Conference Hopping Today: TechCrunch's Real-Time Stream & Guy Kawasaki's Revenue Bootcamp

I'm conference hopping today before I take off for Chicago today to meet Christine and our girls. I'm at Guy Kawasaki's Revenue Bootcamp this morning and headed to TechCrunch's Real-Time Stream event later today.

Slice of Revenue Bootcamp
Keynote
Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief, Wired magazine
Author of Free: The Future of a Radical Price
11:00am - 12:00pm

Is the Advertising Model Dead?
1:30pm - 2:30pm
This panel answers questions like: Can you build a real business around advertising revenues? What does it take to optimize ad revenue? Are new ad techniques energizing?

Samir Arora - Chairman and CEO, Glam Media
Neil Chase - Vice President for Author Services, Federated Media
Xavier Zang - Publisher Partner Management, Microsoft
Tim Kendall - Director of Monetization, Facebook
David Kopp - Senior Director, N. American Ads, Yahoo!
Bill Reichert - Moderator. Garage Technology Ventures

Slice of Real-Time Search
9:00 - 9:45 am
The Real Time Opportunity
Q&A with leading angel investors John Borthwick and Ron Conway, moderated by Michael Arrington and Steve Gillmor.

9:45 - 10:30 am
The Real Time Moment

* Jack Dorsey, Twitter
* Chris Cox, Facebook
* Bret Taylor, Friendfeed
* Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch (moderator)

Startup Fundraising 101

My article at VentureBeat's Entrepreneur Corner is up:

"Startup Fundraising 101"

The slides in the article and below are actually from an older version, but the newest one was on my laptop that got stolen this past weekend. Not sure if I'm up for recreating this document since I can't remember all the minor tweaks (e.g. slide 12 mentioning Reed Hastings and Judy Estrin instead of Marc Andreessen) I did :(

Startup Fundraising 101

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Makaechi “because of tomorrow”

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"Lines That Divide" Documentary Preview Clips

Some great clips from the "Lines That Divide" documentary.

Chuck Colson, Founder of Prison Fellowship:
"Lines that Divide is a much needed tool for equipping concerned citizens with a comprehensive view of the science and ethics shaping the stem-cell debate today. The film spotlights the breakthroughs being made by adult stem-cell therapy — breakthroughs which are not receiving equal funding or equal media coverage. All of us who believe in supporting life should see this film and recommend it to others."

Leading experts, William Hurlbut (Stanford University), Philip Schwartz, Wesley J. Smith, and Samuel Wood on the use of human embryos for research.


Christopher Reeve on Charlie Rose discussing human cloning. William Hurlbut on arguments made from suffering and the "greatest good for the greatest number".