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Entrepreneurs Love Celebrity Investors While VCs (Usually) Hate Them

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However, such alignment is missing at most tech startups, and thus there is little causality between a celeb’s investment and their ability to drive meaningful product adoption. Celebrity investors aside, I am a fan of high net worth individuals who are willing to allocate some of their risk capital to foster a startup''s success.

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Amazon Ramps Studio Efforts, Looks For Comedy, Children's Series

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Amazon said it will option one new project a month--worth $10,000--and will pay $55,000 plus 5 percent of Amazon's net receipts from toy and t-shirt licensing, as well as other royalties to any proposal it decides to make into a full-budget series. Amazon Studios launched in November of 2010. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Sam Rogoway, Near Networks

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Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service. Sam Rogoway: Near Networks is a national production studio that creates online videos for local businesses across the country.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

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Production costs have fallen more than 90%. My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley and Who Will Win. You can’t change media consumption patterns easily. The future of the Internet is video.

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Mark Suster’s Advice To Emerging Entrepreneurs – “Do Not Do, As I Have Done”

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Mark encourages emerging entrepreneurs to be bold, yet he admits that with his first startup, he boldly pushed PR before the product was ready. But our product wasn’t ready for primetime. ” Clearly, the right time to trumpet your product is when it can live up to the media hype. Do product meetings yourself.

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TechZulu Partners with meebo!

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A few sponsorship spots still available for early 2010 events: TechZulu still has a few slots open for our early 2010 events for our large diverse audience — social media users, venture capitalist, PR people, developers, bloggers, Hollywood entertainment and many more. You’ll receive recognition as a thank you for your sponsorship.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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But throughout the transition I had my safety net. Coming from the world of academia, did you feel you had to overtly fight the Hollywood stereotype that business leaders have to be greedy and vindictive to win? . “In The transition [from Citrix Online] to RightScale was similar. Hiring is difficult no matter where you are.