socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

One of those is Hollywood-based FilmBreak (www.filmbreak.com), which is applying the world of social networking, media, and the Internet to help film-makers gain access to the analytics and insights they need to better market their films. Lots of them were in online media and entertainment. What is FilmBreak?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

We are the ‘Netflix’ of Africa – with iROKOtv we stream Nollywood (Nigerian Hollywood) movies online, so they are accessible to anyone with an Internet line, anywhere in the world. Why Africa in terms of why did we set the company up there? We can’t disclose revenue as we are a private company. How does it work? Profitable?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

This is a tough one to accomplish, but it has paid off handsomely for the first to win in other categories, such as Amazon Kindle and Netflix. If you want to drive up the demand for your core product, one smart tactic is to drive down the price of all complementary products. Build your own marketplace platform.

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Mobile Develop Development Platform 126

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

There has always been tension between CPG (consumer packaged goods) companies and the retailers who sell their products to consumers. This is true whether it’s physical products or media products. This is an age-old marketplace tension where leverage often determines the value captured. from Charter’s subscribers.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Once this new service became popular then the media companies could control the rules of distribution & advertising. Restricted Supply: We love the content that is produced by the companies that are the primary suppliers to hulu: Modern Family, The Office, The Simpsons or even classics such as Arrested Development.

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Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I cannot recommend it enough for people in the technology or media sectors. In a world where we’ve seen newspapers crumbling, record labels struggling and Blockbuster imploding and making way for the rise of Netflix it seems kinda intuitive to most of us but we can’t quite place why this happens.

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Startup Framework Marketing Customer 376

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. We discussed NY vs. We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

Last week, we talked with Fouad ElNaggar of Redpoint Ventures about some of the interesting companies in Southern California. How is the company funded and backed? He joined Redpoint after we founded the company, but before we had gotten the money. David Aronchick: The net of our jobs is really harnessing the demand.

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Redpoint Startup Content .Net 201

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

TVSync’s parent company Voible , has provided fingerprint protection technology to most major movie studios and TV networks since 2005. There was an inkling of the changes to be when interactive TV services like NetFlix, Hulu and On Demand debuted as frenemies to traditional TV viewing. TVSync is not alone in developing ACR.

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Screening Content Mobile Netflix 82

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

This is a tough one to accomplish, but it has paid off handsomely for the first to win in other categories, such as Amazon Kindle and Netflix. If you want to drive up the demand for your core product, one smart tactic is to drive down the price of all complementary products. Build your own marketplace platform.

Startup 98

Startup Platform Pricing Netflix 98

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2011

The conference brings about panelists from across the platforms in film, television, new media and tech. Deluxe Digital Studios, and Digital Media Directions to understand the goals in the new space of digital film consumption. Did a company shift the move from VHS to DVD years ago? To give consumers comfort in streaming.

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West Los Angeles Netflix Digital Hollywood Hollywood 61

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

And while many of the people bringing you the great applications and infrastructure you now rely on are benevolent, there is of course an inbuilt incentive for these companies to use their scale advantages to continue to dominate the markets they’re in, making it harder for upstarts to compete. Enter blockchain.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

Bauckhage talks about the firm's recent funding from DFJ Espirit, T-Venture, Grazia Equity, and others, and how the company has been helping studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Disney and Paramount market their upcoming releases. and are now one of the largest media outlets for entertainment on the web and Facebook.

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Startup Paramount Netflix Entertainment 164

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

This applies equally to VCs, startups & big company executives. I apply visual thinking for nearly everything I do: preparing for important phone calls (I imagine my opening lines, I imagine the responses), writing keynote presentations, deciding whether or not to invest in a company, preparing for board meetings – you name it.

Writing 356

Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. COMPANY GOOG COMPANY|GOOG. COMPANY YHOO COMPANY|YHOO. COMPANY MSFT COMPANY|MSFT. COMPANY TSLA COMPANY|TSLA. PIXELS IN PARADISE | Andrew Frame, founder of the Internet-telephone company Ooma, paid $5.5 Financial News. Professor Journal. SmartMoney.

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