Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2011

Netflix, Hulu, and even YouTube and other content streaming sites have all but obliterated the independent DVD rental business of yesterday. has provided a platform since 2005 for indie producers, distributors and advertisers to provide viewers with this kind of content. The folks over at Blip.tv It’s got a fresh clean look.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

I kind of thought there was a similar opportunity you see in the video space with YouTube, Hulu, thePlatform all going after. Actually, from that, I just got lots of analogies with publishing geographic specific content.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Or maybe you’re trying to dramatically change the way TV is consumed, like Boxee or TV advertising works on the Internet, like Hulu. It’s developing a differentiated product in a market where you can demonstrate value to your customers – whether they’re paying or not.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

We're also looking, at the same time, at infrastructure--infrastructure software, which advertising agencies or marketers would use. There's lots of examples--iTunes, which is now a dominant player, opportunities like Hulu, which didn't exist until recently. What's your prior experience and how'd you get into this?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

We're also looking, at the same time, at infrastructure--infrastructure software, which advertising agencies or marketers would use. There's lots of examples--iTunes, which is now a dominant player, opportunities like Hulu, which didn't exist until recently. What's your prior experience and how'd you get into this?

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Capital Southern California Media Venture Capital 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

All you have to do is want something like Hulu on your Facebook so you can watch “Lie to Me” and a slurry of other amazing shows and hit movies. It’s far too easy to find Spotify , Hulu , Whatever News Site, and other “fun” applications that exist in the Facebook ecosystem. The logic trail seems pretty straight forward to me.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Surprisingly, Hollywood hasnt played a major role in the formation of new companies, which have tended to be in less glamorous though more lucrative areas like lead-generation and service (with obvious exceptions like JibJab and Hulu, a joint venture of Fox and NBC). startup scene so hot. What makes L.A. a great place for startups?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

This potential merger is another example of media companies getting together in what seems like a monopolistic way that still might find itself as prey for market innovation of the future; like Hulu for example. Tige and I discuss an excellent blog post written by the CEO of Hulu (Jason Kilar) on the future of advertising.

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Venture Capital Examples Startup Invest 277

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

The reason is that most people equate MCN with “YouTube aggregators” meaning people who sign up video creators, roll them up into a single content management system and then collect advertising revenue from YouTube. YouTube aggregation isn’t a business. You would never only sell in Walmart. The audiences are getting longer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2010

Their revenue from advertising may approach one billion dollars this year, with most consumed by bandwidth and associated costs, YouTube isn’t even profitable yet. They are most optimistic about video advertising, rather than vlogging or other applications, since video ads have been the norm for a long time.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Creativity in our business lives – The average tech startup these days spends time talking with colleagues & investors about a multitude of things: customer acquisition, viral adoption, raising capital, hiring / firing employees, product features, technology trends, marketing / branding, and on and on. So I thought I would.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

In long-form online video, companies were also broad in nature: Hulu, Netflix, Amazon and Apple TV. It turns out that once you attract an audience to your channel and your brand becomes known for producing a genre of content you have an unfair advantage in acquiring customers for other shows who naturally migrate from one show to the next.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

So many people are stuck in the mindset that YouTube is UGC (as defined as people uploading silly videos or watching Coke & Mentos explode) and that brands don’t want to advertise on UGC. Trying searching for something on Hulu. Try it first for content that is on Hulu and then for content that is not. By a long shot.

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