beautiful.ai (an online presentation design app that launched February 6, 2018). Like TV shows that use a news headline for an episode storyline, we take Mitch's new company name, and its mission, as our conversation topic and discuss what makes a beautiful presentation.   Full Episode Show Notes http://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/49   Show Suggestions? Questions for your Hosts? Email us at: info@thepresentationpodcast.com   Listen and review on iTunes. Thanks! http://apple.co/1ROGCUq   New Episodes 1st and 3rd Tuesday Every Month

Nat Robinson is the Head of Marketing at MileIQ, a mobile that functions as an automatic mileage tracker for driving deductions and expenses. It has revolutionized the workflows as well as saved time and money for a variety of users from self-employed professionals to large enterprise organizations. MileIQ’s parent company, Mobile Data Labs, was acquired by Microsoft in late 2015. Prior to MileIQ, Nat was the VP of Marketing at VMWare and worked with SlideRocket, a PowerPoint competitor. He started his marketing career at Oracle, where he spent 13 years ultimately serving as a VP of Corporate Marketing. The topics discussed in this episode include how your product could be your best marketing, an example of approaching acquisition from the bottom up, and the value of the emotional response created by your product.

We talk sales, the art of teaching instead of selling, & a lot more. Mike Lingle is an experienced entrepreneur who’s passionate about helping companies grow. He’s also a recent transplant to Miami after 20 years in NYC. He has built companies, raised money, managed software projects, and sold startup technology to customers including HBO, Disney, Western Union, Sony, AT&T, PwC, and Ferrari. Mike is an optimizer, and spends most of his time helping founders figure out how to make their businesses succeed. Prior to his advisor role, Mike helped launch several companies including SlideRocket, a cloud-based platform for creating and managing presentations that secured $7 million from VCs and was acquired by VMWare in 2011. http://mikelingle.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikelingle

Successful entrepreneur advising tech startups on fundraising, strategy, sales, and marketing. Mentor at Venture Hive. Co-founder of www.SlideRocket.com, a software-as-a-service enterprise presentation platform that was acquired by VMWare in 2011. More info at www.tonicstudios.com. I am an experienced technology executive with strategy, sales, fundraising, product management, marketing, and P&L experience. History of success delivering innovation in both software-as-a-service and mobile business models. mikelingle.com www.linkedin.com/in/mikelingle twitter.com/mike_lingle

Successful entrepreneur advising tech startups on fundraising, strategy, sales, and marketing. Mentor at Venture Hive. Co-founder of www.SlideRocket.com, a software-as-a-service enterprise presentation platform that was acquired by VMWare in 2011. More info at www.tonicstudios.com. I am an experienced technology executive with strategy, sales, fundraising, product management, marketing, and P&L experience. History of success delivering innovation in both software-as-a-service and mobile business models. http://mikelingle.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikelingle https://twitter.com/mike_lingle

            whoops…we said this was show #97. We were ahead of ourselves; it’s show #96! Topic: Prepping for Presenting at Conferences Prezi webpage, demo, tutorials Sliderocket webpage, tutorials   Articles for this Week: Pause your email to get some real work done (Business Hacks) How (and Why) to Participate in […]

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The latest online presentation tools including Prezi, SlideRocket and others rely on Flash, and don’t allow you to create or edit your presentations on iPad – neither on Safari nor on their ‘viewer’ apps. Even Google and Zoho Docs, and Microsoft Office 365 have limited features on iPad. This video series shows you how tips [...]

This week Mark and Shawn are joined by Nat Robinson, V.P. Marketing and Business Development for Sliderocket to talk about one of their favorite web-based presentation tools.

Will Price Chief Executive Officer,  Widgetbox Prior to joining Widgetbox, Will was a Managing Director at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Will played a key role in the firm’s investments in Move Networks, Replay Solutions, Mulesource, Star Analytics, Hubpages, Widgetbox, Kwiry, Infopia and SlideRocket. Prior to joining Hummer Winblad, Will was a Senior Vice President with Pequot Ventures, where he focused on investments in information technology. Previously, Will served as CEO and COO of several software start-ups. He has also worked with the Boston Consulting Group, Infinity Financial Technology and Morgan Stanley. Will graduated from Harvard College and earned his M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University where he graduated at the top of his class.

Will Price Chief Executive Officer,  Widgetbox Prior to joining Widgetbox, Will was a Managing Director at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Will played a key role in the firm’s investments in Move Networks, Replay Solutions, Mulesource, Star Analytics, Hubpages, Widgetbox, Kwiry, Infopia and SlideRocket. Prior to joining Hummer Winblad, Will was a Senior Vice President with Pequot Ventures, where he focused on investments in information technology. Previously, Will served as CEO and COO of several software start-ups. He has also worked with the Boston Consulting Group, Infinity Financial Technology and Morgan Stanley. Will graduated from Harvard College and earned his M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University where he graduated at the top of his class.

Welcome to DualBoot Episode 1. In This episode, Spencer And Steve Talk About Web Applications, like Google Documents, and Web Services, Like Flickr Online Photo Sharing. Below, You will find a list of most of the things we covered in this episode. Thanks For listening To DualBoot! Google Docs Mobile Interface Replacing Microsoft Word in many ways Meebo- www.meebo.com Replacing my desktop IM apps. Integrates with AIM, Google Talk, MSN and Yahoo! SlideRocket- www.sliderocket.com Keynote-quality presentations, Great effects! Browser Based Private Beta, this is not a good thing Flickr- www.flickr.com Online photo sharing online photo hosting integrates with Picnik Hulu- www.hulu.com Watch TV from your PC or Mac Online full episodes and clips Out of beta Clearspring- www.clearspring.com Make html and flash widgets of almost any web page Cameroid- www.cameroid.com Take snapshots of yourself from your webcam Like Photo Booth, but web based Jott- www.jott.com Email From Your Phone Blog (wordpress) from your phone No Text Messaging Required Integrates with Twitter Picnik- www.picnik.com Better and easier than Photoshop Elements Replacing photo editing software on the desktop Animoto- www.animoto.com Make fast, beautiful slideshows that correspond with music replacing slideshows public beta