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Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Impact entertainment “accelerator” inks deal with Netflix

TechCrunch LA

Imagine Impact , the entertainment accelerator launched by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard to try and bring Silicon Valley-style mentorship and project development techniques to Hollywood, has inked a development deal with Netflix and is looking for submissions. The companies did not disclose the financial terms of the agreement.

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6 Mistakes Often Made By Entrepreneurs Due To Passion

Startup Professionals Musings

As an entrepreneur mentor and startup investor, I see with sadness the 50 to 90 percent that fail. Or ask PlanetRx, an online service for prescriptions, before the Internet was pervasive. If you ask them for a reason, most will insist that they couldn’t get funding, or they ran out of money too early. Fail fast and pivot.

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6 Ways To Doom Your Startup Despite A Great Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

As an entrepreneur mentor and startup investor, I see with sadness the 50 to 90 percent that fail. Or ask PlanetRx, an online service for prescriptions, before the Internet was pervasive. If you ask them for a reason, most will insist that they couldn’t get funding, or they ran out of money too early. Fail fast and pivot.

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Interview with Wade Eyerly, SurfAir

socalTECH

Wade Eyerly: Basically, it's a flat fee, subscription, all-you-can fly private plane service. We've hugely overbuilt infrastructure here, which we are leveraging for our service. By bringing our service to regional airports, you're much closer to home. Think of it like Netflix. What's the idea behind SurfAir?

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Interview with Michele Ruiz and Dan Gould, BiasSync

socalTECH

Michele Ruiz: Robin Richards and I formed the company, after he approached me, after having been a business mentor for me for fifteen years. Michele Ruiz: The only thing I would add, is this is a software-as-a-service solutioneverything is on our online platform. Here, we wanted to build a Netflix-like experience for this.

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Don’t Let Your Business Be A Dead Startup Walking

Startup Professionals Musings

As an entrepreneur mentor and startup investor, I see with sadness the 50 to 90 percent that fail. Or ask PlanetRx, an online service for prescriptions, before the Internet was pervasive. If you ask them for a reason, most will insist that they couldn’t get funding, or they ran out of money too early. Fail fast and pivot.

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6 Ways Startups Are Fooled By Prior Business Models

Startup Professionals Musings

As an entrepreneur mentor and startup investor, I see with sadness the 50 to 90 percent that fail. Or ask PlanetRx, an online service for prescriptions, before the Internet was pervasive. If you ask them for a reason, most will insist that they couldn’t get funding, or they ran out of money too early. Fail fast and pivot.

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