socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Anne Walls and John Singleton are co-founders of WordHustler (www.wordhustler.com), a local Hollywood startup looking to help writers connect with publishers. In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. We are trying to keep it competitive.

Writing 209

Writing Hollywood Startup Sites 209

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

and are now one of the largest media outlets for entertainment on the web and Facebook. Do you see a lot of competition from current US services? We're looking at distribution and marketing, which is the core of Hollywood and Southern California's core competencies. We have over 4 million fans on Facebook in the U.S.,

Startup 164

Startup Paramount Netflix Entertainment 164

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

Last year at this time I spoke at VidCon and gave this presentation in which I said YouTube was “the Walmart of Online Video” but I also commented that I felt YouTube was vulnerable to competition because their rev share to MCNs wasn’t high enough to allow MCNs to build a profitable business inside of YouTube.

Invest 291

Invest Content Media Networking 291

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

Despite the relative dominance of product-oriented innovations, they seldom create sustainable competitive advantages. Along with Amazon, Dell was also an early pioneer of web-based customer service. Despite the Hollywood myth, it is easier to succeed in business when you are honest, rather than trying to screw everyone you encounter.

Tips 247

Tips Startup Entrepreneur Santa Barbara 247

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

There is a world filled with professional producers of video content who are extraordinarily talented but lack access to Hollywood. They help find talented film makers globally, enter them into competitions and advance the best of them toward winners that get to produce full-length films. and again here.

Startup 380

Startup Media Content Platform 380

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

I started in media technology, and built a number of companies, which I was able to build out and get the ball rolling, in digital, nonlinear editing and special effects technology in Hollywood. Value is becoming the new thing, and the web gives the ability for people to share value and other sides to discovery value.

Southern California 200

Southern California Startup Customer Custom 200

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Doug Krugman – Web Thrift Store , supporting charities through buying/selling online. Ryan Magnussen – Grail , making content curation on the web even easier. Chris Cox – Invoc , inbound call analytics. Joergen Aaboe – Momentfeed , combining life foot traffic with reduced customer acquisition costs.

Entertainment 99

Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Surprisingly, Hollywood hasnt played a major role in the formation of new companies, which have tended to be in less glamorous though more lucrative areas like lead-generation and service (with obvious exceptions like JibJab and Hulu, a joint venture of Fox and NBC). Okay, thats AdSense. Well, that technology came from an L.A.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

My daily coffee meetings are not surrounded by the Hollywood elite with discussions of scripts, scenes and casting. It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. And of course you have Hollywood. That sets us up nicely for the next phase of the web.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed. Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175