TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Riot Ventures , the Los Angeles-based, early-stage and deep technology investment firm is going out to market to raise a $75 million second fund to finance the development of startups in LA and beyond, according to fundraising documents viewed by TechCrunch. Marcus has a long background in angel investing and company creation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

In my role as a mentor to entrepreneurs and an angel investor, I find that too many are stuck in this myth that a good pitch, and good marketing content, should consist of more product features, and more hype on customer benefits. We all want to be entertained. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 11/25/2017.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 23, 2018

The evolution of home entertainment offers numerous opportunities for startups to leverage the new and innovative ways consumers are digesting audio content. Although this strategy will generate revenue in the near-term, a more prudent approach is to create marketing strategies which engage users via entertaining and relevant content.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2016

To that end, we brought in Kelli Castellano as Chief Marketing Officer, formerly with NextGen Healthcare, and Kirk Paul Kirkman as President of the TigerText Client Organization, from athenahealth, to drive our healthcare integration. Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Today's contribution is from Lawrence Ng , serial entrepreneur who, last year, founded OnRamp Fund , a $10 million incubator that invests in early stage startups. Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017? It combines innovation and entertainment. Lawrence C.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

exabytes per month at the end of 2017, of which more than half was video. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. With the adoption of the Internet, digital entertainment has rocketed across the world, changing how people entertain themselves. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Next year, we plan on building it into a bigger business and in April 2017, we'll be doing it again, but this time in New York. It's called Flyte Bike and it was created by an entrepreneur that works out of HUB101 with me named Robin Palmer. Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017?

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 7, 2019

I think in this age and time, that’s not what we want to get into,” Xinjie Ma, who heads up marketing for rct, told TechCrunch. “We appreciate a lot the support and opportunities given by Baidu and during the years we have grown up dramatically,” said Ma, who previously oversaw marketing at Raven. .

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

We spoke earlier with Cody Simms , Executive Director of Techstars America and who leads the program in LA, to hear more about why the startup accelerator operator is opening up its third accelerator here, why Los Angeles has turned out to be one of the leading sources for startups across its network, as well as Cody's advice to entrepreneurs.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Third Wave Digital (Allen DeBevoise), Dream Maker Entertainment Ltd. Entertainment Co., Nikhil Jain: We plan on doing our product launch in Q2 of 2017. A lot of our partners liked that, because the product we are making with them is going to available to the mass market, in an easy-to-use manner. Where is the product now?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2017

In the entrepreneur world, most of the energy I see is focused on the current opportunity bubbles, now including anything mobile, the new sharing economy (Uber, Airbnb), or yet another social media app (Snapchat, WhatsApp). There is no substitute for market research and independent verification that a large opportunity exists.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Coming Summer 2017, Doppels will introduce a smart gifting tool that allows users to send gifts that match the celebrant’s interest based on profile and location. Download Doppels for iOS and Android is coming Summer 2017. To date, Doppels has over 260,000 users and acquire about 1,000 new members each day, said Hagger.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2017

If every entrepreneur could predict the future, starting the right new business would be easy. Autos for drivers: Waning market demand. These cultures bring a whole new set of needs in food, entertainment, and lifestyle. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 06/12/2017. Technology won’t solve this one.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

As you know, today, video is one of the primary means of communications from a personal, corporate, and entertainment level. We bought our first company in 2017 to create this, and we rolled up a few companies to bring this vision to life. It turned out that media, entertainment, and digital media is a very good place to be.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Ironically, the most common desire I hear from entrepreneurs selling wholly online, is the need for their entry into retail, as the next step in their growth strategy. Test new things and keep testing in your market for things that work. Look for growth in emerging global market geographies. For existing businesses, it’s harder.

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