Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Thus entrepreneurs were able to build prototypes and design new products without the traditional huge prototyping cost. They have also become great networking events for meeting other like-minded entrepreneurs. Here are some key positives from an entrepreneur perspective: Shorten the time and cost from idea to prototype.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2012

State of Content is an unrivaled opportunity to connect and collaborate with today’s leading influencers, executives, and entrepreneurs in the new establishment of advertising, marketing & technology. This event will bring together thought leaders to discuss the current state of CONTENT within the ever-evolving digital ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

On why you should be an entrepreneur, “A lot of people do what they have to do. He wanted to create awareness for himself to generate marketing buzz and demand and then get the retail stores to pay wholesales prices for his cds. He created demand. But he was street smart and hustled.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Every entrepreneur knows that good demand generation marketing is the key to growth these days, but very few have the discipline or know-how to measure return in a world of a thousand tools and techniques. Lead-stage content performance. The fuel for any good demand generation program is relevant, buyer-centric content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2014

Thus entrepreneurs began building prototypes and designing new products without the traditional huge investment. Here are some key positives from an entrepreneur perspective: Shorten the time and cost from idea to prototype. Very young entrepreneurs get to “touch and feel” the results, and can experiment to their heart’s content.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

That's when it clicked for me, realizing that for some reason, everything online is on-demand. Every single TV service online, from Hulu, to Netflix, and on requires people to search and find content, and really makes people work. The underlying issue is we don't know what to watch, which makes on-demand a really bad experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2020

Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Reverse due diligence on the investor is a comparable process whereby the entrepreneur seeks to validate the track record, operating style, and motivation of every potential partner.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2013

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. Let your audience help with content creation. entrepreneurs get rich quick startups internet millionaires business'

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2022

If every entrepreneur could predict the future, starting the right new business would be easy. That means that starting soon, our doctors, hospitals, eldercare, hospice and even death care systems are going to face unprecedented demand. Autos for drivers: Waning market demand. Technology won’t solve this one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. Let your audience help with content creation. The best place to learn is by scouting around the Internet today.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum. Theatrical release competes with broadcast and cable television and streaming video on demand. At the same time, the vast majority of distribution of feature motion picture content remains concentrated in a small number of very large corporate entities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

Develop viral content. People are more demanding and have more choices than ever before. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs. entrepreneur startup marketing budget viral marketing business' Seed viral activity. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2013

Startups and entrepreneurs are drowning in the information overload, where the volume of data created is like a new Library of Congress every 15 minutes. While none of us can stop the flow of data and the creation of content that swirls around us, we can control how we structure the moments that arise and our responses. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2016

As a startup advisor and investor, I find that more and more entrepreneurs avoid using the term “profit” in pitching their new venture. Thus I was pleased and a bit surprised to see a new book, “ The Purpose Is Profit ,” by Ed “Skip” McLaughlin, an entrepreneur who has both succeeded and failed in starting multiple businesses.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

While the market isn't short of spritely, innovative entrepreneurs, harsh economic headwinds combined with a pullback in investor spending have made it harder than ever for budding businesses to break through. 2023 hasn't been an easy year to be a startup. Calendly calendar screenshot. Writesonic Library screenshot.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

This morning, Pasadena-based Perfect Market (www.perfectmarket.com) announced a new, $9M round of funding for the firm's technology, which is used to help publishers monetize their content. Julie Schoenfeld: When we talked last, we were focusing primarily on helping publisher monetize their archived content. Congrats on funding.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2009

Television celebrity Brooke Burke and Internet entrepreneur Lisa Rosenblatt said Monday that they have acquired ModernMom.com , an online site focused on mothers, and relaunched the site--powered in part by content from Demand Media, the online media firm headed by Rosenblatt's husband, Richard Rosenblatt. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2011

Just as Batman repeatedly avoids Poison Ivy’s kiss of death, so too must entrepreneurs avoid the Kiss of Death provisions which BDCs attempt to include in their agreements. This ensures that everyone understands the key formulas, and thereby avoids a common point of contention in deals that go awry. Do Not Deploy a Free Pilot.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2021

Startups and entrepreneurs are drowning in the information overload, where the volume of data created is like a new Library of Congress every 15 minutes. While none of us can stop the flow of data and the creation of content that swirls around us, we can control how we structure the moments that arise and our responses.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

We then acquire those videos directly from content owners. We''re taking that content, and publishing it on our licensing platform, which is much like a Getty Images for video. When our Youtube views are driven up, that drives more licensing demand for the video, with other shows interested.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2012

If your business doesn’t connect with your customers, individually and as a community, demanding customers will not only ignore you, but will actively keep other customers away. Engage customers with relevant and valuable content. Funny videos and worthless give-aways won’t make your website go “viral” these days.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Richards--a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in a number of technology companies here, including NTI Group (sold to Blackboard), Internships.com, MP3.com, Essentially, we've taken a portion of our outplacement content, and put it on the front end, and saidthis is complimentary for you. What is CareerArc?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2011

Startups and entrepreneurs are drowning in the information overload, where the volume of data created is like a new Library of Congress every 15 minutes. While none of us can stop the flow of data and the creation of content that swirls around us, we can control how we structure the moments that arise and our responses.

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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2014

The really amazing this, is those deals are all user generated content, from our users finding the best deals on the Internet. The content is really amazing, and leverages the power of social, and applies that towards e-commerce and deals. We''re doing what Reddit does for content, and Google does for search. It''s amazing.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Alex Kazerani and James Segil (shared), EdgeCast Networks (Los Angeles, content delivery network). George Strompolis , Fullscreen (Los Angeles, content). Internap , PricewaterhouseCoopers , Demand Media , Stubbs, Alderton & Markiles LLP , Oracle , Cresa Partners , UK Trade & Investment , PIXT , and many others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2019

If every entrepreneur could predict the future, starting the right new business would be easy. That means that starting soon, our doctors, hospitals, eldercare, hospice and even death care systems are going to face unprecedented demand. Autos for drivers: Waning market demand. Technology won’t solve this one.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In fact, Here's the post in its entirety: We have signed an agreement to be acquired by Amazon and are looking forward to working with them as we continue to build easy-to-use tools for entrepreneurs. But Amazon faces a serious problem: Consumer demand is changing.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2015

Los Angeles-based WhipClip , the mobile television clip sharing app developer led by serial entrepreneur Richard Rosenblatt, said today that it has raised $40M in a Series C funding round. Rosenblatt has been behind many of LA's biggest technology startups, including both MySpace and Demand Media. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Yet in the business plans I see, the marketing content and budget are smaller than ever. Digital quite simply is not for repurposing content that exists in other channels. It’s about re-imagining content to create blockbuster experiences that cannot be attained through any other medium. Don’t repurpose, re-imagine.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

If I'm a woman, I might really be into fashion and beauty, and would be more apt to engage with content and community and engage in the shopping experience around that vertical, versus a horizontal brand across verticals. All those sites will crowdsource content through a passionate and engaged community around lifestyle categories.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2019

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. Let your audience help with content creation. The best place to learn is by scouting around the Internet today.

Technical Review 97

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Reverse due diligence on the investor is a comparable process whereby the entrepreneur seeks to validate the track record, operating style, and motivation of every potential partner.

Technical Review 103

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. Let your audience help with content creation. The best place to learn is by scouting around the Internet today.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

I think many people came it the wrong way, and look at the content in the world created by a studio, which has done the work creating and producing that content, and spending millions and millions on it, and they hope to leverage that and make some incremental revenue. Our job is to help capture some of that demand.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. Post navigation.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Lolita was founder of ModernMom.com, which she sold to Richard Rosenblatt's Demand Media last year, and we caught up with Lolita to learn more about her newest venture. We're doing a lot in social media with Twitter, Facebook, and contributors to our site, and figuring out how they are promoting articles and content through social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

This technology is not only spawning a new generation of entrepreneurs, but is also changing the educational landscape, all the way down to early grade school. In my view as an advisor to new ventures, the Maker Movement is an integral part of a new age of the entrepreneur. Meeting the new consumer demand for customization.

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