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JULY 30, 2023

Even if you were an “A-Player” in your previous organization (top 10-percent performer, high integrity, exceeds on commitments), you had peers and executives around you to provide coaching and keep you centered. I now believe that every entrepreneur needs to think like an A-Player. Increase ownership thinking on business efficiency.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

According to the company professional golfer Rory McIlroy, Formula One (F1) driver Daniel Ricciardo, NHL player Connor McDavid, NBA player Klay Thompson and NBA player Jayson Tatum have joined its slate of investors. Size of the investment was not announced. The company already has a long list of celebrity investors.

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

The focus at the Los Angeles-based company is squarely on the games themselves and the players who spend billions of dollars on them. “ Scopely is focused on building the end-to-end publishing capabilities and development capabilities that will result in the longest term relationships with players for years to come,” Driver said.

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APRIL 5, 2020

The new game, called “ Wildeverse ”, uses AR to create a virtual forest that players can explore to find certain animals — or clues to an animal’s whereabouts. The game starts with a chat-based segment introducing players to the gameplay and setting up some context around the virtual environment players will be exploring.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Even if you were an “A-Player” in your previous organization (top 10-percent performer, high integrity, exceeds on commitments), you had peers and executives around you to provide coaching and keep you centered. I now believe that every entrepreneur needs to think like an A-Player. Increase ownership thinking on business efficiency.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

People tell me there are over 5,000 dating sites with scientific matchmaking algorithms, but I couldn’t find one that focused on scientifically matching companies or people for business-to-business (B2B) relationships. Yet, every business expert tells me that finding good business partners is just as tricky as a good marriage, without the sex.

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APRIL 29, 2020

Ewok joins such other brand ambassadors for HyperX as Post Malone, football player JuJu Smith-Schuster, basketball players Joel Embiid and Gordon Hayward, ice hockey player Filip Forsberg and international soccer players Raphal Varane, Dele Alli and Marco Reus.

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JULY 23, 2021

According to the company, the startup is looking to match up players with new friends and competitors as they travel. The company said it is launching a four-week Alpha test in the San Fernando Valley, as it attempts to help gamers build friendships and connect with fellow players in their local community.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

His brother is a professional basketball player and Alston himself played college football at Columbia University. In 2018, NBA players were allowed to start wearing any sneaker color of their choice. The upstart, based in Los Angeles, connects fans to the game-worn apparel of their favorite athletes through a sweepstakes-style model.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 29, 2019

When ProGuides pulled the covers off of its service earlier this year, the young Los Angeles-based startup intended to give gamers a way to train with professional and semi-pro esports players from around the world. A typical session on ProGuides lasts around 45 minutes and players are available for Fortnite, League of Legends.

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

Los Angeles-based Wonder Dynamics, a startup founded by actor Tye Sheridan of "Ready Player One", said it has raised $9M in a Series A funding round. Sheridan is best known for his role in Ready Player One, which centered on an augmented reality world, and also was in X-Men: Apocalypse, among with other films.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

Los Angeles-based daily fantasy sports gaming site Monkey Knife Fight and the NFL Players Association said late Thursday that the NFL Players Association has taken an ownership stake in the gaming site. Financial details of the deal were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 30, 2021

Each player gets ten tries on guessing the code, with 3 fans winning $25,000 in Bitcoin, 50 fans winning $500 in Bitcoin, and another 10,000 people getting a burrito. Each player gets ten tries on guessing the code, with 3 fans winning $25,000 in Bitcoin, 50 fans winning $500 in Bitcoin, and another 10,000 people getting a burrito.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

His thesis is that “A” players amount only to the top ten percent of the talent pool at any given time, and that your job is to find, recruit and retain only “A” players to make a successful business. But finding “A” players is not an easy job, requiring a stretch of resources at each stage of the process.

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JANUARY 18, 2022

Los Angeles-based Mustard, which develops technology which uses artificial intelligence and computer vision to evaluate an athlete's mechanics and to help with coaching, has raised $3.75M in a seed funding, the company said this morning. The company has now raised $6M in total.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Lionel Messi, who’s still arguably the greatest soccer player in the world , signed his first contract with FC Barcelona when he was thirteen years old. And, in all, the sport boasts some 4 billion players and fans around the world. million players, says Castello, and scouts see maybe 50,000 players per year.

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

According to Jam City, it will be featuring cookie recipes from its players in the game, alongside game pieces based on those recipes. Jam City explained the event will create a "mobile recipe exchange" among its players around the world, showcasing player recipes all during the holiday season. READ MORE>>.

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L.A. Business Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Honey Science, which was founded in 2012 to help customers find online shopping deals, made a huge leap from startup to established player in November 2019 when it was acquired for $4 billion in cash from PayPal.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 24, 2020

Limited edition “drops” of virtual sneakers would happen at locations around a city and players could go to those spots and add the virtual sneakers to their collection. Players earned points for traveling to various spots, and those points could be redeemed for in-app purchases or discounts at stores.

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MARCH 6, 2018

The round was comprised of a slew of prominent investment firms and individual investors including the Durant Company, the National Football League Players Association, former NBA commissioner David Stern, Twitter […].

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APRIL 3, 2019

We approached some major licensees, including Major League Baseball, MLBAM, and the player's association. We caught up with Randy Saaf , the CEO of Lucid Sight, to learn more about how exactly the company is doing that, and why. What exactly is Lucid Sight? We created fourteen of the first, 100 free iPhone apps. That got interesting to us.

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MAY 13, 2021

billion in player spending, according to market research company SensorTower. Chinese console players often resort to grey markets for foreign editions because the list of Chinese titles approved by local authorities is tiny compared to what’s available outside the country. In 2020, Honor of Kings alone generated close to $2.5

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Remember that the grass IS almost always greener… The original company was afraid to upset the structure of its salary compensation schema and could not (would not) take the chance to raise the person’s pay to be more than competitive early enough to show the love and trust deserved by the valuable player. The lateral arabesque” is real.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

The company said those effects include experiences tied to when a touchdown is scored, or when a team takes the field, and also special effects for particular players on the field. The Los Angeles Rams have teamed up with a company to provide in-stadium augmented reality (AR) at SoFi Stadium, in a deal with an AR company called ARound.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 24, 2022

Since the launch of Pokémon Go in 2016, players have been coordinating meetups, in-game raids and battles on platforms like Reddit and Discord. “W e’re giving them a platform to better conduct their activities and … for players to find these groups. ” Image Credits: Niantic. ” Image Credits: Niantic.

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DECEMBER 27, 2017

But, which of your A-Players are planning to leave after they get their bonus? By now you know some of the sales people that won’t be with you next year. This post gives you some factors that may predict the.

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MARCH 28, 2019

Fountain Valley-based gaming accessories maker HyperX announced this morning that it has expanded its roster of brand ambassadors, and has added French soccer player Raphael Varane as a HyperX Gaming Brand Ambassador. Varane plays on the French national team. Financial details of the endorsement deal were not announced.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

According to Activision, the beta of its title is available to PlayStation 4 players, giving and early access look to its new, multi-player features. Santa Monica-based game publisher Activision has launched a beta of its latest title in the Call of Duty line, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare.

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APRIL 2, 2019

The company's MLB Champions game allows users to buy, trade, and own their own digital collectibles based on MLB players and the actual results of MLB games, all based on the Ethereum blockchain to enforce scarcity of those players. The startup says the new funding brings its total raised to $11M. The startup's CEO is Randy Saaf.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 28, 2019

For folks who’ve never played the game (or had it explained to them) Fortnite involves dropping 100 players onto an island where they have to find weapons, build bases and try and eliminate the competition until only one player’s left standing. Open, which is set to begin in a few weeks at the same stadium.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Los Angeles-based Type:A Brands, a maker of sweat free deodarant and other body care products, has scored an investment from NBA player Chris Paul and his wife Jada Paul. Sizeo f the investment was not announced. According to the company, the investment came from "Jada's passion and desire to get involved with the brand in a deeper way".

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JANUARY 19, 2022

Polystream's technology helps reduce the size of game client software and allows players to more quickly start playing a game, rather than waiting for a long download. Polystream's technology helps reduce the size of game client software and allows players to more quickly start playing a game, rather than waiting for a long download.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

According to the two, Sense Arena will provide its virtual reality hockey training platform to Kings' players at the team's official practice partnership. The LA Kings are in a partnership on virtual reality hockey training with VR training company Sense Arena, according to AEG and Sense Arena.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

The company says it has created an officially-licensed board game created in partnership with the NBA and National Basketball Players Association. Los Angeles-based game studio Sequoia Games says it has raised a Series A round of funding, from such angels as.

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JUNE 12, 2018

Sane Trilogy at E3 on Monday, saying it has added a new "Future Tense" level for its players. Activision said the new level will be available on June 29th for players on the Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Steam. The new level will be available as bonus content to its players, according to Activision.

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JANUARY 22, 2018

The event will challenge other professional football players to complete Panda Pop levels, and where every 25 levels these pro players complete in Panda Pop between January 22-29, Jam City will donate an additional $2,500 to the charity. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

Esports One lets users create their own, fantasy sports team based on esports players. Santa Monica-based Esports One , an online fantasy esports website, said Thursday that it has raised $4M in a funding round. The funding came from XSeed Capital, Eniac Ventures, and Chestnut Street Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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