SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Thursday, November 29, 2012 -- Technology Outlook: A Panel of CIOs Discussing Major Trends, How They're Leveraging New Technologies, and How They're Making their Firms More Competitive Today's IT organizations are experiencing major paradigm shifts. Sr VP Technology - Fox Entertainment Group, 20th Century Fox Colin Schiller ?

Technology 113

Technology CIO AITP Activision 113

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2021

With real-time online reviews and feedback via the Internet, and instant relationships via social media, a voice from the top that is inconsistent with what is heard from the firing line defines a dysfunctional and noncompetitive company for today’s customer. Thus team makeup is the critical success factor.

Class 155

Class Develop Development Startup 155

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. With the adoption of the Internet, digital entertainment has rocketed across the world, changing how people entertain themselves. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment. This gives rise to the personalization and customization that we all want.

Startup 106

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 106

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2023

Of course, every risk level can be mitigated by a good plan that addresses the issue, offers a credible action plan, and will convince you, as well as investors and customers, that what looks like a risk to many is actually a sustainable competitive advantage for your startup. Marginal legality or poor public image. If you want U.S.

Invest 98

Invest Sites Technical Review Social Media 98

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2020

These days, customers as well as team members, need to be able to relate to a higher purpose for your business, such as protecting the environment, or helping the disadvantaged. Be sure to tie changes back to the “why” – customer value, business objectives, and competition. Publicly reward risk taking and new ideas.

Mentor 122

Mentor Ideas Competition Examples 122

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. With the adoption of the Internet, digital entertainment has rocketed across the world, changing how people entertain themselves. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment. This gives rise to the personalization and customization that we all want.

Startup 55

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 55

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. With the adoption of the Internet, digital entertainment has rocketed across the world, changing how people entertain themselves. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment. This gives rise to the personalization and customization that we all want.

Startup 99

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 99

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

For example, most e-commerce platforms today offer millions of products, with a changing mix daily and a changing market, such that it’s virtually impossible to manually predict a strategy for mapping customer demographics to products displayed online. No human or paper tracking systems are a competitive alternative.

Artificial Inteligence 84

Artificial Inteligence Metrics Commerce Software 84

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Of course, every risk level can be mitigated by a good plan that addresses the issue, offers a credible action plan, and will convince you, as well as investors and customers, that what looks like a risk to many is actually a sustainable competitive advantage for your startup. Marginal legality or poor public image. If you want U.S.

Startup 126

Startup Sites Technical Review Social Media 126

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Rather than enhancing the offering you have, develop and offer new products that capitalize on the customers that you already know well. Since these usually require a large investment, and more time, including customer education, they need to be started while your current business is still healthy.

Examples 99

Examples IP Acquisition Social Media 99

socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2008

One problem with other avatar technology, is that in most competitive cases what people are doing is using a standard head model and trying to apply a face to that model. Lots of work has also been done to take what was a face technology, and make it into a representation of a full head--and also to make it a consumer-grade experience.

Entertainment 100

Entertainment Clearstone Venture Capital Media 100

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

These misguided folks mistakenly assume that prospective customers will be less likely to buy from them if they know the relative youth of their startup. Yet, the opposite is often true, as startups often attract early adopter customers who are less concerned about a supplier’s size. The Negro Leagues vs. White Baseball.

Entertainment 100

Entertainment Startup Entrepreneur Customer 100

socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2018

Writers can submit their scripts into these programs, and the dashboards make it convenient to track, and it also allows them to track placement and their scores in these competitions. I've been working in the entertainment industry for a decade, in screenplay development, distribution, and talent management.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Hollywood Platform Competition 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

As you know, today, video is one of the primary means of communications from a personal, corporate, and entertainment level. Those technologies allow us to scale and offer a superior product for customers. Who are your core customers? The audience for video has grown into billions of people around the globe. I have a Ph.D.

Content 113

Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 9, 2012

Money allowed Walt to do more of what he loved to do, which was create entertaining content. You must convince dispassionate, objective customers that your value proposition is worthy of their cash. Entertain Yourself. "We "We are not trying to entertain the critics. ." [Tweet this quote].

Tips 277

Tips Startup Entrepreneur Entertainment 277

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Fortunately, the Director of Global Customer Experience at Google, became our first investor, so we could start and figure out the content problem for small and medium businesses. One of the keys to solving the content problem, is to be able to find an approach to service customers, without dedicating a ton of account management resources.

Help 133

Help IP Content Google 133

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Most entrepreneurs see their new venture as a fun adventure, until the pressures of a cash flow crisis, or a manufacturing quality problem, or a major customer satisfaction problem hits. Here are the top approaches I recommend, and the entrepreneur mindsets that I see in survivors: Evaluate new competitive threats as new opportunities.

Startup 82

Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur Mentor 82

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The second annual USC Silicon Beach event, hosted by the four professional schools at USC, featured a pitch competition and a conference filled with informational panels and interviews. Startup Pitch Competition. I tried to treat it as a learning experience and refined my pitch for this competition.”.

USC 98

USC Cornerstone OnDemand Southern California Netflix 98

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2012

Marketers see it as a better way to target customers, but the current consumer offerings have been slow to deliver. If your B2B contacts are frequenting other non-competitive local businesses, LBS data could point you to more lucrative business partnerships. See who checks into your competition. Branded entertainment.

Services 82

Services Competition Mobile Entertainment 82

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We are so enamored with the demo featuring a carry-on ready broadcast-in-a-backpack, and anyone working internationally will understand all the Customs Carnet issues the Mini solves. TriCaster Mini is competitively priced at $5,995 base model, or with enhanced recording and remote-broadcast friendly embedded monitor for $7,995.

Screening 103

Screening Entertainment Content Platform 103

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2019

With real-time online reviews and feedback via the Internet, and instant relationships via social media, a voice from the top that is inconsistent with what is heard from the firing line defines a dysfunctional and noncompetitive company for today’s customer. Thus team makeup is the critical success factor.

Netflix 77

Netflix Social Media Startup Mentor 77

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

What most entrepreneurs fail to appreciate is that even the most basic marketing takes time, money and creativity, and even the best still may not succeed in winning over competitive approaches or the status quo. Here are the five key phases: Innovation trigger. Every new startup rolling out an innovative solution is the start of a new cycle.

Startup 97

Startup Marketing Entrepreneur Social Network 97

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. Customized content.

Metrics 79

Metrics Platform Content Web 79

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Of course, every risk level can be mitigated by a good plan that addresses the issue, offers a credible action plan, and will convince you, as well as investors and customers, that what looks like a risk to many is actually a sustainable competitive advantage for your startup. Marginal legality or public image. If you want U.S.

Sites 81

Sites Technical Review Social Media Entrepreneur 81

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

This is a new medium through which consumers validate brands, and where brands are in a position to have a direct relationship with the customer. A brand not only has an opportunity to tell a story and can tell it to the customer, it also has an interactive relationship and feedback loop with that customer.

Southern California 200

Southern California Startup Customer Custom 200

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Of course, every risk level can be mitigated by a good plan that addresses the issue, offers a credible action plan, and will convince you, as well as investors and customers, that what looks like a risk to many is actually a sustainable competitive advantage for your startup. Marginal legality or public image. If you want U.S.

Startup 104

Startup Entrepreneur Sites Technical Review 104

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. Elizabeth Amini: My first company was in graphic design, and provide both graphics for the entertainment industry, but also buildling websites for UCLA and all kinds of places around science, astrophysics, and those types of departments. This is my third company.

Study 252

Study Startup Design Tips 252

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

But it's also about operations and customer relationships." Despite the relative dominance of product-oriented innovations, they seldom create sustainable competitive advantages. It devised made-to-order factories that allowed customers, for the first time on a large scale, to individually configure a personal computer.

Tips 247

Tips Startup Entrepreneur Santa Barbara 247

StartUp Beat

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

It’s a competition where entrepreneurs take the stage and proceed to pitch their startup ideas and their visions for the future. Winners of the competition receive a fully-paid trip to London and San Francisco, and pre-arranged meetings with venture capitalists in their respective cities. Disrupt SF ( Sep 18-20).

Conference 40

Conference Startup Artificial Inteligence Competition 40

InfoChachkie

JUNE 6, 2011

Entrepreneurs are encouraged to believe that they must pay top-dollar for the ideal booth location, compelling give-aways, and an imposing booth that will capture the imagination of its potential customers. Your customers will buy from you because your solution economically satisfies their needs. Nurses In T-shirts.

Sales 174

Sales Customer Custom Conference 174

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

Their slideshow presentations addressed a number of questions about their products including target demographics, customer needs, marketing avenues, financial/revenue streams, leading competitors, and etc. Seek out similar academic competitions and programs. Don’t take no for an answer. Find a hero.

Technical Review 82

Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review USC 82

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

In fact, for the past 27-years, he has specialized in bringing exotic travel destinations to those of us who are healthy and active but whose competitive sporting days are long behind us. How has this reality impacted your customer acquisition strategies? Ever fantasized about climbing Mt. but we don''t.

Entrepreneur 187

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Resource 187

socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2009

Jim Belanger: I think that the main reason, is the price-value relationship of entertainment is changing in this economy. There's a younger generation of gamers, in particular, which is taking control of their entertainment experience. What we've design into our stores, is the old retail adage, that the customer comes first.

Doc 100

Doc Startup Entertainment Competition 100

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Our combined experience working in film education and inside the traditional and digital entertainment industry gives us unique insight into building an authentic “film school like” education on the web. Any competition in LA? That’s a complete and powerful experience which has also helped us to grow quickly.

Web 93

Web USC Course Guide 93

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

With real-time online reviews and feedback via the Internet, and instant relationships via social media, a voice from the top that is inconsistent with what is heard from the firing line defines a dysfunctional and noncompetitive company for today’s customer. Thus team makeup is the critical success factor.

Netflix 62

Netflix Social Media Startup Mentor 62

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

Of course, every risk level can be mitigated by a good plan that addresses the issue, offers a credible action plan, and will convince you, as well as investors and customers, that what looks like a risk to many is actually a sustainable competitive advantage for your startup. Marginal legality or public image. If you want U.S.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Sites Technical Review Social Media 101

InfoChachkie

JUNE 6, 2011

Entrepreneurs are encouraged to believe that they must pay top-dollar for the ideal booth location, compelling give-aways, and an imposing booth that will capture the imagination of its potential customers. Your customers will buy from you because your solution economically satisfies their needs. Nurses In T-shirts.

Sales 124

Sales Customer Custom Conference 124