Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Entrepreneurs who have been really transformative, like Steve Jobs and Walt Disney, seemed to know how to deal with all the right elements. Nearly all new businesses aspiring to reach meaningful scale require some sort of outside funding to finance a competitive growth trajectory. Find enough venturesome capital.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 29, 2013

USC’s Marshall School of Business will host the second annual Silicon Beach Awards (SBAs), a $50,000 venture competition focused on innovation in technology & entertainment. We will also recognize the next generation of innovators as we award over $50,000 to participants in the USC Silicon Beach Awards venture competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 8, 2016

They had a new company in mind and they posed a question to me “If Walt Disney were to try and build a movie studio from scratch today — how would he do it?” And they have used influencer marketing on YouTube like nobody else I’ve seen, running authentic competitions with top YouTubers including PewDiePie. I took the bait.

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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.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Entrepreneurs who have been really transformative, like Steve Jobs and Walt Disney, seemed to know how to deal with all the right elements. Nearly all new businesses aspiring to reach meaningful scale require some sort of outside funding to finance a competitive growth trajectory. Find enough venturesome capital.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2014

Gates and Ballmer, Jobs and Wozniak, Walt and Roy Disney, Batman and Robin, Abbott and Costello, Holmes and Watson - the list of famous duos in business and pop culture is long. Founders should encourage a healthy rivalry among each other, while modulating such competition so that it does not escalate into destructive behaviors.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Other installments include: Jeff Bezos , Steve Jobs , Mark Cuban , Richard Branson , Walt Disney , Mark Zuckerberg , Michael Dell and Larry Ellison. Bill’s advice reflects Microsoft’s hardnosed culture, which encourages internal competition and a ruthless pursuit of the truth. Note: This is an installment in the Iconic Advice series.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

Other installments include: Jeff Bezos , Steve Jobs , Richard Branson , Walt Disney and Mark Zuckerberg. Despite the relative dominance of product-oriented innovations, they seldom create sustainable competitive advantages. Other installments include: Jeff Bezos , Steve Jobs , Richard Branson , Walt Disney and Mark Zuckerberg.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

Entrepreneurs who have been really transformative, like Steve Jobs and Walt Disney, seemed to know how to deal with all the right elements. Nearly all new businesses aspiring to reach meaningful scale require some sort of outside funding to finance a competitive growth trajectory. Find enough venturesome capital.

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LATechDigest

JUNE 13, 2016

RECESS Finals Competition Wrapped at CTRL. GIRLS WHO CODE Comes to Disney. Only a few hours away from welcoming @GirlsWhoCode to @Disney for 7 weeks! . — LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) June 6, 2016. Congrats to @recess winners @XperiiApp ! pic.twitter.com/lEBAoLTN1R. LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) June 10, 2016.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2012

Other installments include: Jeff Bezos , Steve Jobs , Richard Branson , Walt Disney and Michael Dell. " When asked about the competition he feared most, Bill Gates is alleged to have said, "the two guys inventing away in a garage somewhere." Note: This is an installment in the Iconic Advice series. 1) Get A Mentor. "I

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Along with Greycroft, I was the first institutional investor in Maker Studios (sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion) and am still the largest investor in Mitu Network , the largest online video producer of Latino content. I believe that the high revenue share YouTube takes encourages platform competition. Startup Lessons'

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2013

Entrepreneurs who have been really transformative, like Steve Jobs and Walt Disney, seemed to know how to deal with all the right elements. Nearly all new businesses aspiring to reach meaningful scale require some sort of outside funding to finance a competitive growth trajectory. Find enough venturesome capital.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2016

Given the stellar startup careers of non-college graduates like Zuckerberg, Ellison, Disney, Gates, Jobs, Branson and Dell, the answer to this question might surprise you. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. Should millennial entrepreneurs go to college? In sports, outliers generate headlines.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2019

It’s time for designing and thinking outside the box, to offer a level of quality and performance customers can’t resist and the competition can’t beat. Now that consumers judge products based on reviews and peer recommendations, rather than advertising, quality if more critical than ever before.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

Founded by James Reinhart out of Harvard Business School (semi finalist in annual business plan competition). Acquired by Disney, who also invested in Playdom, and will become part of the Interactive Media Group. Founder Bart Decrem and COO Andrew Lacy will join Disney as a senior VPs. Watch the show! We covered ‘em all.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2012

Entrepreneurs who have been really transformative, like Steve Jobs and Walt Disney, seemed to know how to deal with all the right elements. Nearly all new businesses aspiring to reach meaningful scale require some sort of outside funding to finance a competitive growth trajectory. Find enough venturesome capital.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We''ve gone out and got content deals with all the major studios, with the exception of Disney and ABC. The second piece, is you asked about Netflix, and we''re really not competitive with Netflix at all. Our strategy has been to offer movies, day and date with DVD, or earlier, if there happens to be a pre-release, digital only window.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. Far from it.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The philosophy of OPEC has been that if they can limit the amount of oil supplied to the world they can maintain high prices in a world where demand and competition should naturally have downward pressure on oil prices. Because they are anti-competitive most countries ban cartels. I would reduce my equity stake much further.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2013

Most of our clients are top publishers, such as EA, Disney Mobile, Rovio, and Backflip. The way we go about that is different than the competition. It''s not just about banner ads, it''s a tool that allows you to integrate with an ad network, giving you the flexibility to pick what ads and offers you want, where in your app.

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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. Do you see a lot of competition from current US services? What is the idea behind Moviepilot?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

I was most recently in corporate development at Walt Disney Internet Group. Then, there are the deals where there are less experienced teams, very complicated competitive environments, and who need a large amount of funding--and that will take more time to get through the process.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

If you thought it was hard to sell your product to the competition try selling your company. Three examples where I know the teams personally, respect them and have heard great feedback are: Steamboat (Disney), Comcast Interactive Capital (CIC) and Intel Capital. See point 5 above. Yeah, I know it happens all the time.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

This advantage is fueled largely by the owners of Hulu, which include Disney, NBC, Fox, and even Time Warner. With upcoming HBO streaming likely, Hulu is more competitive now than ever. However, Hulu – and you – pay a price for these advantages. The biggest problem is the commercials, which are really annoying.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2015

A few innovative companies, including the financial advice company The Motley Fool , are so convinced that collaboration is the key to their competitive advantage that they have added the role of “ chief collaboration officer ,” in the person of Todd Etter.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

We focused on Global 2000, blue-chip customers such as Microsoft, Visa, Disney and Proctor and Gamble. The interesting thing is that we never looked at our competition, we never did any kind of competitive analysis on the products we wanted to be leaders, so we acted like leaders – we focused on our customers, not our competition.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Companies such as Visa, Microsoft, Disney and Proctor and Gamble relied on this infrastructure to facilitate millions of dollars in revenue on a daily basis – so, needless to say, it had to work 100% of the time.

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