InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Other installments include: Jeff Bezos , Steve Jobs , Mark Cuban , Richard Branson , Walt Disney , Mark Zuckerberg , Michael Dell and Larry Ellison. Of course not. It's just life's way of saying, ‘Time to change course.’” If you are not intermittingly failing, you are not trying hard enough. Chicago, a glorified cooking show.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 8, 2011

The first one is Oswald The Lucky Rabbit, Walt Disney’s first hit character. After some initial success with Oswald, Universal Studios (who owned Oswald’s copyright) severed its relationship with Walt Disney, hired the majority of his creative team and began creating Oswald cartoons. Can you identify this image?

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APRIL 19, 2015

“Of course I work!” I imagine that for many – if you are fortunate enough to stay healthy – it’s the beginning of truly feeling comfortable in your aging skin and accepting the course of your life. These aren’t generally the thoughts of 20-year-olds. That is the age where you do more than think.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

There are some communities in which “anything goes” is the norm (think Reddit) and others where a zero tolerance approach is required (Disney). Of course not. My arguments aren’t from a prudish perspective – I’m an ardent believer in free speech – but from a practical one. Tred this line carefully.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

As you mention, this is the third (or fourth, if you could the former Walt Disney Accelerator) Techstars accelerator in LA � why the decision to run another one here? There are so many incredible ups and downs in the course of building your own company from the ground up. Startups are hard. We've seen that time and time again.

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DECEMBER 14, 2014

And then of course our friends at TechStars launched an accelerator in collaboration with our friends at Disney so now there was six. There are many great companies that have been associated with Launchpad over the years and of course I’m proud of everybody we’ve had relationships with.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Of course, not all VCs are like that, and I've started some good relationships with them, but others are complete a**holes. My CIO had been ex-CIO at Herbalife, and was an EVP of Software for Disney. We hired the ex-CTO of Sears, and other senior executives out of Disney in software.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2009

What do Warren Buffet, Martin Luther King, John Wayne, Walt Disney, Harry Truman and Wayne Gretzky all have in common? He is a member of the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Faculty where he teaches several entrepreneurial courses. All of these extremely successful individuals were paperboys*. from the Wharton School.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

This accelerated after I co-led the seed & A rounds at Maker Studios, which sold 3 years later for $1 billion to Disney. We thought we’d try to get some feedback from product-oriented user community at Product Hunt (and then we also announced on TechCrunch of course). My 1st on @ProductHunt [link] https://t.co/L1I6RUWYJu.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

Xconomy spoke with Jacks and CEO and longtime tech entrepreneur Bill Haney about the venture, a cancer immunotherapy startup that is relying on funding from family offices—among them the Disney family—rather than venture firms.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

Ynon had been the CEO of Maker Studios and I trust his opinion a great deal so of course I took the meeting. No, Seriously … Exactly six years ago today I received an email from my friend Ynon Kreiz introducing me to Andrew Stalbow and Petri Järvilehto. I imagined what it would feel like if we worked in this location.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

I was most recently in corporate development at Walt Disney Internet Group. Of course not. By helping them, I mean the TCA will help founders with introductions, networking, mentoring, and of course capital; with business development, hiring, and whatever a startup needs. Is every deal we see going to be the next Google?

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MARCH 23, 2015

Fred has of course been a public mentor to us all with his market-defining terminology that he popularized including “freemium” and “mobile first.” Being early got me my first $1 billion exit (Maker to Disney). Be generous with time with newer VCs / pay it forward.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

If Avesta sees someone drinking Coloft coffee (organic of course), he quickly asks if they’ve sold anything. The first talk kicked off with Rob Maigret (Founder of Digisynd , acquired by Disney) followed up by Dan Gould (Founder of Namesake , Chill.com , Ad.ly Throughout Coloft, there are pieces of art (and stickers) around this theme.

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APRIL 17, 2010

We had executives from the studios like Fox, Warner Bros and Disney. And of course we had, TheMan. We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, Commission Junction, MySpace, TicketMaster and many more. There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife. Now begins the 6-month journey.

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MAY 19, 2013

It is what he set out to build and he had huge initial success in landing big clients like Disney, Zynga, Gilt and TopSpin. Of course there are exceptions – the most obvious one being Sheryl Sandberg. I funded Jonathan’s first $500,000. Therein lies the dilemma. ” So Reid set out to hire a CEO.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

I has been asked to do the keynote speech at a dinner that night but of course hadn’t written a speech in advance. We have amazing large companies that are an important part of the future of the Internet such as Disney, Warner, Fox, Universal, etc. I couldn’t carry on a conversation.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

Something we didn’t know, mainstay education programs have < 1% course completion. We know language education is a huge market, with 1/7 of people around the world learning a new language. With Culture Alley, they’ve shown promising growth and completion rates in the double digits, and they’ve only touched on Spanish.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Last night I co-hosted a dinner at Soho House in Los Angeles with some of the most senior people in the media industry with executives from Disney, Fox, Warner, media agencies and many promising tech & media startup CEO’s. You want to get yourself to a position where you can do what you want to do&# (Chamillionaire).

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

This advantage is fueled largely by the owners of Hulu, which include Disney, NBC, Fox, and even Time Warner. The catch, of course, is that to access Amazon’s videos, you need to subscribe to Amazon Prime. Frankly, it’s best to take a look at the original shows from each service and see which you prefer to follow.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Of course, the evening wouldn’t have been complete without our fireside chat with Mike Jones , serial entrepreneur and former CEO of MySpace. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group. In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days.

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JANUARY 5, 2016

20 months ago we sold Maker Studios to Disney for $500 million in cash plus a large earn out. I figured I owed it to both Disney and to Maker not to state views that could be construed as their views during a period where I was still involved. When we were acquired by Disney we had a product & engineering team of 55 people.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Of course, the evening wouldn’t have been complete without our fireside chat with Mike Jones , serial entrepreneur and former CEO of MySpace. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group. In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Maker Studios, the largest producer of online short-form videos (content) recently sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion. Fred Wilson has done this for the NY startup scene but of course you also have mass media located there. It was always more likely that auto industry commerce prowess would come from LA or Detroit. Venture Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Of course it’s their right to do so and there is so much money involved you can hardly blame them. Disney has already shown it has innovation potential on its own in the tech meets media world and being too tied to Hulu will only continue to create inconsistencies.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Companies such as Visa, Microsoft, Disney and Proctor and Gamble relied on this infrastructure to facilitate millions of dollars in revenue on a daily basis – so, needless to say, it had to work 100% of the time. . So, we decided to move the company to Silicon Valley (with a little encouragement from Sequoia, of course).

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

We focused on Global 2000, blue-chip customers such as Microsoft, Visa, Disney and Proctor and Gamble. If so, buy them (at a reasonable price, of course). We had over 3,000 customers, delivered over 8 billion e-mails and online advertisements per month and reached over 65% of the Internet population through our technology (adMonitor).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

Maker was bought to Disney and FullScreen by The Chernin Group (both for hundreds of millions of dollars) and both continue to grow and create new strategies. And of course the 800 pound gorilla – YouTube – is also horizontal in nature. Nickelodeon and Disney in Kids. And of course these numbers are only increase.

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