SlideShare

Source: www.webware.com --- 5 days ago
Many people think PowerPoint is a reason for a nap. But an Internet start-up that helps people share slideshows online has got the attention of several prominent Silicon Valley investors. On Thursday, San Francisco-based SlideShare will announce that it has landed a $3 million series A investment from venture capitalist Venrock and individuals including Broadcast.com founder Mark Cuban, Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams and David McClure of 500 Hats. Venrock general partner David Siminoff, an early investor in Yahoo and eBay, will join the company's board. The company's advisory board also includes Hal Varian, who's chief economist at Google, Garage Technology Ventures managing director Guy Kawasaki, and Saul Klein, founding partner of The Accelerator Group. So why the interest in slideshows? Since its launch in October 2006, SlideShare has turned into a kind of YouTube for PowerPoint junkies, albeit in a much smaller way. Using the site, people can share their text-and-image presentations, tag their favorites, or respond to another person's slideshow with their own creation. People can also create a mash-up of music tracks and PowerPoint. (People can upload slideshows using Microsoft PowerPoint, Open Office or the PDF format). In the last year, as many as 400,000 registered users have added 300,000 slideshows to the site, according to Rashmi Sinha, CEO and cofounder of SlideShare. Still, one of the site's most popular ...

Source: www.techcrunch.com --- 5 days ago
Sometimes the simplest ideas are best. While a number of startups are working to bring the whole process of creating presentations online, SlideShare recognizes that many people are mostly satisfied with PowerPoint or Keynote. They just want an easy way to share their traditional presentation files with others. So the company took the YouTube strategy of [...] ...

Source: fr.mashable.com --- 4 days ago
rmbrME (se lit Remember me) est un nouveau service qui permet de partager son identité virtuelle (différents liens vers son blog, ses pages profils sur les réseaux sociaux…) directement par SMS. Après Seesmic ou encore Viddler, Disqus, le service de tracking de commentaires (similaire à co.mments ou encore IntenseDebate) dont on vous a déjà parlé, va [...] ...

Source: www.pbs.org --- 2 days ago
For those of you who get as bored as I do watching PowerPoints and other passive slide presentations, there’s a new generation of presentation tools embracing interaction, discussion and community building. I’ve been particularly fascinated by the educational potential of two of them: SlideShare and VoiceThread. ...

Source: mashable.com --- 5 days ago
Presentation-sharing community SlideShare has raised $3 million in Series A funding, led by Venrock. David Siminoff, a partner at Venrock, has also joined SlideShare’s board of directors. Siminoff has joined the ranks of some of the other industry vets that make up SlideShare’s investors and advisory board, which currently includes Guy Kawasaki (founder [...] ...

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Source: venturebeat.com --- 5 days ago
| View | Upload your own SlideShare, a company that lets you upload Powerpoint presentations to the web then share them with others, has raised $3 million from Venrock. Its site has been growing increasingly fast since it launched in 2006, chief executive Rashmi Sinhahmi tells me. It now gets 4.5 million unique visitors per [...] ...

Source: www.marketingpilgrim.com --- 6 hours ago
By Sean Maguire Joining an all-star cast of investors that includes Guy Kawasaki, founder of Alltop and Dallas, TX billionaire Mark Cuban, founder of Broadcast.com; SlideShare, Inc., the world’s largest online slide sharing community announced it has secured $3 million in Series A funding, led by Venrock. The funding enables SlideShare to expand operations, fund continued product [...] ...

Source: blog.slideshare.net --- 5 days ago
First of all, a HUGE thanks to the SlideShare community for making this day happen. It would have been impossible without the millions of users who visit SlideShare every day. As a tribute, we have put together a small collage (below) of just SOME of our most active users… though I can think of thousands [...] ...

Source: www.thealarmclock.com --- 2 days ago
SlideShare has raised $3M in series A funding led by Venrock. SlideShare is a site and service for sharing presentations. The site claims to be one of the biggest ruby on rails sites in the world. It has offices in San Francisco and New Delhi. SlideShare had raised angel funding from the cool kids in the Valley: Hal Varian (chief economist at Google); Guy Kawasaki, founder (Garage Technology Ventures); Ross Mayfield (Socialtext); Dave McClure Marc Cuban (Dallas Mavs owner); Jonathan Abrams (Friendster) and Saul Klein (The Accelerator Group). We have heard people wonder outloud what gives with SlideShare? It couldn't be eaiser to port PowerPoint slides to the Net. True enough but its also very easy to run Flash movies on the Net but that hasn't stopped dozens of companies from getting crazy traffic. SlideShare has an advantage in that slides are low bandwidth and less expensive to host than video and we can see advertisers paying good money to appear next to business presentations. View - site... ...

Source: blog.slideshare.net --- 2 days ago
Just wanted to let our users know that SlideShare is now also available at www.SlideShare.com. Till now we have been on the .net URL. A full scale migration to .com will happen subsequently, but for the time being you can just type SlideShare.com in your browser and press enter! We promise… you will [...] ...

Source: www.alootechie.net --- 3 days ago
SlideShare.net , which enables users to share PowerPoint presentations, has secured an investment of $3 million from US-based VC firm Venrock. With this investment, David Siminoff, managing partner at Venrock has joined SlideShare’s board of directors which currently includes Guy Kawasaki. ...

Source: www.redherring.com --- 5 days ago
Social network of PowerPoints closes on A round led by Venrock. ...

Source: ross.typepad.com --- 5 days ago
SlideShare, to which I am a big fan and advisor, just closed $3M with Venrock. Here's an announcement: | View | Upload your own 1,000-squared words. ...

Source: www.techconfidential.com --- 5 days ago
Presentation-sharing site SlideShare Inc. landed blue-chip venture backer Venrock in a modest $3 million round that allows the company to continue developing its technology and marketing of its social media platform. One-year-old SlideShare already boasts investors and advisors including Google Inc. [ GOOG ] chief economist Hal Varian, former Apple Inc. [ AAPL ] chief evangelist Guy Kawasaki, celebrity rich guy Marc Cuban and other influential Internet entrepreneurs. Bringing in Venrock, the legacy Rockefeller family venture fund as its first institutional investor, further strengthens the San Francisco company's pedigree.   SlideShare founder Rashmi Sinha will put the new money to use in additional product development and marketing to promote sharing of PowerPoint type presentations as the next step in viral communication of non-textual information. The company's technology allows a rapidly growing user base users to easily upload slideshows for free, and tag, download, or embed presentations into their own content. -- Clifford Carlsen See May 8 press release from SlideShare Inc. See SlideShare's blog For more see  TechCrunch , Mashable , and ContentSutra ...

Source: www.boxxet.com --- 8 days ago
Written by Pek I was at South By SouthWest (SXSW) last month in Austin. It was originally just a music festival, but later added film and interactive media. One of the sessions I attended was AJAX & Flash Mistakes at SlideShare. | View | Upload your own I really like SlideShare.net. For those of you not in th... Original story at PekPongpaet (Feedburner) . View our complete collection of news and blogs, plus related videos, photos and more at Boxxet for South by Southwest . ...

Source: jobs.alootechie.net --- 9 days ago
SlideShare (http://www.SlideShare.net) is the world’s largest community for sharing presentations on the web. We are a global scale website having offices in San Francisco & New Delhi. Want to join the team that is building SlideShare? We are recruiting software developers to join our team at Delhi. Working at SlideShare can be a hugely rewarding experience. [...] ...