Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 9 million registered developers in 2014. This is a tough one to accomplish, but it has paid off handsomely for the first to win in other categories, such as Amazon Kindle and Netflix.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Utilizing this same core technology, TVSync has developed automatic content recognition (ACR) software that can be accessed in seconds by video and/or audio using the camera and/or mic from a mobile device. And…they have opened up their API for all of you clever developers to create the amazing interactive second screen apps of the future.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

and are now one of the largest media outlets for entertainment on the web and Facebook. In the last four years, we built Moviepilot.de, which is like Yahoo Movies or Netflix on steroids. We try to understand your preferences, like Netflix does with their recommendations, and understand and give you a personalized experience.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

And our software allowed us to offer: tighter pick-up windows, better utilization of “uploader staff” and to launch new products & services that I won’t discuss because they’re in development now. It is Blockbuster video in the dawn of Netflix. Our centralization is their achilles heel.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Once this new service became popular then the media companies could control the rules of distribution & advertising. The philosophy of OPEC has been that if they can limit the amount of oil supplied to the world they can maintain high prices in a world where demand and competition should naturally have downward pressure on oil prices.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

In the media NYC is “hot” right now yet having just spent 6 days in NY I heard many similar stories as I get in LA: not enough VC and hard to get great tech resources. We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Social network app developer and ad network.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I recently invested in a company in the media & entertainment sector (this will be announced in a couple of months) so I’ve been thinking a lot about how the industry works, why the structure has evolved the way it did, why the company I invested in has had so much success and what this all implies for the future. If so, why?

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9 There is a feeling that techies are the new celebrities," says Eric Kuhn, an agent who heads the social-media department at United Talent Agency. Loading… Real Estate. » More. Real Estate. » More.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

Mitu Network is the largest digital media company for Latinos in the US and also targeting Mexico and South America. In long-form online video, companies were also broad in nature: Hulu, Netflix, Amazon and Apple TV. Once you have stronger rate cards on advertising you accrue more money and you can develop or acquire more shows.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

I also hope to lay out a way to develop a healthy degree of skepticism for the more outlandish arguments. I believe this use of cryptocurrency will develop and flourish long after the dust settles from the hype and crash of cryptocurrencies that we’re experiencing in 2017. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat.

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