Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Too many entrepreneurs I know start by highlighting their new technology , and assume that it will sell itself. Unfortunately, technology doesn’t create a vision, and usually frightens customers away, unless they understand the vision and value first. Every balanced leader does marketing early.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 13, 2015

When CNET released their list of the “ Best Wearables of 2014 ,” all nine of these gadgets are worn on the wrist, every single one of them, like that is the only part of our bodies available for wearable technology. But with a price tag of $1,500.00 (as of December 2014), I think I’ll hold off on this for now. 3-D gaming. 3-D gaming.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 29, 2013

USC’s Marshall School of Business will host the second annual Silicon Beach Awards (SBAs), a $50,000 venture competition focused on innovation in technology & entertainment. Silicon Beach @ USC will feature game-changers and thought leaders from Hollywood studios, technology startups, and academia. eventbrite.com/ 2.

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JULY 23, 2009

Los Angeles-based Mobile Messenger , a firm which provides technology for managing mobile media distribution and billing said this week that it has named Michael Iaccarino as CEO of the firm. Iaccarino was most recently at Epison, and also served at KPMG and Price Waterhouse. Current CEO and founder, Steve Taylor, becomes EVP Strategy.

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JUNE 20, 2014

For today''s Insights and Opinions section, we are featuring a post from Jonathan Handel , a Los Angeles entertainment/technology attorney, who imagines one day when driver''s licenses will be obsolete (thanks to Google and Uber).

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JUNE 5, 2013

They''re currently having to purchase dental care without any price transparency or negotiating power. We''re leveraging group buying to get pricing which is comparable to those negotiated by the large insurers. You can price a procedure, check on a dentist''s reputation, and book online. We felt that was not disruptive enough.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

As you know, today, video is one of the primary means of communications from a personal, corporate, and entertainment level. What we specialize in, is the way we deliver this content in a seamless way, in high quality, with the latest technology available. Those technologies allow us to scale and offer a superior product for customers.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

She is responsible for all aspects of business growth for the platform’s design and technology categories and has led many companies, including Misfit Wearables, Scanadu and Canonical, to secure funding on Indiegogo. Apps & Software Business Entertainment Entrepreneurship Events REACH GadgetReview Technology TechZulu Wearables'

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Berkonomics

MAY 30, 2019

We are constantly bombarded by ads in multiple types of media, to the extent that we most often tune them out unless particularly entertaining from the first moment (eight seconds.). Entering the “age of recommendation.”.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the online car pricing site run by Scott Painter, said today that it has named Stephen Hansen as the firm's new President and COO. Hansen was most recently CEO and Chairman of WePlay, and also has served at Avamar Technologies and was Chief Operating Officer of GeoCities. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. Check out the entertaining video here.) in August. Listeners can subscribe on iTunes or their favorite podcast player.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

USC’s Marshall School of Business and School of Cinematic Arts present Silicon Beach @USC : an event highlighting innovation, new ventures, partnerships and investment at the intersection of technology and digital content. Pricing is as follows: Current university Students: $20. Come join us for Silicon Beach @ USC!

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Kranz, who initially came on board as the company’s chief technology officer, took over the day-to-day operations of Canoo after Stefan Krause, Canoo’s co-founder and chief executive, stepped away from the company in August for personal reasons, as The Verge previously reported. .

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

That brings us to Greg Mertz, Lead Advisor for Technology Initiatives at Warner Bros. In his role at WBR, he helps to steer the leadership into promising technology investments and partnerships. Founding member of President Obama’s Entertainment Advisory Council. Records (WBR). Want to Demo Your Startup or Sponsor?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2013

“Innovation to me is a paradigm shift for providing people technology to help them live, work and play“ – Urvi Bhandari. But thanks to a few giant leaps of innovation and technology over the past few decades, the impossible is becoming ever more possible, and “impossible” itself is a word that has an increasingly limited shelf life.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In this age of constant market evolution and new technology, there is no such thing as a static business that is self-sustaining. Competitors tend to focus on price and other variations to existing offerings. Introduce disruptive technologies to this domain. He entertains no sense of a static business.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2011

Brandon tells us the story about how the loss of his aunt to breast cancer--his mother's participation in a charity walk to honor her--inspired him to take the technology from his firm, AudioLife (focused on music and entertainment marketing), and apply it to the nonprofit sector. What is GoodThreads all about? So, what is GoodThreads?

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Berkonomics

JUNE 30, 2012

We are constantly bombarded by ads in multiple types of media, to the extent that we most often tune them out unless particularly entertaining from the first moment. Dave’s book: Positioning.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Enter Vidzey , the in-video shopping platform that seamlessly combines media, entertainment and e-commerce. We discuss advertising, Vidzey’s story, technology, business, interns, and entertainment. Valuable personality traits in his previous life working in entertainment, no doubt. Is the technology even possible?

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

By observing innovations and existing market conditions, they anticipate emerging technological trends. Most substantial innovations require time for the underlying technology to be refined, the proper infrastructure to be developed and for potential users to recognize and accept the need for the new solution. Innovations Are Amoral.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

We sat down with Steve to chat about what the Alliance is working on, and why he decided to champion the growth of the technology industry here. We are devoted to the mission of supercharging Southern California's technology ecosystem, and help it emerge as a world class technology hub by 2025. It's a great place.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In my experience as a business consultant, I find than most people still believe that technology drives business disruption. I’m more convinced that technology merely enables disruption, and changing customer interests and needs really causes it. Today, customers want personalized products and services at reasonable prices.

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DECEMBER 18, 2019

Joel Milne: The way this works, is a consumer can go to our website, get an online estimate or quote on a job they want done, and we try to provide real price transparency upfront. I spent the last seven years running a company called ScoreBig, a LA-based tech startup in the live entertainment space. How does that work?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 8, 2014

But the technology to support this exploding industry has taken baby steps to better production, and the learning curve for professional live productions is steeper than most YouTubers can handle. TriCaster Mini is competitively priced at $5,995 base model, or with enhanced recording and remote-broadcast friendly embedded monitor for $7,995.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Without further adieu, I present to you the winners of the 1st annual REACH NeXT conference: Entertainment: Storygami. Rufus Labs is a wearable technology startup in Los Angeles with a heavy focus on building devices for the industrial sector (EMS, police, campus/event security, warehouse, etc). Health & Wellness: Green Way Labs.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

We’ve simplified our pricing, and API partners are now utilizing our technology in unique ways to fulfill a growing demand for entertainment imagery.”. “We’re adding new celebrity pictures at a rate of approximately 40,000 images per day, with around 2 million photos still to be added.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

DreamHost has a successful track record of incubating technologies in-house and then releasing them to the broader market. True to form, Industry Analysts fueled the technology hype. The evolution of software from proprietary to open is an established technology pattern.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 6, 2014

I know how difficult it was for my parents to get me brushing my teeth and in the end, I paid the price with a few painful trips to the dentist’s office. He started to think about some ways to improve on toothbrush technology. Young kids may be entertained at the fact they can play games while brushing their teeth.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

I started in media technology, and built a number of companies, which I was able to build out and get the ball rolling, in digital, nonlinear editing and special effects technology in Hollywood. Hautelook disintermediated the off-price part of the segment. It's the relationship between price and quality. What is value?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2014

Technology brought the world smartphones, smartwatches, smartglasses, and other “smart” technology. Smart-homes are only becoming a more affordable and possible technology many people. ALYT provides users four main comforts: Home Security, Home Automation, Energy Efficiency, and Entertainment Control.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In a short, densley packed timeline, our panel of industry experts discussed the fine line topics of wearables technology, bitcoin, SaaS, cloud, mobile gaming, and social markets. Babak Razi – Founder of Third Waves Ventures, innovator and supporter of emerging high technologies. Summary of Topics. Big or Bust? Big or bust?

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 7, 2019

While current technologies are not quite advanced enough to make Westworld a reality, startups are attempting to replicate the sort of human-robot interaction it presents in virtual space. “A lot of studios are asking how much we price our engine at, but we are targeting the consumer market.

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socalTECH

MAY 4, 2016

We're facilitating connections, and we let both parties interact, and negotiate their own prices, the days they want to shoot, and insurance requirements. With a film shoot, they pay tens times the price, and they reset everything to original condition, and it's covered by insurance. We're not a middleman, but more like a match maker.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2013

I don’t agree, for example, that the first priority is to avoid startups with a high attrition rate, like trendy restaurants and entertainment. The selection of an inappropriate pricing, marketing, or distribution strategy is a large potential risk. Technology risk. Market entry strategy risk.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

Innovations Are More Than Technological Features. "Our "Our business is about technology, yes. These two areas of operational innovation allowed Dell to defeat a number of tech-centric competitors which spent significant money researching and developing technological features, ever briefer product lifecycles.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Even if the price per deal might be lower, they have a greater amount of them, and more predictability of projects. We're a company at the intersection of media and technology, so this is a very fertile place for us to grow. We want to shepherd in a new era of technology, and be part of that process. Where's the service now?

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

In association with some of the regions top trade associations/social networking groups and industry hosts, DFR '09 promises to be the largest holiday party of the season and help weave our various communities of interest into the larger collective family of professionals working in and around the technology industry.

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