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JULY 12, 2017

What you might not realize is that the adorable droid was the brain child of Sphero, a robotics and digital technology company and an alumni to the Disney Accelerator program. Courtesy of Sphero & Disney. Meet the 11 startups for 2017: Ambidio.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Entertainment Press 108

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MARCH 24, 2014

Working with early-stage teams : coaching, mentoring, setting strategy, rolling up sleeves: 9/10. Disney Acquires Maker Studios f0r $500 million and with earn-out potentially up to $950 million. Sourcing high-quality leads : 9/10. Since then? AOL Acquires Gravity for $90 million. Apple – Burstly / TestFlight.

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Venture Capital Downey Writing Press 387

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APRIL 27, 2014

Twitter, LinkedIn, Salesforce not to mention Disney, Warner, GM, P&G. You have to figure out when to be the up-beat coach, “It will all get better, stay confident, keep the course” or the honest voice in one’s ear, “Listen mate, you’ve been protecting your head of product for far too long.

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Venture Capital Invest Press Startup 374

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MARCH 23, 2015

So part of playing an effective coach is helping the team to see the answer for themselves. Fred has of course been a public mentor to us all with his market-defining terminology that he popularized including “freemium” and “mobile first.” Being early got me my first $1 billion exit (Maker to Disney).

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Venture Capital Startup Writing Blogging 150

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DECEMBER 14, 2014

And then of course our friends at TechStars launched an accelerator in collaboration with our friends at Disney so now there was six. We are happy to now support every & all accelerator in town that provides capital and office space and we want to focus on mentorship, coaching, advice, community building, etc. And Jamie hers.

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Venture Capital Startup Idealab Funding 290

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JUNE 8, 2014

Maker Studios, the largest producer of online short-form videos (content) recently sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion. It was always more likely that auto industry commerce prowess would come from LA or Detroit. I don’t need to tell you what else is LA … SnapChat, Whisper, Tinder. All great communication companies.

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Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390