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Meet the 2017 Startups from the Disney Accelerator

Tech.Co

What you might not realize is that the adorable droid was the brain child of Sphero, a robotics and digital technology company and an alumni to the Disney Accelerator program. Courtesy of Sphero & Disney. Meet the 11 startups for 2017: Ambidio.

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How I Got the Monkey Off My Back – Today Was a Good Day

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Working with early-stage teams : coaching, mentoring, setting strategy, rolling up sleeves: 9/10. Disney Acquires Maker Studios f0r $500 million and with earn-out potentially up to $950 million. Sourcing high-quality leads : 9/10. AOL Acquires Gravity for $90 million. Apple – Burstly / TestFlight. And now this just in … 3.

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Substance abuse affects about 15% of American employees, Path wants to ensure they get help

TechCrunch LA

We bring a doctor, a therapy and a coach,” says Bruno of the new service he’s launching. As the founder of HomeTeam, which provided in-home senior care and a software toolkit to manage that care, Bruno already has an understanding of the healthcare marketplace. ” The Los Angeles-based company has raised $5.35

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Five Startup Tips From Bill Gates

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Other installments include: Jeff Bezos , Steve Jobs , Mark Cuban , Richard Branson , Walt Disney , Mark Zuckerberg , Michael Dell and Larry Ellison. This frugality was evidenced by the fact that everyone at Microsoft, even Gates, flew coach until well into the late 1990s. Note: This is an installment in the Iconic Advice series.

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Which Circle Do You Want To Be In…The Blue One (NHL) or the Red One (TED)?

Eric Greenspan

They are coaching our kids in their spare time, or full time, and IMHO, they are standing in the blue circle, maybe a slightly different one, but it’s still in the middle of what matters. He was on his way to the Coachella Festival, after recording with a Disney talent. I stopped to take the call.

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Some Reflections on VC Investment Decisions

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Twitter, LinkedIn, Salesforce not to mention Disney, Warner, GM, P&G. You have to figure out when to be the up-beat coach, “It will all get better, stay confident, keep the course” or the honest voice in one’s ear, “Listen mate, you’ve been protecting your head of product for far too long.

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Some Seriously Great News. No, Seriously …

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link] Their vision was “if Disney were going to build a media company today they wouldn’t start by creating films, they would build compelling characters in a mobile game and then create media products and physical goods in support of the game. I imagined what it would feel like if we worked in this location. It felt pretty, pretty good.

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