24. How to Survive as a Computer Graphics Entrepreneur Half Day / Beginning Helpful approaches to finding the answer to a basic question: "Can I survive as a computer graphics entrepreneur?" Course presenters provide practical knowledge and experience, business advice, and an audience-participation session. Who Should Attend Individuals in the computer graphics field who intend to start or wish to investigate the possibility of launching their own computer-graphics-oriented business. Organizer Mark Leon Forward Edge Technologies Lecturers David Hamby Lightspan Partnership Nancy Collier Barking Dog Software Schedule 1:30 pm: General principles of computer graphics entrepreneurship - Leon Advice that will help you survive, and pitfalls that will kill you. Case Study Examples, or "How I make a living doing this particular thing": 2:20 pm: Freelance Animator - Hamby (generally addressing those entrepreneurial computer art majors) 3:00 pm: Break 3:15 pm: Computer Graphics Software Developer - Collier (generally addressing those entrepreneurial computer science majors) 4:05 pm: Open Discussion, Questions and Answers by the Panel of Entrpreneurs

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