Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

The power of large screen real estate. They are more likely to be the “bottom end of the sales funnel” or in other words close to “point of purchase.” I have talked with people in the industry who tell me that mobile movie sites convert ticket sales much higher than desktop websites.

Web 334

Web Mobile Startup Software Review 334

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

” while watching the screen and registering nothing. 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. I’m staring at my screen, and there they were.

Entertainment 98

Entertainment Advertising Startup Media 98

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Dana Settle & I are hosting a dinner tonight (10/20/10) with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film & digital media. Think of about the rise of Japanese Anime , Spanish Novelas , Korean Drama or the rise of Bollywood entertainment from India. Or some unforeseen technology?

Content 386

Content Google Media Hulu 386

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

Nordstrom sales reps are trained to do this to, but of course they can’t know every customer that walks around the store. Publishers have been reluctant to put phone numbers on Internet ads because then they lose the ability to track the fact that they drove the sale in the first place. Or can they? to 2x the average order value.

Mobile 329

Mobile Advertising Media Marketing 329

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

YouTuber Caspar Lee, the co-founder of a startup called Influencer, attends the UK Gala Screening of “Wonder Park” in London, England (Photo by David M. Los Angeles-based funds, in closer proximity to the entertainment industry, have been quicker to invest in the creator economy. Benett/Dave Benett/WireImage).

Platform 170

Platform Marketing Tool Venture Capital 170

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2011

3D Movies, 3D Printing, 3D Televisions, 3DS, our entire screen world is turning 3D and now its time for your mobile screen to get in on the fun. I wanted to find out if the 3D effects were useful and people would enjoy playing with or was it just something to tack on to a mobile device to try and increase sales? Sporting a 4.3-inch

Software Review 77

Software Review Screening Orange County Mobile 77

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

YouTube has a player which works in Google hangouts, so they can instantly screen your work or your pitch, and you can get instant feedback that way. I started writing, doing production, and wrote a winning student short, and also worked at Creative Artist in film distribution and sales. Those teachers are what set us apart.

Web 187

Web Content Startup Education 187

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

At JAMDAT he designed the most successful mobile games – (Bowling, Bejeweled Multiplayer & Solitaire) and knows what drives engagement on “the small screen.&# And Austin Murray runs sales & marketing – a role he also held at JAMDAT. Management, SVP North American Sales and SVP European Publishing.

Gogii 310

Gogii Invest Blogging Startup 310

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Sites like KickStarter have for years offered rewards and pre-sales for crowd investments, but real equity won’t be legalized until sometime this year for people other than accredited investors. Responsive web technology that re-sizes text and images to fit any screen is the norm with new websites. Super-angels. Social mobile web.

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Startup Web Equity 109

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

OP: myLINGO is a smartphone app where you can select and download an audio track of a movie in your preferred language and go to the theatre and have that audio track synchronize to the movie playing on the screen. Entertainment. We have many entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles, many of whom are working in the entertainment sector.

Startup 91

Startup Entertainment CTO Coach Screening 91

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

The Black Tux online tuxedo rental, which is reinventing the customer experience in the antiquated $10B+ tuxedo rental and sales industry. The Blayze network already reaches or 200 million viewers and has generated thousands in sales. Within three months, Panjo has achieved hundreds of thousands in monthly gross merchandise sales.

Class 100

Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Those companies are already going to be crushed by Skype’s new screen sharing capabilities.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Looking towards at the end of this year or early next year for our first outside seed round and plan out to build an Android and web version and do marketing and sales. The bigger screen, the better. It put us in a really good position where we build something and showed we can do it and build it in a way that is very efficient.

Startup 106

Startup Design Mobile Software Review 106

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Another big innovator in helping manage cloud implementations is Okta , founded by Todd McKinnon, the former VP of Engineering at Salesforce.com (who knows a thing or two about cloud services) and Freddy Kerrest who was senior in biz dev & sales at Salesforce and was there from 2002-07. This is the top layer in the Cloud Stack.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Heather Wilburn – Founding Member of AdWords Program & Biz Dev Manager for Channel Sales team at Google. The company hopes to prepare advertisers for varying screen sizes. Until then, we’ll be focused on gimmicky applications and entertainment. Peter Csathy jumps in to answer questions about content.

Startup 95

Startup Google Education Venture Capital 95

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

When tickets went on sale over a month ago, we expected the regular ticket sales cycle, however we were more than surprised when Startup Weekend LA sold out in 6 hours! Also of note was Ryan Orrico’s launch of HandJob, a new form of job applicant screening and referral tracking.

Los Angeles 73

Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2013

I was with SAP America for about 7 years heading different roles such as consulting, product management, and sales. There are real-time collaboration tools we provide where you can instantly have a chat or video call with a client, share screen option, and share and view different types of files to help increase productivity.

Social Media 92

Social Media Social Network Tool Mobile 92

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I recently invested in a company in the media & entertainment sector (this will be announced in a couple of months) so I’ve been thinking a lot about how the industry works, why the structure has evolved the way it did, why the company I invested in has had so much success and what this all implies for the future.

Writing 356

Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” Matt McKinney is the Founder of TiesForCharity.com, a trendy tie company that donates a percentage of each tie sale to unique charities.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78