Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2020

All-you-can-eat content model. By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription. Network model.

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JULY 1, 2014

Editor''s note: we''re dual running this content across our Southern California and Pacific Northwest Site, since Vadio is split between the two regions). We tried to figure out why people would go to an audio platform, which might be a iHeartradio, Pandora, or Spotify, and why people would go to platforms like YouTube for music.

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MARCH 1, 2013

One of those is Hollywood-based FilmBreak (www.filmbreak.com), which is applying the world of social networking, media, and the Internet to help film-makers gain access to the analytics and insights they need to better market their films. We're not necessarily the platform to help up-and-comers or amateurs to be successful.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

TVSync’s parent company Voible , has provided fingerprint protection technology to most major movie studios and TV networks since 2005. Their VDNA technology helps protect and manage content rights for works that may be pirated and uploaded illegally by automatically identifying that content, tracking it and taking it down.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2015

All-you-can-eat content model. By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription. Network model. This one is an extension of the insurance model into new domains.

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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. Or maybe you’re developing second screen viewing applications like GetGlue or building a YouTube studio to deliver low-cost content. Yet I’d argue that each has achieved basecamp.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

I believe that Twiistup is now a platform from which to grow and highlight what is uniquely LA. We are a city unique in merging the world’s best content with digital media and technology expertise. He talked about artists needing to retain rights for their website and digital content like ringtones.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

At G4, Scot served as VP of Program Editorial and Internet, and developed, Produced, and Hosted G4TV.COM, the network’s interactive talk show. Before G4, Scot founded All Games Network (AGN). He joined SGN from Fox where he was Vice President of Business Development and worked on the acquisition of MySpace and the launch of Hulu.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

This runs on a number of platforms? Actually, from that, I just got lots of analogies with publishing geographic specific content. I kind of thought there was a similar opportunity you see in the video space with YouTube, Hulu, thePlatform all going after. How did the incubation part come about?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2016

All-you-can-eat content model. By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription. Network model. This one is an extension of the insurance model into new domains.

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MARCH 17, 2010

It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. In content creation we definitely have assets other markets don’t have. As a result many funds are OK with big bets.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). Traditional media companies published their stories on the web.

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DECEMBER 1, 2008

He's an entrepreneur and operating executive, and has made investments in companies like Univision--the largest television network in the U.S.--where What kinds of companies are you looking to invest in, when you say digital media--content, technology, or both? where he is Chairman. What's your ideal investment opportunity?

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DECEMBER 1, 2008

He's an entrepreneur and operating executive, and has made investments in companies like Univision--the largest television network in the U.S.--where What kinds of companies are you looking to invest in, when you say digital media--content, technology, or both? where he is Chairman. What's your ideal investment opportunity?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

We have a very significant, deep network, and relationships from the best of the best, across multiple disciplines. What I'm building here, is a very different vision, which is broader, brings together a diverse set of skills, and a set of people with talent and with deep networks. It's a full range of activities.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Enter Vidzey , the in-video shopping platform that seamlessly combines media, entertainment and e-commerce. ” Article 1 discussed the digital revolution and how companies like Netflix and Hulu were taking over. Maybe you work for a network or TV production. ” THE SALES PLATFORM. And it’s available today.

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JUNE 6, 2012

At the simplest level you can think about markets in terms of the number of times media is consumed and/or purchased by people plotted against the total number of content of that media type that is available. In the “head end” market you can make a lot of money if you’re a content producer. Sadly, no Kindle edition).

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

It should be the next generation content/ entertainment portal that leverages millions of user profiles to more accurately provide data to advertisers on what is appealing to specific demographics. Work with the studios to have premium Hulu-ish content prominently branded and for sale. MySpace = Yahoo2.0: Fuel Micro Jobs.

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MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We serve up four to five percent of the global Internet on our network. Jame Segil: Why does the world need another CDN? There's complexity in being a CDN.

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JANUARY 5, 2016

Multi-Channel-Network. 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. We had a studio and invested in content creation. YouTube AND other platforms.

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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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FEBRUARY 13, 2011

They had the foresight to understand the trend of content moving online. It had the audience, the people, the network, everything! Tige and I discuss an excellent blog post written by the CEO of Hulu (Jason Kilar) on the future of advertising. Monetizing content is going to be a moving target. Netflix is a great example.

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JANUARY 13, 2016

Mitu Network is the largest digital media company for Latinos in the US and also targeting Mexico and South America. In long-form online video, companies were also broad in nature: Hulu, Netflix, Amazon and Apple TV. Exclusivity is expensive and acquiring content or producing from your own studios isn’t a sure thing.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

So without my weighing into the pro’s / con’s of this I can say that I believe it will capture a large segment of the market but leave room for “open platforms&# to play a big role. Thus you see television manufacturers rushing to create content ecosystems, app platforms, TV OS’s and Internet offerings.

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