socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Los Angeles-based mobile games developer Scopely announced this morning that it has raised a huge, $340M Series E funding round. Scopely said the new funding will go towards supporting its M&A strategy as well as expansion into new product categories. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2021

At the right time, they all intend to make a graceful exit, and leave while still perceived to be on top of their game. Warren Buffett and Rupert Murdoch clearly fall into this category. Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey are business examples in this category. Which category will you fall into? Aging despots. Helping others?

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

“We look at three pillars of our types of apps… casual games, mobile games, and personal tools,” said Maple Media chief executive, Michael Ritter. . “It’s an app that’s been in the market for eight years — and it’s feature complete, which is what you would expect in the podcast category.”

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2013

In the big-fundings-we-recently-missed category, Los Angeles-based Topline Game Labs recently announced that it has raised $25M in a funding round for its fantasy sports and social gaming marketplace. Topline Game Labs is led by David Geller, the prior Global Head of Fantasy Sports at Yahoo! READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

According to Crave, it has split the site into five categories, Entertainment, Gaming, Sports, Music, and Life & Style. The changes look to also have been structured to help the company integrate brand messaging into its site--the company said the new categories also help it integrate brand messages into the online lifestyle site.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Los Angeles-based PriceGrabber , the online shopping comparisons website, reported Monday that the areas with the biggest increase in traffic Sunday from online shoppers were video games and sporting goods. The company said it is expecting an increase in traffic of 15 percent today, Cyber Monday.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

We all hear about the big winners, such as the game Clash of Clans , which still pulls in over a million dollars a day, and the smartphone version of Skype , which is making money through credits as an extension of the website version. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 20 million registered developers in 2018.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2012

Agoura Hills-based videogame developer THQ said Wednesday that it is exiting the kids' games business, and will instead focus on its "core" video game franchises. THQ explained that it will focus its resources on games for existing consoles and "new and emerging" platforms. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

This year’s finalists in the Innovation at the Intersection category show the value of bringing different disciplines—engineering and biology, IT and medicine—together. The winners of this and the other categories of the Xconomy Awards will be announced at the Awards Gala in Boston on September 26.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Unlike Home Depot, The Shed touts its presence in eight categories. “I joined with Karen because I saw that this would be a game changer in the rental space,” said Perrone. Stanley Black & Decker is a marquee early partner and the company’s executives said that others have come on board.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

I think the direction of the company is spot on and follows very similar trends that we’ve tracked in online games more broadly and also follows the trend of real-money online gaming apps that are “games of skill” not “games of chance.” But it still takes time.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2010

Los Angeles-based video game rental service GameFly is seeing more competition from video rental firm Blockbuster this week, after its competitor announced that it is expanding its online movie rental service to include video games. Tags: gamefly merger acquisition videogame content blockbuster rental video game. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

My challenge has always been how to get people from the second category into the first. I always thought that I must be lucky to have found so much excitement and satisfaction from my work, so I never had any really good answers to those of you who second category who wanted to move to the first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2022

You don't have to do it perfectly to stay ahead of the game. So your first test here is to see if you can decide which category of decision maker you best fit. These points may sound obvious, but the process is certainly contrary to the popular “shoot from the hip” approach that is practiced by some entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2022

You are selling several successful computer video games, but notice more and more new ones popping up on smartphones. For example, quarterly sales on one of your most important products suddenly decreases, or your inventory across a whole category has surged. The entry of new competitors and new suppliers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Look inside and outside your industry for role models, and apply some innovative thinking to put you ahead of the game tomorrow, rather than yesterday. If you surveyed your customers today, what percent of your customers would put you in the winning category? Find the best of the best models, and aim even higher. Marty Zwilling

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2023

Entrepreneurs in this category are real risk takers, such as Elon Musk. Those who proactively seek knowledge and learn fast build knowledge pools and tap into the wisdom of mentors and industry leaders to raise their game. People who shape the future, like Steve Jobs, did this. Push your mindset to tackle the seemingly insurmountable.

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socalTECH

JULY 24, 2018

The categories that are at the center of that fight are transportation electrification, the nexus of energy and digital tools for a sustainable city, including blockchain and fintech solutions, Internet-of-Things, etc. How did the competition come about? This is one opportunity to do that. Bird is just one recent example.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 23, 2021

The sheer number of entrants in the category — and the capital they’ve raised — points to the opportunity for several winners if companies can walk the tightrope balancing cost at scale and quality replacements for free range food.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

In 1908, American baseball pitcher Addie Joss threw 74pitches and completed the most efficient perfect game ever recorded (i.e., To put this accomplishment into perspective, there have only been 23perfect games recorded in major league baseball during the past 133 years, during which nearly 400,000 games have been played.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2014

Original online video content has exploded in terms of popularity and exposure, and in response, the Streamys have upped the ante and added several new award categories and you, the viewer get to nominate your favorite content creators in areas like gaming, sports, pranks, science and education, kids and family and more.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 19, 2010

Thursday, March 25, 2010 -- Console, Online, Mobile: The $60 Billion Gaming Industry in Flux. The game industry is a $60 Billion global business, where over 500f the revenue has historically come from three companies: Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. SD Venture Group. See [link] (more).

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

Wearables are in fact much more than that, and the category is rapidly expanding thanks to the likes of big Fortune 500 companies, as well as small time startups and crowdfunded projects on Indiegogo. REACH Connected Future: Gaming Recap. The Business of Gaming | REACH Games Event Recap. Date: Thursday, June 26, 2014.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I also often tell people the simple hack is to watch Brain Games. It starts with a category being done poorly, reimagining the experience, creating distinctive products and then constantly messaging this to the market. If you tried to shop Amazon for just one of these categories?—?where

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2021

They skip the blame and complain game, and make things happen despite major obstacles. Entrepreneurs with the mantra “if we build it, they will come,” and executives who don’t communicate their expectations, fall into this category. As a startup investor, I view any evidence of a victim mentality as the kiss of death.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2012

In terms of industries, Biotechnology led the investments with $207M invested in the category, followed by Industrial/Energy, with $155.27M, then Medical Devices, with $133.59M in funding. The category of perennial interest in Southern California, Media and Entertainment, only saw $55.3M

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. It will be tough for there to be many huge winners in this category.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The company said it has added a new search box for users logging into the site, which will allow them to search for perks, restaurants, cities, and other information on the site, and also added new ways to browse and search for perks by category. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Look inside and outside your industry for role models, and apply some innovative thinking to put you ahead of the game tomorrow, rather than yesterday. If you surveyed your customers today, what percent of your customers would put you in the winning category? Find the best of the best models, and aim even higher. Marty Zwilling.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 21, 2021

They want Netflix to address a list of demands in the categories of content investment, employee relations and safety, and harm reduction. million on the buzzy, nine-episode “Squid Game,” Netflix’s best-ever debut. million for the one-off special. Meanwhile, the company spent $3.9

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

It's an intensely competitive market in developing games for the iPhone and other mobile platforms, with thousands and thousands of titles competing for attention from users. William is in San Diego, and is a longtime gaming vet, having been at Activision in the days of The Manhole and Myst. My first game was published in 1980.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2008

The site found that the top categories for shopping were women's boots; watches; Blu-ray/HD-DVD players; women's sleep and lounge wear; and games and puzzles. Among the top ten categories of interest, five of the most popular categories were related to women's clothing or shoes.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

We think there is a new category of the e-commerce and shopping sector, the entertainment sector. She has a mobile phone, likes playing social games online, games such as Farmville and the Sims. Dan Murillo: The trading feels very much like a game. It's loosely based on the Japanese concept of a "lucky bag sale".

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 5, 2018

“We understand that enterprises often struggle to achieve the business outcomes they expect from SaaS, and the renewal process for SaaS suppliers is often an ambiguous guessing game.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2012

Chill Front Page is a socially curated, front page of video, in around eight categories. The concept, pretty simply, is using all of our data from our walled experience, explicit posts from consumers, and serving up to people the most interesting videos across different categories, like sports and shopping. It's all very lightweight.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

A huge mistake I see is that VC tells an entrepreneur no based on a set of reason that this VC felt weren’t right with the business (market size, traction to date, too many competitors, no big exits in the category or whatever easy excuses VCs have developed to politely say no) and the entrepreneur lets this get inside his or her head.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2023

New drugs usually fall in this category, due to side-effect testing. Don’t expect investors to line up for your new online gaming site, adult entertainment or quick sources of cash. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Fisker, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. Marginal legality or poor public image.

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