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The Breakthrough Presentation that Stole the Upfront Summit

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He’s here on stage with Snoop Dogg and they had just dialed in Shaq to record a live video for his platform. As you can imagine, when you introduce tech professionals or VCs to a grammy-award winning rap artist they start with pre-conceived ideas but of course that “pattern matching” is what leads our industry to underestimate people.

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Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood, LA Tech Summit, and Idea to Screen | Why You Need to Attend Any or All

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The theme for Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood is startups and Hollywood, featuring leaders from movie studios, music labels, agencies, and startups in entertainment – how Hollywood studios are investing and working with startups, and how Silicon Beach startups are making entertainment businesses.

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

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Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”. We are in phase three of the influencer economy.

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Please Help Me Congratulate Jordan Hudson as @UpfrontVC’s Newest Investment Principal

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Deal screening. Jordan joined us a couple of years ago from Fox Filmed Entertainment where he worked in corporate strategy and he previously had worked for GCA Savvian in investment banking. And we’ve begun relaunching our “platform services” for entrepreneurs. Portfolio company support & analysis.

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Here Is What You Missed At VidCon 2013

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Entertainment." To this end, he and his brother Hank recently launched Subbable , a platform by which content creators can directly marshal their fan''s financial support. As I write this article, Crash Course stands at 83% of its pledge goal, with nearly 10,800 fans funding the show''s production costs for its upcoming season.

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The Most Interesting Online Video Trend

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Of course you know Gangnam Style , which is now the most viewed video in history at 1.3 I called this trend “ Torso TV ” because the “head” of consumption (largest number of views) was dominated by platforms that had massive distribution (think TV stations, radio or retail outlets that sell CDs and DVDs.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010. OTHER DEALS: 1.