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 own event on slideshare.
- Join groups to connect with SlideShare members who share your interests
- Download the original file
The SlideShare team is based in San Francisco, (California, USA) & New Delhi (India). We are passionate about creating compelling web experiences and think that small teams with fire in their eyes can do big things.
SlideShare Inc.
739 Bryant Street,
San Francisco, CA 94107,
Phone: 415 777 5770
Fax: 415 789 4358
New Delhi Office
221, First Floor, Okhla Phase III,
New Delhi-110020
Telephone: 011-40548185
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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
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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 .
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Amit Ranjan (Amit's Slidespace)
Amit heads the team that is building SlideShare. He has a previous background in product marketing, sales & consumer research. He last worked with PepsiCo; prior to that he worked for 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 an instigator on the Indian startup circuit. And he authors Webyantra, one of India's most widely
read Web 2.0 blog. You can reach him at .
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SlideShare has secured venture capital funding from Venrock, one of the leading venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. Venrock was founded in 1969 as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller Family and has about $2.1 billion under management. David Siminoff, general partner at Venrock has joined SlideShare's board of directors.
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David Siminoff
David Siminoff began his career in the media business prior to his entrepreneurial pursuits in technology. Before spending a decade at Capital Research, making early investments in Yahoo!, AOL, Amazon and eBay, Siminoff founded and later sold EastNet, a syndicate barter company, enabling television stations in Eastern Europe to trade American TV programs for advertising time from major brands. He also co-founded 4INFO and most recently, he served as chairman, president and CEO of Spark Networks.
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Dev Khare
Dev Khare focuses on investments in digital media, mobile, digital car and software. Prior to Venrock, Dev co-founded in 1999 and lead product management for Covigo, a mobile software platform company. Covigo was acquired by Symbol Technologies (now part of Motorola) in 2003. Dev has also worked in product management at CrossWorlds Software and Aditi Technologies as well as in private equity and corporate finance at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Jefferies & Company. Dev's educational background includes an MBA from Harvard Business School, a BS in Economics from Wharton and a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He blogs at www.nextwala.com.
Angel Investors
in SlideShare include Ariel Poler, Dave McClure, Jonathan Abrams, Hal Varian, Yee Lee, Saul Klein and Mark Cuban.![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090116160121im_/http://public.slideshare.net/images/guy.gif)
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.
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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.
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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.
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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 Canopy Financial.
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.