Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2019

I’m more convinced that technology merely enables disruption, and changing customer interests and needs really causes it. Other companies keep the focus on their customers, and seem to thrive on disruption, much less survive. They make it their top business priority to understand, anticipate, and gratify customers’ needs.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This enables internal users to swiftly find answers to queries such as "What is our internal IP address?" This nuanced approach can cater to the most specific of viewer moods and preferences, ensuring a seamless entertainment experience. or "How can I modify my direct deposit account?"

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 10, 2013

Excellent customer service isn’t just something that happens from company to consumer. Customer service starts within a company. We all know about Zappos customer culture and their willingness to stay on a call with a customer for up to 10 hours. It’s the same effect you want on your customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2023

Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. Don’t expect investors to line up for your new online gaming site, adult entertainment or quick sources of cash. Every country has their own unique business requirements and customer culture.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

So you tell me what the future of the Internet will be? You need to segment your audience and find a way to get your highest quality customers over to O&O (owned & operated) inventory where you can get higher CPMs, sell merchandise and capture more customer information. And we like to be entertained. They have to.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2019

What is The OIX? The way we got started was in the entertainment industry. What's exciting, it there are multiple-trillions of dollars around the world in terms of the number of tax credit and incentive programs, both with countries offering tax credits and every state in the U.S. WE spoke with Laurence about the startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2017

The average business person fights a customer culture shift, rather than looking for it. What are the lessons that the rest of us need to learn to see and survive these shifts? Be willing to stretch the imagination of your customers. Market to customer emotions as well as absolute logic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. Don’t expect investors to line up for your new online gaming site, adult entertainment or quick sources of cash. Every country has their own unique business requirements and customer culture.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2013

01% conversion rate again to the people who clicked over to the website from the YouTube video, that’s 185 new customers, 185 people who would have never thought to google search for a tampon service, who will now be signing up to spend the 15 bucks a month to get tampons delivered to their door. If we apply that.01%

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

What's your background? Fortunately, the Director of Global Customer Experience at Google, became our first investor, so we could start and figure out the content problem for small and medium businesses. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Social Gaming Network ( SGN ) and Fox Digital Entertainment teamed up for the recent release of a new game called The Book of Life: Sugar Smash. The game is based on Fox Digital Entertainment’s new computer animated film, The Book of Life , and launched for the iOS with an Android and Facebook version in the works.

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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. Can you talk about what Little Black Bag is and the origins of the company? Dan Murillo: Little Black Back is what we call an entertainment shopping company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2021

With real-time online reviews and feedback via the Internet, and instant relationships via social media, a voice from the top that is inconsistent with what is heard from the firing line defines a dysfunctional and noncompetitive company for today’s customer. For team members, the ongoing challenge is figuring out what not to do.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 27, 2012

Make no mistake, successful entertainers are entrepreneurs. They must compete with tens of thousands of other performers who are all pursuing the same customer dollars. Although a handful of performers achieve their goals soon after launching their careers, for most, preparation meeting opportunity is what leads to their success.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 9, 2012

Money allowed Walt to do more of what he loved to do, which was create entertaining content. Discover what you love to do, do it really well and you will have a high likelihood of making plenty of money. Discover what you love to do, do it really well and you will have a high likelihood of making plenty of money.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2014

Explain what Epoxy is and how it works? Juan Bruce: What we are doing at Epoxy, is we develop software tools for online video channels, allowing them to connect with their audiences where they audience connects most, which is social media. What''s your background, why did you start the company?

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2019

What are you doing at the Techstars Space Accelerator? We partnered with the Starburst Accelerator, which has spent several years helping aerospace and defense organization partner with startups at various stages, to create what I consider to be one of the most valuable ecosystems for space tech entrepreneurs in the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Of course, every lifestyle entrepreneur wants their business to be “successful,” but I find that the definition of success and the expectations along the way differs from that usually associated with what I call “growth startups.” If your passion is customers, you definitely will be happier as a lifestyle entrepreneur.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Thus you get what you pay for -- hours worked without any factoring of results and efficiency. The first benefit of this approach is that it forces you to quantify your business objectives at every level, and employees know exactly what is expected of them, rather than just plodding through another day.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 20, 2013

It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. Tell us what their life is like without your product – how they struggle. Show some energy! It’s how I did.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In a world of digital video, whats the best way to distribute and monetize that streaming video content? What is uCast? As you know, today, video is one of the primary means of communications from a personal, corporate, and entertainment level. Thats what uCast is all about. Who are your core customers?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

And that was what had caught my attention. The result is that I, the reader, had no interest in what was being sold in the ad yet I am a consumer in both verticals. These two ads showed how disconnected from their customers these once industry leaders have become. Eric Ries learned to give customers what they want.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2020

What is Stackin'? There are lots of others trying to put content on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Tiktok, which is more about entertainment around social media. What we do, is we take them from social media into a one-to-one relationship, via text, directly to their phone. What's your background?

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 14, 2020

But it also has another component — a recorded “workshop” between a therapist and a patient or a tutorial to illustrate the kinds of services that a patient could receive from therapy or explain what different conditions may be. Scene from a Frame workshop.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Despite the proximity to Hollywood and the entertainment world, in the world of Southern California startups, actually combining the two world is quite difficult. NowLive is trying to do just that, leveraging both technology and the entertainment world to build its business. What is NowLive all about? Who are your customers?

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Maybe it’s time for some… Bulletproof Coffee, Modafinil, nootropics, microdoses of acid, caffeine from coffee, caffeine from bracelets , aromatherapy, noise-canceling headphones, meditation, custom co-working spaces, or productivity apps? What we seek is that elusive, perfect focus or flow state. Gameplay in RaveRunner.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

What's the best way to get the word out about your brand on social media? What is PromoJam? Our platform allows clients to run campaigns in front of their customers, wherever it's best to reach those customers. What plans do you have for that new funding? Before that, we'd bootstrapped everything ourselves.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2014

to hear about how the program is both helping the studio tap into the energy and ideas of the startup community, as well as helping those startups find new customers in the media and entertainment business. For those not familiar with s Warner Media Camp, what is it all about? What''s your big goal for the program?

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InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2016

The reality television show Shark Tank makes for entertaining content but many of its underlying messages are potentially detrimental to tech entrepreneurs. I get that Shark Tank is a TV show focused on entertaining its viewers. Experienced entrepreneurs have no issues parsing where reality stops and entertainment begins.

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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. What approach should they be thinking about as they test out Pinterest, Polyvore, Toplist and similar sites?

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

What is FilmBreak? What usually happens, is there's a barrage of poorly targeted ads leading up to opening weekend, and it drives downhill from there. What's your background? Lots of them were in online media and entertainment. My co-founder, Taylor Mcpartland, is the entertainment guy. It's all about execution.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

What is FEM? What that means for a publisher, is as they add more video ads, the ad inventory can be more fully realized. What''s the story behind the company? I was running the largest deals in the media and entertainment video area across many different Google products. One of our customers is Inc.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2012

In a mobile world, what's a unique way to reach out to your friends and others? One way is to create your own, custom video clip which you can share via email, text message, or through a social networking site like Facebook. What is the SnapCuts service? What kind of clips can people access? What's your team's background?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2008

For those not familiar with BigStage, tell us what the company is doing with your avatar technology? What we've done, is we've taken technology originally developed at USC, a CIA funded project, and gained global commercial rights for the non-security sector. Talk about how this works with TV clips and video?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

What you’ll see if you watch the video is an unscripted and unfiltered look into how Scott Kupor & I see some of the changes and challenges of the venture industry. The only point we didn’t seem totally aligned on was what we happening to the “middle of the VC market.” tl;dr version. And we ended.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

What was the biggest lesson you learned this year? What was the biggest news for your firm in 2018? It was entertaining to be at the (geographical) epicenter of that phenomenon. Finally, what's your prediction on what will be most important thing for the technology industry in the coming year? Happy Holidays!

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

We spoke with Andrew about the startup and what it's all about. What's DinnerDate.com? What's your background? What fascinates me about dating, is, even though it feels like a departure, is it's using the core skills of the Internet and understanding telecommunications. We like to call it enhanced serendipity.

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