Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2021

The Denominator Effect I recently wrote a post about funding for investors to think about having a diversified portfolio , which I called “shots on goal.” In our funds we do about 12 deals / year and see several thousand so the funding rate is somewhere between 0.2–0.5% On Funding?—?The to start their next company.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We caught up with M-GO''s CEO, John Batter , to hear about where M-GO fits into the streaming media market. John Batter: M-GO was formed about two years ago as a joint venture between DreamWorks and Technicolor. As it turns out, as we thought about that, we started looking for partners to help us build a platform.

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JUNE 23, 2016

Plivo’s Zentruck service provides voice and SMS APIs to thousands of businesses worldwide, including the likes of CallHub, Mozilla and Netflix. The post Four Innovative SaaS To Get Excited About appeared first on TechZulu. This could include information on LinkedIn, media sources and more.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

The half- dozen movie giants that have been with us in one form or another since the 1930s, plus huge upstarts like Netflix and Amazon (Prime). Many of the studios have sizable in-house technology development operations, but all acquire technology or technology products from outside their corporate borders. See [link] (more)

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Iroko Patners had , a souring relationship with YouTube, Google Ads Words, Amazon Web Services even though the movie streaming firm had about eight million YouTube streams a month, with a $1 million revenue run-rate in 2011. We currently have around 35,000 songs online by about 200 African artists. How does it work? Why Africa?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

Chris Anderson wrote a really influential book some years ago called “ The Long Tail ” that shaped how many people think about emerging Internet markets. It was especially influential in my mind in thinking about media. Think about music as another example. Put simply: YouTube OWNS the long tail. The Torso.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

With a team full of passion, you can accomplish just about anything. To promote passion, you need to develop a sense of purpose, promote collaboration, and have fun. Netflix, which is known for its creative culture, tells employees to “Say what you think, even if it is controversial. Celebrate ideas. Encourage courage.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Canoo has spent the past year discussing the development of its prototype vehicle with the manufacturer so the company could provide advice on how to design and develop the car. The idea, the company says, is to bring convenience and afforability of a Netflix movie service to the auto industry.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 21, 2019

We believe cloud-based VR is the future, and AmazeVR has developed elegant technology that enables users to create and share interactive content very easily,” said Dong-Su Kim, CEO of LG Technology Ventures, in a statement. “We We see no reason that VR content shouldn’t be compelling enough to support a Netflix model.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

In long-form online video, companies were also broad in nature: Hulu, Netflix, Amazon and Apple TV. In the online world the ecosystem is being fragmented into those that primarily produce content (Mitu, Vice, BuzzFeed) and those who primarily distribute it: YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, Yahoo!, Where will the company develop in the future?

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

Meanwhile, new venture-backed companies like the superstealthy Shadows, SuperPlastic and Toonstar are all developing virtual characters that will launch via social media channels like Snap and Instagram, or on their own platforms. There is something to be said about building a character. “And I don’t see it as zero sum.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

We caught up with Pluto TV's co-founder and Chief Growth Officer, Ilya Pozin , to hear about how the company started, and its path to acquisitionas well as to get some tips on startup success. Ilya also founded Coplex, a startup development studio. We were building it about a year before we launched.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

From the day after we sold the company until today I felt it was important that I not comment too much publicly about online video even though I continued to work actively in the sector and made five more investments. The initial period of the agreement has ended so I wanted to get back to talking about online video. And Vidme.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We have developed a tool that takes scientific, validated methodologies from academia, and use that to assess unconscious bias around race, gender, age, and other personality attributes, in the workplace. Can you talk a bit more about how the content and software work together? Think Dateline, the Discovery Channel, and Netflix.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

And in particular, if you're developing comedy and humor content -- which is a big segment of the content being created--how to do you help people find the content which will resonate with them. Tell us a little bit about your background and the company? It sounds like you're really about the technology, not the content?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2012

Carisa Bianchi, President of TBWA/Chiat/Day , will headline a discussion about the state of content in the new media world – along with other notables including Erik Flannigan, EVP of Digital Media at Viacom Group , George Strompolous, CEO & Founder of Fullscreen , and Margie Gilmore, VP of Online Originals at Disney Interactive.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

Bauckhage talks about the firm's recent funding from DFJ Espirit, T-Venture, Grazia Equity, and others, and how the company has been helping studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Disney and Paramount market their upcoming releases. We started about four or five years ago. What is the idea behind Moviepilot?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

With a team full of passion, you can accomplish just about anything. To promote passion, you need to develop a sense of purpose, promote collaboration, and have fun. Netflix, which is known for its creative culture, tells employees to “Say what you think, even if it is controversial. Celebrate ideas. Encourage courage.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2020

Today's interview is with Ruben Schultz, the co-founder of Swoop (www.swoopapp.com), a new startup which develops software for limousine, party bus, and other transportation providers. What's Swoop all about? Our other co-founder, Pete, was at Microsoft in business development and sales. The company recently announced $3.2M

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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. We don’t hear about the remaining three million apps that are mostly free, and garnering only trivial revenue through advertising.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

How do you go about trying to completely disrupt the entire telecom industry? No fly by night startup -- the company is backed by the founders of Skype -- we talked with COO Stephen Sesar about how FreedomPop can provide free wireless Internet, the firm's expansion plans, and how the company hopes to turn the telecom industry on its head.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

At their annual developer conferences, Google I/O, held last month, and Apple’s WWDC, last week they both announced updates to their development platforms. The reviews API enables developers to respond to customer comments in Google Play, a huge advantage for companies that understand apps are now an extension of their brands.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

We spoke with CEO Darren Marble to learn more about why analytics are important to the modern film-maker, and how the company is helping. If you look at the industry, it's a roughly $100 billion industry, with about 80 percent of the revenue coming from the big six studios, Warner, Paramount, Disney, 20th Century Fox, and so on.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

They did some research, and found that around 88 percent of seats were empty and about 95 percent of seats were empty after opening weekend. They then decided to do something about it. Tell us more about yourself ? Python programmer and iOS developer. I am Sean Wycliffe, I am CEO and co-founder, Dealflicks. 3rd Startup.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When Los Angeles, CA was listed as the fastest-growing tech startup region in 2014, many guesses were raised about the root cause of its success. s other startup advantages include: A long media history: Companies such as Netflix and Buzzfeed are based in L.A. This is how you build expertise and develop talent.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? For those who don't know about EdgeCast, CDN services, who/what kind of clients you serve? James Segil: EdgeCast is the fastest growing CDN in the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Dana Settle & I are hosting a dinner tonight (10/20/10) with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film & digital media. The launch of their new Boxee Box in November and the user acceptance of that will be telling for their future development. We watch it on the iPad.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

This was a really fun episode for me because Mo is informed and knowledgeable on so many topics and being a Boston / NYC VC it gave us so much to talk about relative to just covering California VCs. We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Total raised: $56.3mm.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Think about the tension between media companies and cable operators like last year when Viacom threatened to pull Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, etc. Many of us learned about substitute products in undergrad economics courses. This is an age-old marketplace tension where leverage often determines the value captured.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2016

Today I want to talk briefly about why I believe Snapchat is an important media company. For most who don’t yet use Snapchat frequently I know the economic case feels like a stretch of the imagination because you’re caught up in the original Snapchat and I’m trying to offer a perspective about where the puck may be going.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

With a team full of passion, you can accomplish just about anything. To promote passion, you need to develop a sense of purpose, promote collaboration, and have fun. Netflix, which is known for its creative culture, tells employees to “Say what you think, even if it is controversial. Celebrate ideas. Encourage courage.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I’ve always believed it’s been one of the most important attributes of business success yet something very few business leaders talk about. So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A So no whinging about what a long post this is! Creativity. Strange, I know.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2018

In top current companies, such as Google, Apple, and Netflix, cultural strategies that include greater employee freedom and fostering creativity are the norm. Most startups are created by one or two entrepreneurial founders, with a vision and focus on developing an innovative solution, rather than on developing people.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

When I recently wrote about how excited I was about investing in “ The Digital Living Room ,&# Hulu was only mentioned in the context of how Clicker.com was a much better metaphor for content discovery and search. But Hulu isn’t as good as we’d like it to be because the supply is held back.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2013

With a team full of passion, you can accomplish just about anything. To promote passion, you need to develop a sense of purpose, promote collaboration, and have fun. Netflix, which is known for its creative culture, tells employees to “Say what you think, even if it is controversial. Celebrate ideas. Encourage courage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2012

With a team full of passion, you can accomplish just about anything. To promote passion, you need to develop a sense of purpose, promote collaboration, and have fun. Netflix, which is known for its creative culture, tells employees to “Say what you think, even if it is controversial. Celebrate ideas. Encourage courage.

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