TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

Meanwhile, new venture-backed companies like the superstealthy Shadows, SuperPlastic and Toonstar are all developing virtual characters that will launch via social media channels like Snap and Instagram, or on their own platforms. The makers of the virtual influencer, Lil Miquela, snag real money from Silicon Valley.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2023

It’s tempting to believe that one more new platform will win for crowd funding or video games, like Indiegogo and Wii. Actually, great new customer solutions lead to great platforms, not the other way around. The fallacy of formulas that “can’t fail,” and holding on to troubled ventures, is alive and well in startups.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2013

Yekra also allows creators to establish an exclusivity rights period and set up distribution to other platforms including Netflix and Hulu Plus. by angel investor Maurice Gallagher and UK’s Bray Capital. The post Yekra’s Digital Rights Distribution and AffiliateConnect Platform Raises $3M appeared first on TechZulu.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

After this connection, you need not share the 30% of all revenue collected by the store platform. Make your app support all platforms. Port every app to all the popular platforms – IOS and Android. Build your own marketplace platform. Position yourself to capitalize on the next frontier. Be aggressive and alert.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

Nasty Gal CEO Sophia Amoruso is credited with coining the term in the title of her 2014 memoir, “#Girlboss,” which chronicled her rags-to-riches success and was adapted into a Netflix show. Nguyen is founder and CMO of Fanhouse , a creator platform that just raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2020

It’s tempting to believe that one more new platform will win for crowd funding or video games, like Indiegogo and Wii. Actually, great new customer solutions lead to great platforms, not the other way around. The fallacy of formulas that “can’t fail,” and holding on to troubled ventures, is alive and well in startups.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Silicon Valley’s big VC firm’s The Social+Capital Partnership, Andreessen Horowitz, Formation8, Ron Conway, and Anand Rajaraman have today launched Data Elite , to help tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges through data science. Venture lab & early stage fund for big data startups and scientists.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

After this connection, you need not share the 30% of all revenue collected by the store platform. Make your app support all platforms. Port every app to all the popular platforms – IOS and Android. Build your own marketplace platform. Position yourself to capitalize on the next frontier. Be aggressive and alert.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2015

It’s tempting to believe that one more new platform will win for crowd funding or video games, like Indiegogo and Wii. Actually, great new customer solutions lead to great platforms, not the other way around. The fallacy of formulas that “can’t fail,” and holding on to troubled ventures, is alive and well in startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Hyper-local, flash marketing platform connecting consumers with local business offers; super majority of offers are restaurant and personal services; competitor to Groupon. But Google’s investment seems to be focused on supporting a payment platform that can support the Android ecosystem. I think you’ll enjoy watching.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

That was the first time I raised any kind of capital, $600,000 in capital, for a social gifting platformback when Facebook was very generous with data. Every single TV service online, from Hulu, to Netflix, and on requires people to search and find content, and really makes people work.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

We give way 500Mb of free data to all of our users, and users can also early additional, free minutes for connecting to their friends on the platform and participating on partner offers and promotions. You earn 10Mb in free data for each person you connect to on the platform, which brings down our acquisition costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2016

It’s tempting to believe that one more new platform will win for crowd funding or video games, like Indiegogo and Wii. Actually, great new customer solutions lead to great platforms, not the other way around. The fallacy of formulas that “can’t fail,” and holding on to troubled ventures, is alive and well in startups.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

Obviously, anyone except the largest five to ten content companies in the world, such as Google, Netflix, or Amazon, does not need to own their own CDN. We happen to be very profitable company, but as we look to grow, also need to explore different sources of capital. Really, it's just another source of capital.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 10, 2019

Some of these platform companies, taken together, now have a shared nickname: “FAANG,” which. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). Warby Parker produces modern eyewear at affordable prices, Apple produces elegant, premium technology products, Netflix offers an enormous library of binge-worthy, unique video. from Charter’s subscribers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. The Spark Capital website (it’s one of my favorites). Current round: $10mm in Series B by Norwest (lead), Storm Ventures and Adams Capital. Other Deals.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. No platform is naïve enough to allow an outsider to grow enormously large in their ecosystem without an appropriate tax or benefit to them. It would take 2 years to catch up but believe me they have the capital to do so. We did the planning work up front.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC. We are a venture capital growth equity fund in Washington DC with about $500m invested.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. . Venture Capital Funding 7. I'm 30, now will you take me seriously? Inventing Stuff, Obviously Impossible? Relaxing 2.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. Breakout companies become much harder and this isn’t likely to improve unless we give new companies the tools and capital they need to flourish. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat.

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