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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Do you have legal (Founder Agreement, IP, etc.) How will you be taking this to market? What special data, content, APIs, etc., Often this ties to marketing support. How do we prioritize internationalization versus getting something to market? How often is message content updated? Tell me about the business.

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StartupRoar - Great Content for Startups

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This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others. One thing to make clear, StartupRoar is a jump off point.

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FastSoft Names New Marketing VP

socalTECH

Pasadena-based FastSoft , the developer of content acceleration software and appliances, said today that it has named Jerry Hall as Vice President of Marketing at the firm. Hall was most recently a consultant at Forge Strategic Marketing, and also has served at AirHop Communications, ProxiNet, NetBoost, and LanTronix.

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Brainbase Gets $3M For IP Licensing

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Los Angeles-based Brainbase , a developer of intellectual property licensing software, has raised $3M in a seed funding round, the company said today. The round was led by Struck Capital, and also included Tectonic Capital, Bonfire Ventures, Sterling Road, and Watertower Ventures.

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More investors are betting on virtual influencers like Lil Miquela

TechCrunch LA

“The way I look at it… a lot of it is going to be like any kind of content studio,” says Peter Rojas, a partner at the New York investment firm Betaworks Ventures. “We’re looking more broadly at the issues around manipulated or faked content and how do you address that,” says Rojas.

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How Jukin Media Is Turning Viral Video Into A Real Business

socalTECH

We then acquire those videos directly from content owners. We''re taking that content, and publishing it on our licensing platform, which is much like a Getty Images for video. We find the content they want, and we user our technology and people to service the show. Lee Essner: That''s one of the competitive edges we have.

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PortalOne raises $60M as it levels up to launch its hybrid, immersive gaming platform later this year

TechCrunch LA

It included games icon Atari, which is working with PortalOne to include some of its brands and IP in that Arcade launch. “One of the big things we solved early on was how to scale this,” Bard said, “being able to produce the amount of content we can in a modular and efficient platform.

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