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Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Impact entertainment “accelerator” inks deal with Netflix

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Under the agreement, Impact will identify and develop film ideas in four specific genres over the next year that they will then bring to Netflix to produce and distribute, through a global submission process. ” Writers need to submit an idea and a writing sample from today through July 6. .

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This 28 Year Old Woman Co-Founded One Of The Most Successful YouTube Networks

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In 2007, Sarah joined Current TV. in 2007 (and) 2008 (and I realized) there is all this online video being consumed and it''s not being consumed on Current. During her tenure, "A director came into our offices and pitched us a web-series idea. these guys, even in 2007, had tens of millions of views. That video is.

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LegalZoom Founder Brian Liu Talks About His New Legal Startup, BizCounsel

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I was at LegalZoom until last year, and I was the CEO of the company for its first seven years, from 2000 to 2007. The idea that everyone is following, is trying to get a few large clients. Here's something else that might be interesting to people here, is everyone know there are a lot of technology incubators out there.

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Interesting Model for University President

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Interesting Model for University President Saw a post by Paul Kedrosky pointing us to Graeme Thickins on How Stanford Does It. Its interesting to think about how universities might want to have their staff better aligned with moving ideas from the lab to start-ups.

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Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles?

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? If anyone has ideas on how to reach into to find candidates or other ways to find good people, I would love to hear it. Im part of a CTO group that meets once a month to discuss various topics.

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Challenge of Predicting Winners

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). But even if you came to me with that idea, Im not sure I would have bought it. Why did YouTube win? Why did MySpace win?

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Interview with Cody Simms, Techstars LA

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We started in Boulder, Colorado, all the way back in 2007, with just ten companies. Finally, the last thing, is what is the idea and product you are trying to build. We select ten per class, and help those startups connect with mentors and other people in that local environment who can be helpful to the business.

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