Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

Andrew was SVP of Mobile at Fox Digital Entertainment which launched the very successful Simpsons online game (curse you for wasting tons of my kids free time!) and Petri was co-founder and head of creative at Remedy Entertainment that launched the hit PC games Max Payne and Alan Wake. They also had much experience before that.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2009

The founders Los Angeles-based GumGum , a startup which offers ad-supported, celebrity and entertainment photos for blogs and other web sites, has diverged into the online ad business, saying this week that it has launched a separate, advertising service called Bedrock. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 14, 2009

Contrary to the common belief that Southern California "should be an easy place to raise money" with all of its' entertainment and real estate wealth, it is a very difficult place to raise Venture Capital for technology start-ups. So how does an entrepreneur based in SoCal get the attention of VC funds today?

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

First it was street-style photography, then came the launch of her popular fashion blog WeWoreWhat. Bain Capital Ventures' Jamison Hill. The company plans to give creators and influencers more independence from existing platforms by allowing them access to funding from a team well-versed in their unique capital needs.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2016

The reality television show Shark Tank makes for entertaining content but many of its underlying messages are potentially detrimental to tech entrepreneurs. I get that Shark Tank is a TV show focused on entertaining its viewers. Experienced entrepreneurs have no issues parsing where reality stops and entertainment begins.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

Although many are entertaining, most fail to provide entrepreneurs with a sufficient return on their time investment. If you are a leader at a startup and you are reading a business book, you are not closing customers, raising capital, improving your product, or spending time with your loved ones. I was not disapointed.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

I wrote a blog post on how to work with lawyers at a startup nearly two-and-a-half years ago. This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. And a fourth partner – Jennifer Massey – will join from an entertainment background. It was very widely read. Startup-focused.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

The reason why, is we're more than a consulting firm, in that we also provide access to capital, and access to production, resources, and talent. Yahoo is on the block�I just wrote a piece on my blog with data points that reflect that�and you can see all of the activity happening, as I anticpated, in media and technology consolidation.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2013

This traveling player can allow direct digital rentals from any blog, Facebook page, Twitter profile or other online site. by angel investor Maurice Gallagher and UK’s Bray Capital. Business Entertainment Startups Video Bray Capital Danny Trejo Ed Hardy Maurice Gallagher Tattoo Tattoo Nation Trvis Barker Yekra'

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Dear Friends, We have no income and no venture capital funding. Our inventory is being financed by companies with names like Chase, Citibank, First USA and Capital One. blogging, in a sense. If we had a blogging platform then, we would have been blogging. We started sending out the newsletter. every three weeks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

We know now that people learn from a younger age, and keep coming back for more, from sources that are entertaining and educational ( edutainment ). There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. Think about venture capital. But if you were going to start a venture capital fund today, you’d want to stand out. My views are pretty well known.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Dallas —Partners with a deep well of subject matter expertise and capital are on the top of any entrepreneur’s wish list. The new Blue Star Accelerator, aimed at nurturing young tech companies in sports and entertainment, is expected to open up shop after the start of the new year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2018

We know now that people learn from a younger age, and keep coming back for more, from sources that are entertaining and educational ( edutainment ). There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2017

I read commentary or Twitter or blogs and realize that there are also strongly held convictions that there are these evil VCs who do terrible things to mostly altruistic founders. The rise of crowd funding saw the first wave of founders gleeful that they could raise capital without having to deal with terrible VCs.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Dear Friends, We have no income and no venture capital funding. Our inventory is being financed by companies with names like Chase, Citibank, First USA and Capital One. blogging, in a sense. If we had a blogging platform then, we would have been blogging. We started sending out the newsletter. every three weeks.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 16, 2013

The presentation is meant to give an unbiased overview of how to get involved in the tech community; what blogs to read, who to follow on Twitter, who the angel investors are, what areas in LA are home to the most startups and what resources there are to further educate yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2016

We know now that people learn from a younger age, and keep coming back for more, from sources that are entertaining and educational ( edutainment ). There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. He has been blogging on a number of subjects, for example, eLearning.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

Here it seems that entrepreneurs are coming out of business school, transitioning from corporate life, or hail from the entertainment industry. Whereas in Silicon Valley, you can have a V.1 Challenge #3 – There Needs to Be More Institutional Capital in Los Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

I’m already 2 weeks late in writing this blog post as my partners keep reminding me. Background: GRP Partners is a Los Angeles based Venture Capital firm with additional operations in London and Paris. Creative Artists Agency ( CAA ) is a prominent entertainment and sports agency headquartered in Los Angeles. Yesterday.

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Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2019

billion in new capital Thursday as the company completed an IPO that set its market capitalization at $24.3 million shares at $72 apiece, according to Renaissance Capital —the top of a new range that Lyft originally set at $62 to $68. billion, The New York Times reported. Lyft sold 30.8 The company was valued at $15.1

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Xconomy

JULY 20, 2018

Time to curl up in your cubicle, pop open one of these in-depth, entertaining reads, and catch up on some of what you missed during a busy week. You’ve made it to Friday. This week we’re taking a look at all the political stories that are coming out of the tech world.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Venture Capital: Upfront Ventures. Fun Fact: One of the most prominent figures from their firm, Mark Suster t, runs a blog startups follow religiously. Entertainment Tech: Atom Factory. Silicon Beach Fest is Digital LA’s bi-annual startup entertainment festival featuring panels, showcases, hack-a-thons, and more.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

This waste of effort and capital could have been avoided states Ries if they would have been asking the right questions of their customers and used their existing customer base to test and validate new features. Blogs are a great way to engage a specific type of customer. Customers that post to your blog are of two different types.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In 2006, a platform called FanLib raised $3 million in venture capital to launch a platform where copyright owners (like ViacomCBS, which owns “Star Trek”) could host fan fiction contests to engage fans. This mistrust goes back years to the founding of Archive of Our Own.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Co-founder and CEO of BlogHer the leading participatory news, entertainment and information network for women online, reaching more than 15 million women each month via annual conferences, a Web hub, and an publishing network of more than 2,500 qualified, contextually targeted blog affiliates. . Rick Heitzmann.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Founder and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, the visionary multimedia venture spanning movies, TV, sports, and new media, Peter Guber is among the most successful executives in the entertainment and communications industries. Eric Ries is the author of the blog Startup Lessons Learned and the lean startup methodology. Brian Solis.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based MOVIECLIPS.COM (www.movieclips.com) announced the firm's Series A funding round, worth $3M, from Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital, and a number of Silicon Valley angels. Rich Raddon: When Zach and I came together, I had been working in LA for fifteen years in entertainment and traditional media.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Jason Cohen, Capital Thought. Removing the Middleman: Embedding Shopping on Your Blog. In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. The PepsiCo10 program in 2010 saw the company team up with Mashable and Highland Capital Partners to. Entrepreneurism / Monetization.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Myspace is a social entertainment network that suggests new musical acts to you and keeps you updated with new releases of your favourite musical acts. This includes contents like Videos, Photos, Blog Posts and Forum Threads. LAGbook expands your social experience, we’re the social network for meeting new people.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 15, 2018

More days than not, Michael Colaneri’s home is a hotel room. So innovations like “geolocation” sensors that automatically unlock his room door and adjust the thermostat when he’s nearby make the constant change easier—sometimes. “My My experience has been exceptionally inconsistent,” he says.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2019

Imagine the transportation future 20 years from now. Here’s one way things could roll on a weekday: Many of us get picked up at home by a sturdy, standardized, driverless car that will also scoop up a few of our neighbors who work at other businesses near ours.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 16, 2019

When Propeller Health’s founders initially tried to raise funding for their new healthcare technology venture, many of the investors they spoke with were hesitant to take the risk. It was the early part of this decade, and Propeller was navigating the FDA’s regulatory process for medical devices.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Such ideas require little-to-no capital, usually last for a relatively short duration and are of nominal size. If the crowd is gathered to see an entertainer, you could sell T-shirts, posters, etc. He is also the author of an award-winning entrepreneurial blog infoChachkie.com. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

René Pinnell says he and his wife Selena Pinnell were “blown away” by the virtual reality projects their friends were creating in 2014, so they looked for an entrepreneurial niche that would allow them to support such artists. That year the couple, both trained in design, founded a startup in San Francisco, then called KaleidoscopeVR.

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