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JULY 27, 2013

What I loved about the founding team from day 1 was that the founders were all people who tried to break into Hollywood and found the system closed. Seth is one of the most decent human beings in the venture industry so the rant was off base. Take Maker Studios. Nothing good ever comes from that – even if you are right.

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AUGUST 28, 2012

The following week, I joined AT&T Hackathon at iO/LA in Hollywood and again pitched the idea. THIRD TIME’S A CHARM: On Sunday we presented to a panel of judges consisting of entrepreneurs and a VC investor. The following day, I again tried asking for access in order to setup everyone’s email.

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MARCH 1, 2010

Surprisingly, Hollywood hasnt played a major role in the formation of new companies, which have tended to be in less glamorous though more lucrative areas like lead-generation and service (with obvious exceptions like JibJab and Hulu, a joint venture of Fox and NBC). And what happened in L.A. is--were not Sand Hill Road, right?

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