Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Facebook has created an environment where millions of people can hold billions of conversations with people and companies, transforming how people expect to interact with each other and the world. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2019

by Joseph Jaffe and Maarten Albarda, both experienced marketers working with new companies, as well as larger firms. These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Every aspect of the business of entertainment media and other content providers, and their traditional sources of revenue, are under assault by disruptive business models. In a world dominated by Google, Apple and Facebook, can the other content and media companies retain or regain their former glory? TCOSC Digital Media Society.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

The company recently raised $8M in a funding from Evolution Media, Aspect Ventures, Upfront Ventures, as well as a long list of angels. How did you start the company? I spent a lot of time with companies like Kickstarter, Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Youtube to understand what these platforms were giving to creators.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Facebook has created an environment where millions of people can hold billions of conversations with people and companies, transforming how people expect to interact with each other and the world. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

Facebook has created an environment where millions of people can hold billions of conversations with people and companies, transforming how people expect to interact with each other and the world. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

For this morning's company profile, we thought we'd connect with ShareSquare (www.getsharesquare.com), a newly funded Los Angeles startup focused on QR barcodes -- 3D barcodes -- focused on musicians and entertainers. We caught up with Matthias Galica , the firm's founder, to hear more about the company.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This nuanced approach can cater to the most specific of viewer moods and preferences, ensuring a seamless entertainment experience. Precision and Recall Metrics: Define a process to assess the precision (the relevance of retrieved documents) and the recall (how many of the relevant documents were fetched).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 10, 2009

Private or public, the rules and metrics have gone the way of GM, AIG or the best guess of your Uncle Charlie. On July 14th we will have an interesting session on finding the current method to value a private company. Some of these guidelines can be applied to smaller public companies. See [link] (more).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

In China, even tiny bike sharing companies now have to digitally track every bike through GPS, and every mobile interaction between a bike and a rider to compete. The days of manual reservations and receipts are behind us, whether it be with rides, clothing, meals, or entertainment.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

We caught up with Rachel recently to hear more about the company. What''s the story behind the company? I was running the largest deals in the media and entertainment video area across many different Google products. I also lead our media and entertainment vertical practice. The metrics are very solid. What is FEM?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

by Joseph Jaffe and Maarten Albarda, both experienced marketers working with new companies, as well as larger firms. These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

by Joseph Jaffe and Maarten Albarda, both experienced marketers working with new companies, as well as larger firms. These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining.

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Marketing Social Media Framework Media 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

by Joseph Jaffe and Maarten Albarda, both experienced marketers working with new companies, as well as larger firms. These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining.

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Media Marketing Startup Framework 101

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2013

Squabbler, a video engagement platform for web and mobile publishers has launched new features and the next generation of its video engagement platform in a move that will power engagement for sports, entertainment and news publishers a like. Watch video metrics, track performance. Customized content.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We caught up with Michele and Dan to better understand why they founded the company, and why this market was such an interest to them. Michele Ruiz: BiasSync provides a solution for companies, state and federal agencies, school districts, and organizations to assess and manage unconscious bias in the workplace. What is BiasSync?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2014

The two-day Summit encompassed 70 company presentations from successful founders, 30 featured speakers, 40 early stage award nominees, 50 renowned judges, a series of roundtable discussions, and networking and relationship-building opportunities. Ninja Metrics. Hitesh Chawla, CEO. Silver Push. Impact Zone Award – Data & Analytics.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

What types of companies will be part of Techstars LA? The companies really are at the discretion of the managing director and team on the types and focus areas of the companies who will be included. We started in Boulder, Colorado, all the way back in 2007, with just ten companies. billion combined. Startups are hard.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. Graduated with a BS/MS in bio from Stanford.) After BITSource was successfully acquired, I moved to L.A.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Companies like Direct TV, X-Box and Orange have incorporated Twitter into new viewing dashboards. Facebook’s head of media and entertainment, Kay Madati, knows a thing or two about television. Other companies that demoed at the conference included SocialShows by NoBox , and iBubblr — a new startup whose originality is suspect.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

The company hopes to prepare advertisers for varying screen sizes. He doesn’t see many digital media VC firms in the space and makes it a point to invest in and work with companies who engage more deeply with content. Companies are steadily positioning themselves by acquiring data across other different industries.

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LATechDigest

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Speakers included Mayor Eric Garcetti , Snapchat influencer Jake Paul (fresh off his 60 Minutes appearance), Loot Crate cofounder Chris Davis (whose company just topped the Inc 5000), and early Snapchat & Riot Games / SF-based investor Peter Lasky. . — LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

We need venture debt, factoring companies and public markets. So what took me $2 million at my first company now takes $20,000. Some companies should raise less money and consider early exits – We had a discussion about whether companies should raise less money and have smaller goals for an exit. We all know that.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

While we entertain startup strategies such as being lean or agile, it’s impossible to ignore that, for example, LA has a culture of entertainment , Nashville that of music , New York, a culture of finance and fashion , and Silicon Valley, indeed, a culture of disruptive innovation. Natural language merchandiser Compare Metrics.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Addison McCaleb – Mediahound , making it easier for you to discover entertainment. Erin Korogosky – Beckon , Performance management for marketing companies. Susan Etlinger – Altimeter , research and consulting company for business disruption. Alex Taub – Social Rank , Twitter metrics and engagement tool.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based Maple Media (maplemedia.io) recently announced a big, $30M funding from Shamrock Capital, to assemble a collection of mobile applications in the utility, productivity, games and entertainment verticals. After I sold my last company, Shift, in May of 2015, I took some time off to look for the next thing to do.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 24, 2010

Record companies evaluated songs based upon a variety of informal means, such as the Old Gray Whistle Test. Gordy’s inspiration for Motown’s unique quality control process was the Lincoln-Mercury assembly line, where he worked prior to becoming an entertainment entrepreneur. Evaluate each of the following metrics on a scale of 1 – 10.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We caught up with Zach James and Rich Raddon , co-founders of MOVIECLIPS, to learn more about the company and also hear about the firm's funding round. A few companies have aggregated all of that free media out there from those marketing materials. Zach James: I'm the Internet side of the company, I guess.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

He gives up the goods and a few tips on what you could do to help market your company. I tried to start my own online t-shirt company not realizing the money and time commitment it would take to be successful. The great thing about FOD is we are a very agile company. We are growing into a media company.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Businesses deal with countless data points, leading to decisions affecting their companies in various ways. Collecting and analyzing the right data can easily find faults and successes lying within the company’s walls. There’s aggregation, so like in the entertainment industry, audience measurement is huge. Plus, sunshine.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

An example from Fullscreen: Optimizing user analytics tracking on a Fullscreen product, only to find out Facebook (which his company uses to broadcast user content) had completely changed their layout. Instead, focus on what metric outputs, more views, more downloads? Sometimes, the challenge comes from optimizing prematurely.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

It is what is commonly referred to as “vanity metrics” as in, “Look at how many more followers I got us! It was built in pilot with BMW, HP and one huge, beloved entertainment company here in LA that I guess was a bit gun shy to include their name in our announcement. End of story. Or Likes – LIKES!

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Dart and Lewis should know, since both have over twenty-five years of experience consulting with dozens of retail and consumer product companies, old and new. Companies that are constantly looking forward, rather than backward, are going to be victorious. Encourage and reward out-of-the-company thinking.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. From this we have seen a commensurate boom in the number of startup companies. But on micro level, over-funding also creates performance problems for specific companies. Some will pay off, others will not.

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