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Natalie Nixon in Forbes: Your invisible work is key to your most productive self

Natalie Nixon is a CAL Entertainment Speaker. This article originally appeared in Forbes. I used to think that I was procrastinating when I stepped away from the desk, took walks, let ideas marinate for days on end, and then sat down to push out a project or make a writing deadline. Sometimes, I was procrastinating. But more […]

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Nonny de la Pena Wins 2022 Peabody Award!

Nonny de la Peña is Exclusively Represented by CAL Entertainment Nonny de la Peña has been at the forefront of emerging media throughout her career, earning accolades like “Godmother of VR.” Her insatiable curiosity and keen desire to provide innovative experiences to audiences in search of truth brought new techniques and technology to storytelling that

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Iconic Drummer Kenny Aronoff To DJ On Sirius XM Rolling Stones Radio Deep Tracks Channel 27 On September 2, 2021 at 11 AM ET Honoring Charlie Watts and the Rolling Stones – Ballyhoo Magazine

By Ballyhoo Magazine Kenny Aronoff is a CAL Entertainment Exclusive Speaker Iconic drummer Kenny Aronoff will be a DJ on Sirius XM Rolling Stones Radio Deep Tracks Channel 27 on Thursday, September 2, 2021 at 11 AM ET honoring Charlie Watts and the Rolling Stones. The show will air throughout the weekend (all times ET):

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A Former ‘Apprentice’ Finalist, James Sun, Launches a Global K-Beauty Platform

Let’s just get this out of the way first: In 2007, James Sun was a contestant on the seventh season of The Apprentice. When he auditioned, he asked the producers why there had never been an Asian male on the show before. He says they essentially told him, “No offense, but Asian males don’t make for good television.”

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Forecasting the internet’s impact on business is proving hard

By CAL Entertainment Featured Speaker Dr. David Bell PROGNOSTICATORS have a bad record when it comes to new technologies. Safety razors were supposed to produce a clean-shaven future. Cars were expected to take off and fly. Automation was meant to deliver a life of leisure. Yet beards flourish, cars remain earthbound and work yaps at

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The Untold Story of Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell’s Visionary 1980s Tech Incubator

In the annals of Silicon Valley history, Nolan Bushnell’s name conjures up both brilliant success and spectacular failure. His two landmark achievements were founding Atari in 1972–laying the groundwork for the entire video game industry–and starting Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza Time Theatre in 1977. But there’s another highlight of Bushnell’s bio that has long gone undocumented: pioneer of the high-tech incubator.

In 1981, Bushnell created Catalyst Technologies, a venture-capital partnership designed to bring the future to life by turning his ideas into companies. In the era of the TRS-80, Betamax, and CB radio, startups funded by Catalyst pursued an array of visionary concepts–from interactive TV to online shopping to door-to-door navigation–that created entire industries decades later. “I read science fiction, and I wanted to live there,” Bushnell explains.

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Two Bit Circus raises $15 million to build next-generation micro-amusement parks

Experimental entertainment company Two Bit Circus has raised $15 million in a funding round led by Jazz Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors, including Foundry Group, Techstars Ventures, Intel Capital, and a handful of new investors. Founded out of Los Angeles in 2012, Two Bit Circus uses technology to create immersive and interactive spectacles through events. Among its

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Mario Cuomo – One of the Greatest Orators in American History

“Words That Shook The World”: The Mario Cuomo Chapter In 2001, I had the privilege of spending an hour with Governor Mario Cuomo in his office in New York to speak with him about his amazing July 16, 1984 Keynote Address to the Democratic National Convention. I had chosen this speech as one of the

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