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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

As I argued in this widely read piece, Hollywood content producers who don’t understand and develop technology prowess for the online & mobile media will fail to succeed in the future. I meet way too many Hollywood producers who tell me, “I just signed X, Y, Z talent and we’re putting a bunch of videos on YouTube.

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Startup intoxication!

Berkonomics

Write your own Hollywood script Because it is yours to write alone, there is no Hollywood script more thrilling than the one you create during those first days when everything is so very new.

Startup 156
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Interview with Jan Zands, Phonesheet.com

socalTECH

Traditionally, they hand-write those messages and those message slips become clutter, become lost, and they stay in your office when you're not there. So, instead of writing down a message, they can put it into this really, easy-to-use system. In Hollywood, a lot of people don't return calls.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - First Principles.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. Creative – we’re a place of writers, directors, producers, musicians, costume designers, make-up artists, graphic artists, 3D modelers. An innovator in technology, especially monetization.

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How Focus@Will Uses Music To Help You Concentrate Better

socalTECH

Will Henshall: Focus@will is the first, ever music service which helps with focus and distraction, while writing, reading, and studying. If you think about that, it's entirely logical, because commercial music is designed to be engaging. He was a well known Hollywood music supervisor in a prior life.

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The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA

Jason Nazar

When he had the idea for his company, he didn’t write a long business plan or try to raise money to hire an agency to build a website for him. He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away.

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