socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2012

As an executive at the National Basketball Association (NBA), Adam Kanner saw those issues--plus the industry's own desire to sell its unsold inventory--so he created ScoreBig (www.scorebig.com), an online marketplace aimed at connecting consumers with awesome deals on below-face value, live entertainment tickets.

Entertainment 219

Entertainment Pricing Ticketmaster Startup 219

socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2013

DAQRI says its customers include Twentieth Century Fox, Matchbox Twenty and SONY, who hae used the company to bring to life a "4D" experience on their DVD covers, books, and more. The company said the funding will go towards its engineering team, sales force, and to develop its platform. DAQRI is headed by Brian Mullins.

Technology 147

Technology Entertainment Equity Los Angeles 147

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2014

The days are gone when a techie or a genius could build things in his garage and customers would find and buy the product, based purely on the “wow factor” of the technology. Thus customers and partners rely more and more on personal engagement with people. Sell yourself as the expert, and business sales will follow.

Customer 99

Customer Custom Startup Content 99

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The way we got started was in the entertainment industry. Here at OIX, what we've done, is purpose built a cloud-based solution that allows customers to find those tax credits and incentives, and incentive discovery database. The first time, I founded a company called Hopscotch, in sports and entertainment.

Startup 100

Startup Venture Capital Southern California Entertainment 100

InfoChachkie

JULY 5, 2012

Coull Entrepreneurs Get More Customers. Fortunately, several startups have devised tools which make it possible for content creators to maintain the entertainment integrity of their videos while embedding relevant calls-to-action. Coull Offers Advertisers Video Skimlinks. <JG <Break here> Skimlinks For The Video Age. .

Customer 133

Customer Custom Entrepreneur Advertising 133

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Both companies were spending big bucks to advertise yet the offer left me cold and I must not be alone in this as both companies have slumping sales. These two ads showed how disconnected from their customers these once industry leaders have become. What IMVU thought was game changing technology was not why customers used the software.

Customer 72

Customer Custom Blogging Startup 72

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Data-enabled shopping has completely changed our purchasing experience, has undermined some of the greatest brand names, and has created some new brands, like Amazon, that now dominate. There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors.

Technology 97

Technology Social Media Startup Entertainment 97

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

We caught up with Dan to hear about how the firm is going beyond online sales, and making shopping online for fashion as much entertainment as e-commerce. Dan Murillo: Little Black Back is what we call an entertainment shopping company. It's loosely based on the Japanese concept of a "lucky bag sale". READ MORE>>.

Commerce 153

Commerce Sites Entertainment Social Network 153

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 15, 2018

It was from their hometown Los Angeles exurb, that Kim and Lee first began plotting how they would turn their experience working for PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young (respectively) into the software business that just managed to rake in $40 million in financing led by one of venture capital’s most-respected firms, Battery Ventures.

Startup 155

Startup Cerritos Los Angeles IBM 155

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Data-enabled shopping has completely changed our purchasing experience, has undermined some of the greatest brand names, and has created some new brands, like Amazon, that now dominate. There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors.

Startup 106

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 106

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Rachel Payne , the CEO and one of the co-founders of FEM, is a veteran of Google, and is taking her experience there and applying it into the video recommendations and engagement area. I was running the largest deals in the media and entertainment video area across many different Google products. One of our customers is Inc.

Google 233

Google Content Startup Venice 233

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Data-enabled shopping has completely changed our purchasing experience, has undermined some of the greatest brand names, and has created some new brands, like Amazon, that now dominate. There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors.

Startup 55

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 55

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

Patrick Kennedy: Our customers are very active using our technology and analytics as a solution to increase the content sales from all kinds of customers. So carriers are a major customer of yours? Patrick Kennedy: We have customers of different kinds. Patrick Kennedy: We have customers of different kinds.

Content 189

Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

Data-enabled shopping has completely changed our purchasing experience, has undermined some of the greatest brand names, and has created some new brands, like Amazon, that now dominate. There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors.

Startup 99

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 99

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

The second part of the story--is the Fliptu team has experience first hand running campaigns for major brands and being part of audience-focused properties. Customers, fans, and buyers can get a brand's essence, their personality, and vibe, in one, visual display. That's where the initial idea for Fliptu came about.

Social Media 268

Social Media Media Social Network Seed Funding 268

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

These sites (so far) have managed to balance facilitating product discovery and purchase capabilities with users'' desires to entertain and educate themselves without feeling like they are in a marketplace. It is no secret that Pinterest and other social commerce sites have begun to dial in the commerce equation.

Entrepreneur 210

Entrepreneur Commerce Sites Social Network 210

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Dave’s industry experience includes tenures as CTO and CEO of several successful software companies, and upper-level management positions in Fortune 100 companies. Prior to co-founding EdgeCast, he was a co-founder, chairman and CEO of KnowledgeBase, a hosted enterprise knowledge management company with many Fortune 1000 customers.

SaaS 92

SaaS Cloud Computing CIO Web 92

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 9, 2012

As Seth Epstein makes clear in this talk , entrepreneurs constantly experience breakdowns, followed by breakthroughs. 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.

Tips 277

Tips Startup Entrepreneur Entertainment 277

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

Kutay: "Starting out today is a much more challenging venture than it was when there were fewer of us and anyone getting into the game could use their unique story and experience fairly easily because there weren’t very many others competing in adventure travel and ecotourism. In 1986, based on our experience it was simply ''authenticity.''

Entrepreneur 187

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Resource 187

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He is also the co-founder of Playsino, ExpressCoin (Bitcoin exchange), GoCoin (Bitcoin payment platform), Five Delta, Evertune, GamesTV, Digital Entertainment Network, KnCMiner.cn (Bitcoin Mining), and Robocoin China (Bitcoin ATM). Mr. Csathy’s career spans Internet, music, motion pictures/video, live entertainment, and technology.

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The days are gone when a techie or a genius could build things in his garage and customers would find and buy the product, based purely on the “wow factor” of the technology. Thus customers and partners rely more and more on personal engagement with people. Sell yourself as the expert, and business sales will follow.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Startup Content Media 111

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

However, a number of them wanted to vicariously experience the startup world through John and Kyle''s venture. But.we''re having a great time and we truly believe that this is an experience of a lifetime. from university professors, to VCs, to entertainers, the bankers, to other entrepreneurs, and that''s what the media picked up on.".

Newsletter 233

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 233

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Learning experience includes: on-demand online video tutorial courses, live video-conference workshops, as well as individual online consultations, live workshops, and group programs. And our network of filmmaker and entertainment industry colleagues allow us to recruit top teachers who are leaders in the web world. What inspired you?

Web 93

Web USC Course Guide 93

socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

Our platform allows clients to run campaigns in front of their customers, wherever it's best to reach those customers. We come from ten years of marekting experience, running marketing for W Hotels. We're hiring senior developers, and we're also focusing on sales operations as well. How did you two start the company?

Social Media 217

Social Media Startup Platform Media 217

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

We also have live lab sessions, which we run through Google+ Hangouts, which mirror the school education experience. We wanted to replicate that experience online. That lets you experience what we're doing, and learn something without having the full experience. She's been working almost exclusively in the digital space.

Web 187

Web Content Startup Education 187

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

20 Year Experience With Top Sports Outfits. O’Neil was senior executive for pre-eminent sports and entertainment brands such as Madison Square Garden (the New York Knicks, New York Rangers and New York Liberty), the Philadelphia Eagles, and the National Basketball Association. Problem Solved.

Ticketmaster 65

Ticketmaster Entertainment Pricing Class 65

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2015

That includes e-commerce retailers, which continue to claim a growing slice of overall retail sales. Last year alone, online holiday sales rose 15% over 2013 figures, including increases of 32% on Thanksgiving, 26% on Black Friday, and 17% on Cyber Monday. travel and entertainment). Earlier this year, eMarketer predicted 13.9%

Commerce 40

Commerce Sales Pricing Study 40

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

Nordstrom sales reps are trained to do this to, but of course they can’t know every customer that walks around the store. I believe that offline / online integration is one of the major computing trends that you will witness over the next 5-10 years as computing experiences truly become pervasive. Or can they? The Future.

Mobile 329

Mobile Advertising Media Marketing 329

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

It literally lets them talk to their customers in a never-before way, on a one-on-one basis. Based on those three inspirations, I wanted to build a company that allows brands and celebrities to speak to their customer in a unique manner. Did those prior entertainment relationships help to get those celebrities to work with you?

Entertainment 159

Entertainment Startup Class Santa Barbara 159

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Paul Ollinger, West Coast Vice President of Sales of Facebook Paul Ollinger is the West Coast Vice President of Sales for Facebook. He has also been a Regional Sales Director and National Account Director for Facebook. He graduated from Rhodes College and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth (MBA).

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 6, 2013

I once worked for the NBA and there are two problems that the live entertainment and sporting industry faces: the number of empty seats and the consistency of raising prices. When an arena is 20-30% empty it creates an impact on people’s experience. One is to give consumers a more affordable way to get tickets to live entertainment.

Startup 79

Startup Pricing Entertainment Sales 79

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The theme for Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood is startups and Hollywood, featuring leaders from movie studios, music labels, agencies, and startups in entertainment – how Hollywood studios are investing and working with startups, and how Silicon Beach startups are making entertainment businesses. ” Collaboration was also key.

Hollywood 100

Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 6, 2013

While I was working for the NBA, I learned there were two problems the live entertainment and sporting industry were facing: the number of empty seats and the consistency of raising prices. When an arena is 20-30% empty it creates an impact on people’s experience. The first problem is the number of empty seats. What is ScoreBig?

Startup 61

Startup Pricing Entertainment Education 61

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

However, a number of them wanted to vicariously experience the startup world through John and Kyle''s venture. But.we''re having a great time and we truly believe that this is an experience of a lifetime. from university professors, to VCs, to entertainers, the bankers, to other entrepreneurs, and that''s what the media picked up on.".

Newsletter 133

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Hautelook was able to help define--and conquer--the online flash sales category, in record time. 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. They still want to compare products, and to have that tactile experience available to them.

Southern California 200

Southern California Startup Customer Custom 200

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 21, 2013

To immerse themselves in the culture where their potential customers are actively involved = YouTube. Nick Tran, Social Media Director for Taco Bell said, “The new entertainment for teens is YouTube. It’s a conference about the community, not as much a business conference. If they are gonna be there we want to be there as well.”.

Conference 99

Conference Hollywood eHow Content 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2011

The days are gone when a techie or a genius could build things in his garage and customers would find and buy the product, based purely on the “wow factor” of the technology. Thus customers and partners rely more and more on personal engagement with people. Sell yourself as the expert, and business sales will follow.

Media 91

Media Startup Company Companies 91