socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2017

Pocketwatch says that it creates, acquires, distributes and curates content for kids age 2-11. The funding was led by Third Wave Digital, and also included Les Moonves (CBS ), Jon Landau (Avatar & Titanic), United Talent Agency (UTA), Robert Downey Jr. Downey Ventures) and Chris Jacquemin (WME).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Wednesday, November 2, 2016 -- Content is King: How to Create and Curate Content That Makes an Impact. RFBC at the Camarillo Public Library. Better content is the key to positioning yourself or your business as an industry leader. Join owner of Pulse Infomatics and Author, Matt Moran, to learn the do’s and don’ts of content marketing.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Culver City-based Jukin Media , which licenses and distributes viral, user-generated content for the TV, web, and other platforms, has inked a new content deal with Japanese MCN UUUM , the two announced this morning. Jukin Media said UUUM sees more than 2 billion monthly view in Japan alone, and was founded by Japanese YouTuber Hikakin.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 24, 2014

For 2 years I interviewed VCs & founders for a show called This Week in VC. I’ve been promising to relaunch a new show for the past 18 months but needed to find somebody to help me with cameras, filming, editing, distribution, etc. If you want to see any back interviews you can click on that link.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 24, 2019

Cann , a Los Angeles-based purveyor of CBD and THC-infused intoxicants, is rolling out its first major distribution through the venture-backed delivery service Eaze as it begins to hit the streets in California. The beverages come with 2 milligram dose of THC and 5milligrams of CBD per can. ”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Traditional video had very high costs of distribution due to limited time slots of broadcast TV (we only had enough spectrum to support 3-4 channels). The number of channels grew with cable & satellite TV but we still have limitations that makes distributing content high. But distribution is now unlimited. Not so fast.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Today’s post is about doing the proper planning so you get the most out of the 2-3 hours that you’ve set. In my nearly 15 years of attending board meetings I can tell you that the distribution of time actually spent on these activities while you’re in person is more like: 1. Provide information / context (15%).

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 18, 2022

This includes a $2 million pre-seed round from 2021. In fact, he notes that consumers see less than 2% of alternative meat products that are currently being developed. The company is also expanding its distribution in foodservice and scored a spot on the retail shelves in certain Whole Foods Market stores beginning later this year.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

When you have limited distribution, the costs of distributing media are so prohibitive that only the largest of media producers (and distributors) are relevant. That couldn’t happen without the advent of lower cost production & distribution. This was how companies who produced media became big before the Internet.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2019

Roughly half of American adults have no legal document that details how their assets should be distributed when they die. On Thursday, the company announced it closed on financing of $2 million—half a million in pre-seed funding and a subsequent $1.5 [ Updated 9:30 a.m.,

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 18, 2020

Here’s how the letter digitally signed by the FDA’s chief science officer, Denise Hinton, describes the Rucative test: To use your product, SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid is first extracted, isolated and purified from oropharyngeal (throat) swab, nasopharyngeal swab, nasal swab, and oral fluid specimens.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Costs of product on YouTube content is literally 99% cheaper than traditional TV and; Distribution of content can now go viral and can predictably distributed via social networks. Over time if you produce compelling content you can package it up and repurpose it to distribute through other channels. You know you want to.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

You have to build a large online tech company that distributes video.” Online technology company that distributes video. So my advice to many is to study online companies that understand how to use technology for audience development, engagement, viral distribution and subscriptions. As a result of 1, 2 & 3 I clicked.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Cheaper devices (Chromebooks and Tablets), better development tools (Unity3d), global distribution platforms (Apple and Google App Stores) and better business models (subscription and freemium) make companies like codeSpark possible. We did it in 2 years for $2M.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Replicated has already sold its toolkit to a number of vendors, including: HashiCorp, CircleCI, Gradle, Snyk, GitPrime, Sysdig, Wickr, SignalSciences and many others and has distributed those applications into 1,500 enterprises, including 50 of the Fortune 100.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 25, 2022

million commercial deliveries (up from 2 million in October 2021) and travelled over 3 million miles globally. It has now made more than 2.5 Westgarth said that on average, its fleet is making 10,000 deliveries per day. Based out of Los Angeles, Starship initially made its name, back in 2017, running pilots with delivery companies in the U.S.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 30, 2012

Thursday, August 2, 2012 -- Future of Film in the Digital Age. In the world of filmmaking, Financing, Promotion and Distribution are the three most common challenges that prevent filmmakers from achieving their creative and professional goals.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

One of the hottest areas in enterprise and cloud software has been the move by the industry to adopt technologies like NoSQL, a way to tap into the distributed nature of the cloud to accelerate distributed applications. It''s a distributed data platform built for scale, and build for accelerated application development.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. Enter the decentralized Internet.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Or you know the other one — the one where Snapchat lost $2 billion in just one quarter. Except that they didn’t actually lose $2 billion in cash. Your profitability will go down for 2 quarters while your growth may increase dramatically in quarters 3–12. Company A lost $2 million in Year 2 while Company B broke even.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

It isn’t open in either its standards or in the way that applications are marketed and distributed. Centralized computing was giving way to smart, distributed devices. Few had considered what happened in a world in which the data was distributed. I will cover this in my post. Social networking is peaking. Sound familiar?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

The digital living room battle will take place over the next 5-10 years, not just the next 1-2. “Over the Top&# video distribution – Apple TV comes out in November and is priced at $99. The MSO’s are today’s distribution platforms and they still have a lot of muscle in the ensuing years.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

The cost of production has been dramatically reduced by cheap, high resolution cameras from RED and Cannon that are widely distributed, and editing tools such as Avid and Final Cut that are available on inexpensive PCs. At io/LA we launched a new 8000 sq/ft co-work and incubator space in Hollywood.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

In the first 2 weeks I even saw a few people on Twitter say, “Is that the real Marc Andreessen?” My advice always follows along the line of: Twitter is part media distribution platform. 2/ Should Tweetstorming be productized into Twitter? Engagement. ” He was writing to people. Many people. Any people.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

As these platforms mature and user behaviors stabilize, startups need to be increasingly careful about playing in these sandboxes where their distribution or technology (often both) is dependent on a third party. In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world this year?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2021

Depending on the availability of staff and needed information, the due diligence process generally takes 2–6 weeks to perform. This will involve an analysis of the company’s distribution channels, advertising, and pricing strategy. Again, if you find problems you can’t fix, be up-front with the investor to avoid a surprise.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999. If you want the whole deck you can find it on SlideShare but I’ve written up a short summary with commentary below.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Newport Beach-based Crave Entertainment , a video game firm owned by Handleman Company, has been acquired by New York-based Fillpoint LLC, a provider of online distribution, fulfillment, and e-commerce services to the video game industry. Financial terms of the acquisition were not annnounced.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Microsoft was one of the first successful high-tech companies to not distribute its profits to shareholders. Bill believed that the cash which Microsoft generated would deliver a higher return to its shareholders if it were reinvested into the company’s operations, rather than distributed in the form of dividends.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

Many VCs will have a distribution curve where they’ll do a small number of early-stage deals (say $1.5–3 In nearly 100% of those cases the founder expresses his or her frustration a year later (and 2 years later and 4 years later). we only raise once every 1–2 years!” I know our last round valuation was too high.” After all?—?we

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2011

2) TestFlight’s clever distribution of free meals garners Steve Jobs’ attention. You can watch my 2-minute discussion with Kevin, below or on YouTube here: [link]. Note: This is the fourth installment of an ongoing Guerilla Marketing series. So that was cool, it really emphasized how we could target ads.”.

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Southern California Edison Blog

MAY 15, 2020

In 2021, the average person will spend an estimated 100 minutes watching online videos each day, a 19 percent increase from 84 minutes per day in 2019 2. Enterprises can distribute pictures and video content from a server located closer to site visitors, reducing load times and strain on the main server while increasing uptime.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

In the era of Skype, web conferencing tools and collaboration software conventional wisdom says that distributed startup teams can be just as effective as those that are in person. Or more precisely the people espousing the benefits of distributed startups teams are often distributed and therefore self rationalizing it.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2010

Are you going to have the “usual&# 90-9-1 distribution, or the more radical 99-1-0.1 distribution common in some social websites? Can you achieve a more equitable distribution of, say, 80-16-4? Casual Contributors – These people are uninterested in achieving status on your website.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

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!, We are now doing 2 billion video views per month and will do tens of millions in revenue this year. AOL and the like. Fast forward 18 months.

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socalTECH

MAY 22, 2009

The firm said its new E Series EX accelerator now supports 10Gbps throughput, and accelerates TCP traffic 2 to 5 times. The firm said it is targeting hosting, SaaS, social network, content distribution networks, and cloud computing companies with the hardware. Pricing on the new product was not released.

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