Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. with the clips.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

We're always interested in how technology is influencing the business of Hollywood, and recently ran across Los Angeles-based Scripped. Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 Sunil Rajaraman: We provide free, web-based screenwriting software to aspiring writers and professionals in the community.

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Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

At Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 Kevin Winston organized a panel called “How to Find and Hire a Developer”. Then when hiring a developer to build the project, show the developer you already have sales and offer them a percentage of passive income if they work at a lower or no charge rate.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

and are now one of the largest media outlets for entertainment on the web and Facebook. So, the first thing we're recruiting for is a strong sales team, that has a trusted relationship with the studios in LA. So it's going to be a sales team, a business development team, and helping our relationships with YouTube and Facebook.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

My point was that Amazon continues to dominate the web services business because AWS continues to cut prices & margin in the same way a hypermarket does to control market share. And we’re growing our sales organization. Many people (including inside of YouTube) mistook this to mean that I was negative on YouTube itself.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Los Angeles-based maniaTV, which develops video content for the web, said today that it has hired six new executives at the firm.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I recently wrote a blog post here in which I argued that the best VC meetings are discussions and not sales pitches. Many people agreed and added that even the best sales meetings are also discussions and not pitches. We all know that many companies have tried to deliver targeted advertising on the web.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

Each of them has different programs, but we get four to ten percent of a sale. When we started this, we were a web-based platform, because that''s what made the most sense when we started. chicago startup aggregation aggregator hollywood content entertainment laudville interview scott phoebe' What''s the next big thing for you?

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Entertainment Startup Southern California Netflix 206

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

7083 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028. Social Media and Urban Development in Hollywood. Going So-Lo: How Brands are Driving Sales & Personalizing Customer Experiences with Social, Location-Based Marketing. 6712 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90028. Perfect Your Pitch for Web, TV, and Film.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a Hollywood Walk of Fame. Spread through word-of-mouth as the company has no sales team, all engineers. Offers virality optimization tools and A/B testing inside Facebook.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

This is the time it takes for a bankruptcy or asset sale to occur. Instead investors are looking for the next flash sale, private sale, game dynamic, social games that rely on mobile platforms with geo-fenced, location aware offers. I continue to be excited about the Mobile Web (as distinct from the Mobile App).

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

In Michael's case, he promised his parents that he would return to school if the sales at his startup did not meet his expectations. "I Along with Amazon, Dell was also an early pioneer of web-based customer service. "I had to give it a full go and see what happened. I couldn't resist the opportunity.

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Tips Startup Entrepreneur Santa Barbara 247

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Giving you the ability to chat in realtime with all your friends around the web right from TechZulu. ( Put your digital audio content up for sale with AudioMicro, simply and securely. is the leading live video site on the Web, enabling users to create real-time connections with others around the world. Are you interested?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2009

Around 2006, they opened up a sales office here, with a couple of guys talking to the film and games business. All of our sales are out here, engineering, and production staff--with researchers and the big brains, along with our financial people in Manchester--where we're still a corporate UK company. We're that close.

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Metrics Startup Sales Newsletter 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

The emergence of a new era of technologies, collectively known as Web 3.0, Also known as the semantic web or linked data, web 3.0 is a web in which data is linked to allow for more meaningful, actionable insight to be extracted. Put your digital audio content up for sale with AudioMicro, simply and securely.

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

I actually worked in the offline business world until Web 1.0. I ended up doing consulting work for high tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area in the software messaging area, and then came back to Los Angeles doing corporate sales for 3M, of all things. What's your background and how did you get into this?

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Social Media Startup Sites Advertising 241

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away. In Los Angeles we are at a disadvantage because the founder(s) often have no experience in building consumer web applications.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

Saturday evening came to a “closing” with the Coloft tradition of the famous scene from Glengarry Glen Ross where Alec Baldwin defines the meaning of “closing” while he gives a nearly Oscar winning sales talk to motivate his staff. As Avesta Rasouli, SWLA Co-organizer and Founder of Coloft says, “Go sell something! Coffee is for closers!”

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Startup Mahalo Technical Review Idealab 66

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

Moderator: Vince Thompson, Managing Partner, Middleshift LLC Speakers: Carrie Coffee, Mobile Sales Specialist, Mobile Advertising, Microsoft Evan Neufeld, VP Marketing, GROUNDTRUTH. Gannon Hall, COO, Kyte 1:45pm: Mobile Sports, Entertainment and Hollywood: How is the multi-billion dollar entertainment industry leveraging the power of mobile?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We said to the studios--you have this amazing content, why not let us clip it all up, find the best moments in film, and allow users to post those to their blogs and Facebook pages, and let us create curated channels on the web? How is this different than the movie clips floating around the web now? Fascinating story.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We built the website The Numbers, which tracks daily and weekly box office grosses and DVD sales, and we also provider consulting services--primarily to independent filmmakers, or anybody in the industry who needs to get financial data in order to support their business plan or to make investment decisions. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

My daily coffee meetings are not surrounded by the Hollywood elite with discussions of scripts, scenes and casting. Every developer, biz dev person, marketeer or sales rep on your team will be surrounded by scores of companies calling them like Sirens to switch teams. And of course you have Hollywood. Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

Rather than taking their hard work and just leveraging it on the web, the pitch is--we'll do this work for you, put reams and reams more metadata around a given movie, sound bite, TV show episode, or video game. We're now doing revenue share on affiliate revenue, doing revenue share on DVD sales, or ads we run against that content.

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Redpoint Startup Content .Net 201

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

We caught up with CEO Eric Frankel this week to talk about the firm, his decision to go from the comfortable world of Hollywood as President of Warner Bros Domestic Television Distribution, to a startup, how the firm is using the cloud to power it service, as well as where the firm is going next.

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Entertainment Startup Class Santa Barbara 159

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Hautelook was able to help define--and conquer--the online flash sales category, in record time. 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.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

We've created a channel and web page for every one of our partner schools and school districts, and we distribute the content there. We take the game content, wrap it with high quality shows, distributed that with YouTube, and utilize our sales organization to drive traffic and maximize revenue on that.

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Content Google Southern California Orange County 212

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

It's something like between $50M and $100M in sales per year. That works like Docstoc, which is now probably the fastest growing web site for small businesses. First, we're geographically spread out, with silos far away--in Pasadena, the Valley, Hollywood, etc. Why did you decide to launch the Docstore now?

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0 Forum December 9th Lineup - Startup Houston , November 27, 2010 When to step on the gas and go for it?

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

When I arrived in Hollywood, everybody had written a screenplay," he says. Last summer, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss—twins best known for suing Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, and who recently formed a venture-capital firm—bought an 8,000-square-foot bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills for $18 million.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Much of web video search is bad at finding “the good stuff&# including YouTube itself. It’s clear that when people watch movies now they Tweet about it when they get out and this has an impact on box office sales. Trying searching for something on Hulu. Then try the same search on Clicker. And then try it on Hulu.

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