Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

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. He entertains no sense of a static business. For example, even the giant Amazon acquired Whole Foods as a growth entryway into the competitive grocery and food industry.

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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.”. It’s just a matter of time.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Successful entrepreneurs make similarly educated guesses. Innovations generally thrive in a lively environment of collaboration and competition. Film and radio helped Hitler mislead a nation, yet those same technologies have also educated and entertained billions of consumers. 130-years later, scientists discovered X.

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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? How unique are you from them?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

Even technology solutions with a large intuitive value, such as a cure for cancer, need hype for visibility, education, side-effect considerations and to avoid a scam label. Marketing acceptance, especially for new technologies, actually goes through several predictable stages, called the hype cycle , as outlined by Gartner research.

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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. Gamers are very highly educated, knowledgeable, and appreciate being treated well.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2012

" When asked about the competition he feared most, Bill Gates is alleged to have said, "the two guys inventing away in a garage somewhere." The typical startup cannot afford a massive ad campaign to educate users as to its value proposition. " Even if this quote is apocryphal, it remains instructive. . "The

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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. Online education. in fact we still look at many deals in the media sector whose main objective is to entertain people.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

It's an intensely competitive market in developing games for the iPhone and other mobile platforms, with thousands and thousands of titles competing for attention from users. We re-launched it a month ago, with new categories and subcategories, and it became the number one educational title for some time.

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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.

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From the Venture Trenches

MAY 2, 2013

The win is a tremendous endorsement of founders Matt Winston and ErichGrey Litoff’s vision to build an online school that would educate and instruct students in the art of character creation and continue the legacy of the great Stan Winston. SWSCA is a community of more than one million fans, followers and fanatical fantasy creators.

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socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2014

A lot of people think of Los Angeles--rightfully so--as a creative hub, and just equate us with media and entertainment. My hope is that by identifying and putting into place certain partnerships, with the private sector, nonprofits, universities and other educational institutions, we can help advance lots of these initiatives.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

I generally encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to complete their formal education before joining or creating a startup. Despite the relative dominance of product-oriented innovations, they seldom create sustainable competitive advantages. You can read about the variable impact of the various forms of innovation in Fast Followers.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2012

He can also spin fire while balancing on a circus ball and whistlin – but not just any whistling, eric finished in the top 10 at the world’s whistling competition in Louisburg, North Carolina. Lucien’s goal is simple, to completely redesign education. Zak Holdsworth / @zakholdsworth. Lucien Vattel / @GameDesk. 4pm: PLANET.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

There is a really genuine and real opportunity in the intersection of media and entertainment technology here in Los Angeles, and people are focused here on that for a legitimate reason. Although they might have more people in the field up in the Bay Area, there''s more competition for those people.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

The app was mainly to educate people what was going on in the world. The entertainment connection is readily available and getting more clients is a bigger possibility. The competition is not as big as Silicon Valley of course, but LA is going in the right direction. MR: The entertainment industry here is huge obviously.

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From the Venture Trenches

MAY 2, 2013

The win is a tremendous endorsement of founders Matt Winston and ErichGrey Litoff’s vision to build an online school that would educate and instruct students in the art of character creation and continue the legacy of the great Stan Winston. SWSCA is a community of more than one million fans, followers and fanatical fantasy creators.

Education 40

Education Design Startup Entertainment 40

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

There is no way for people to keep prices down – it’s a competitive market. It basically boils down to: educate, entertain, have a dialog, don’t be boring and don’t sit on large panels (doh!). But it also hurts entrepreneurs – Mike asked people about what they were doing to keep prices down.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Interesting that Booyah is led by a former game producer, Keith Lee, who formerly launched very large products for Blizzard Entertainment. Competition: McAfee , Symantec. Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010. It seems to be geared on a “Monopoly” style game. Founded in 2007. Employees: 27.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

The company also educates people about their rights on capture data when interacting with law enforcement. Tapping into a niche community is part of Quirktastic Media’s competitive advantage. WythMe is changing the way people find businesses with discounts and within their budget for entertainment. DatavizVR (Austin, TX).

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

But the end result was incredibly valuable, so looked at that end result and we were able to optimize our campaigns and be more efficient than our competition. There’s aggregation, so like in the entertainment industry, audience measurement is huge. That required lots of developers to integrate it and work with it.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I’m investing in businesses that reinvent education. And while Maker Studios is pure entertainment, TreeHouse is pure education. The goal for today’s business is to educate broad groups of people in the existing workforce to improve their skills, broaden their knowledge and get ahead.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Throughout all of this we saw a tinkerer, a problem solver and a completely obsessed leader who was competitive and wanted to win. But we were sure that Jamie would be maniacally focused on improving the product, marketing the dream to consumers and out-maneuvering the slower-moving competition. We weren’t sure.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Entrepreneurism / Monetization business, education, MBA. . Collaboration Over Competition: Competitors as Business Partners. Entrepreneurism / Monetization community, education, marketing. . In this inspirational and educational interactive hybrid presentation, we will discuss what it takes. Frank Gruber, TECH cocktail.

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