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SUMMARY:Bankrupt Your Startup in Five Easy Steps
DESCRIPTION:The odds are your startup will fail. Why fight it. Learn to implode your company with style. This session will review some of the many challenges facing new startups and look at the reasons why the vast majority of big ideas never make it out of the garage. The panelists will address the five things that sink most startups and show you how to do it bigger and better than your competition\, which is...
CATEGORIES:PANEL
LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room 19AB\, Austin\, TX
URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060549
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SUMMARY:A Better Gun to Shoot Your Eye Out With
DESCRIPTION:Game development is really hard. Lots of moving parts\, ever evolving state of the art and the great unknown of what exactly makes up "fun" conspire to kill most projects before they see the light of publication. Best stick to the tried and true technologies and techniques\, right? No! There are lots of great ideas that have emerged in the past 20 years but few have been applied to game development....
CATEGORIES:PANEL
LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room 8\, Austin\, TX
URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060294
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SUMMARY:Core Conversation: A Developer's Cookbook to Leveraging Virtualization
DESCRIPTION:Virtualization is a trend that's reforming the landscape of hosting and ISP's but developers may not be aware of the benefits for running desktop virtualized environments for testing and development. The snapshot capabilities afforded by virtualization is a deadly arrow that should be in the quiver of every developer nowadays. This panel explores the basic to intermediate level of usage.
CATEGORIES:PANEL
LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room Ballroom E\, Austin\, TX
URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060296
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SUMMARY:Scope Creep and Other Villains
DESCRIPTION:Are you a web design superhero? Then you'd better know your villains -- Scope Creep\, Needy Client\, The Write-Off\, and the rest of the sinister crew -- and the secrets of how to defeat them! This session will go in-depth on the most significant business and creative issues facing web designers today\, and will provide specific\, hands-on procedures for minimizing\, overcoming\, or eliminating them alto...
CATEGORIES:PANEL
LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room 6\, Austin\, TX
URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060467
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