Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2022

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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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 16, 2020

These opportunities are creating an opening for Watertower Ventures in markets far beyond the Hollywood hills. Later, at Jeffries Technologies, and the $120 million Entertainment Media Ventures seed and early stage venture capital fund, Norton was intimately involved in bringing tech to market and focusing on early stage investments.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The latest investment is being used to finance the acquisition of another company in the space — Appetize, a digital and mobile commerce payments platform for enterprises such as sports and entertainment venues, theme parks and zoos. SpotOn is paying $415 million in cash and stock for the Los Angeles-based company.

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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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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

In 2016, our Santa Monica office more than doubled market share of early-stage companies. Other examples include media tech companies ZEFR and GumGum � both having record years and positioned extremely well for continued growth in 2017. Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017?

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Since its inception, HTT recognized that creating a market around a mode of transportation that had not yet been created would take a movement. In January 2017, HTT announced that the company was opening a research facility in Tououse, France to work on prototyping.

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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. Oculus, Snap, Tinder and others.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 26, 2018

just past the AMC Center) , the virtual reality game-maker Survios planted its first flag in the market for location-based gaming. But that’s still a far smaller market than the 10 million game consoles that were sold in the U.S. ” Bennett knows a thing or two about entertainment.

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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 28, 2016

Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017? It combines innovation and entertainment. Two good examples are children's entertainment company (Spin Master) which launched an AR drone-racing game for the holiday season. Lawrence C.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 15, 2018

The company counts major clients like TripAdvisor, Lululemon, HD Supply, Express Scripts and Spirit Airlines, among its roster of customers and will use the funding led by Battery to further expand its sales and marketing and product development efforts. “We were impressed with AuditBoard’s product and its customer traction.

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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. I love it because it shows how there are so many ways to innovate, not always hi-tech, and if you find the right market / problem to tackle, it doesn't have to be super-complicated. Alon Goren: Delegate!

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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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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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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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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

MARCH 6, 2017

There is no substitute for market research and independent verification that a large opportunity exists. Even early positive feedback from early adopters may be misleading relative to the volume market. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 02/17/2017. If it sounds like an easy deal, there is probably a catch.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2018

Our system works on under-the-table payments of below-market wages for jobs that our non-Hispanic citizens don’t want to do and in a country where people our unemployment rate is already so low that some economists are warning about inflation due to full employment. She was graduated in 2017?—?the Invisibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2017

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. American’s long love affair with owning and driving a car is over. Women: On the move.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Scott Alderton: No single piece of news, but a theme going on 15 years - Stubbs Alderton & Markiles is still dedicated to representing entrepreneurs and technology companies big and small in the Emerging Growth and Technology markets. Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017?

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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The obvious slight he made that went largely unnoticed was the lack of Latino representation and it’s a big freaking market gap that is set to explode. Large groups that are cut out of traditional representation are precisely the groups that achieve breakout successes by getting around the system and giving the market what they want directly.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Cody Simms: Ultimately, our mission is to be the best, global ecosystem for bringing new technology to market. One could argue that in 2010, 2011, and 2012, that growth was in the video and entertainment area. Cody Simms: Applications will open in January, on January 17th, 2017, and they will close April 9th, 2017.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Test new things and keep testing in your market for things that work. Look for growth in emerging global market geographies. There will always be markets where the culture, income levels, or the products don’t lend themselves to online. Perhaps they need to add a coffee bar, or other entertainment options.

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