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

MARCH 6, 2018

Stephen Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From , has noted the importance of coffee shops during the Age of Enlightenment as hubs of idea germination. Although most of the members are retired, their former and current occupations include educators, attorneys, a writer and an architect. Why Should Entrepreneurs Care?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

That's the idea behind the technology being developed by Pasadena-based ObEN (www.oben.me), which is led by co-founde rand CEO Nikhil Jain. Third Wave Digital (Allen DeBevoise), Dream Maker Entertainment Ltd. Third Wave Digital (Allen DeBevoise), Dream Maker Entertainment Ltd. Entertainment Co., Where is the product now?

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

These clever ideas often come from unusual sources, including an uneducated carnival operator, an author who dropped out of High School at 15, the owner of a laundry company who ran away from home as a teenager and a restaurateur who left school at the age of 13. Education – When he opened his first casino, gambling was not mainstream.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2013

Southern California is the center of the entertainment industry, which not only includes the world of Hollywood, movies and film, and television, but is also the home of the music industry. The firm's products are an example of what applying technology, and smartphones and tablets, can do for music education.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Our culture grew up on the idea of having our own private car, home, and our things equate to identity and status. The current pandemic has already highlighted new things that can be shared online, including access to healthcare facilities, education resources, and even entertainment venues.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2011

Today's interview is with Los Angeles-based Miso Media , a developer of iPad-based music education software, which uses note detection to help users learn guitar, ukulele, and banjo. It's a diverse group, both entertainment and technology. It's the gamification of music education. How did you find those investors?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Our online solution combines both scientific methodology, as well as highly produced, entertaining, professional development content around education and awareness of unconscious bias. It's education, measurement, analysis, and ongoing mitigation strategy. It's the idea of bringing a modern web experience to this.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

I want to tell them to just start anywhere, but I realize that most have no idea where anywhere is. We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. Learning doesn’t have to be all work.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. When the early teams: angels, lowercase capital & first round capital funded Uber they had no idea it would be one of the most revolutionary ideas of our time. Online education. Far from it. 6SensorLabs.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 27, 2012

Make no mistake, successful entertainers are entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs and entertainers alike must address their fears. Women entrepreneurs need to take a cue from successful women entertainers, who also compete in what is largely a man’s world. Note: This is an installment in the Iconic Advice series. Tweet this quote].

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Tips Startup Entertainment Entrepreneur 204

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2014

This is an interesting twist on dating, how''d you come up with the idea? I go the idea when I was on LinkedIn, and noticed that some of my friends had been actually getting dates through the site. Max Fischer: There definitely is the idea that LinkedIn is a professional networking site. Why LinkedIn?

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Successful entrepreneurs make similarly educated guesses. 3. Innovations Are Networks of Ideas. The collision of small ideas combine to form big ideas. Film and radio helped Hitler mislead a nation, yet those same technologies have also educated and entertained billions of consumers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Most lifestyle business owners are proud to be recognized as leaders in the local business, education, and civic organizations. A lifestyle business assumes that you will be able to put your ideas and skills to use in implementation as the business evolves, while working directly with customers as well as your own team.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 13, 2015

Shelon currently serves as a Managing Partner/Investment Advisor at Turnkey Partners and the Founder/CEO to BizTechIQ™, a hands-on Tech Startup Incubator + Pre/Post – Accelerator for students, entertainers, athletes and professionals.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Appetize is backed by the Guggenheim, the 49ers Family Office, WME SVP of Music Marc Geiger, Roar Entertainment and others; the company recently announced deals with Live Nation and the Sacramento Kings, and is part of the Dodgers Accelerator. For hotels, for cruise ships, for sports and entertainment, and for restaurants.

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2010

Is this meant as a personal tool, or a corporate tool--it looks like you've got a number of entertainment clients adopting your tool? Kieve Huffman: My background, and that of my business partner is digital entertainment and digital media. We'll be going live with our first paying client very soon, with the superstar artist Rihanna.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2018

I want to tell them to just start anywhere, but I realize that most have no idea where anywhere is. We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. Learning doesn’t have to be all work.

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Startup Education Entrepreneur Tool 51

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

You've got a great idea for a web video series, but how do you learn about how to make that happen, to get distribution, and monetize that video? Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. It's a hands-on kind of education.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2017

Don’t trust your conviction that your idea has never been done before. If you do an Internet search with a couple of keywords and find ten or more existing competitors, I recommend that you look for a more unique idea. Just because you love the idea, don’t assume that everyone else will feel the same.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2016

I want to tell them to just start anywhere, but I realize that most have no idea where anywhere is. We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. Learning doesn’t have to be all work.

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Entrepreneur Startup Education Tool 58

socalTECH

MAY 10, 2016

The idea is that we want to simplify complex topics, in a way that is fun, engaging, and entertaining. Where'd the idea for Napkin Finance come from? These Naplins are all very educational and useful, but what's in it for you as a business? What is Napkin Finance about?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

She reminds us that whole ecosystems have been built on seemingly innocuous ideas. So instead, there can be a focus on enabling the public to expand on these baseline ideas. To him, those impliciations are huge as we start to see more technologies built on top of this idea. An audience member brings up education.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2010

Educate – Your primary role on stage is to educate the audience. Tip : It is always a good idea to save time on the panel for audience questions. Entertain – It is also your job to entertain! It spices things up and makes for great entertainment. So it’s fresh on my mind.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 8, 2011

They claim that Mr. Zuckerberg “stole” their idea of creating a social network for the Harvard student community. The related question was: “ What should the Winklevoss twins have done to protect their idea?” Universal thought the key was Oswald (the idea), whereas Disney knew the key was in the execution of the cartoon.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Ever since sound was first introduced into movies, the entertainment business has never really faced a huge change. However, the online presence has shifted the entertainment landscape drastically and is threatening to change the business for better or for worse. TechZulu: Where did the idea of Filmzu start?

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Content Entertainment Startup Los Angeles 81

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 6, 2013

TechZulu: Where did you get the idea to start ScoreBig? While I was working for the NBA, I learned there were two problems the live entertainment and sporting industry were facing: the number of empty seats and the consistency of raising prices. One is to give consumers a more affordable way to get tickets to live entertainment.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2013

The community makes suggestions, recommends speakers, discoveries are made and then ideas ping pong off the team until they blow it up into an awesome evening for all as a gift back to the community. It is important when the presenters come from a complex educational background that the content is curated in a digestable manner.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

There is a really genuine and real opportunity in the intersection of media and entertainment technology here in Los Angeles, and people are focused here on that for a legitimate reason. Do you have any idea of how many investments you want to make a year? What do you see in the technology area that made you want to focus there?

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2018

The minute we honed in that we're payment software for enterprise businesses, for this set of 8-10 industries, starting with sports and entertainment, and now educationwe really started to get saturation and momentum. We were trying to be payment software for all people, at all times, and for all industries.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Education: BIRD frees educators from the constraints of screen-based equipment and allows them to better engage students. Educational digital content can now be controlled from anywhere in the classroom. The multi-user feature gives students the chance to exchange ideas and collaborate with teachers and fellow students.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2014

Offer a story, entertainment, or a compelling idea that you can link convincingly to your brand, rather than trying to sell products or services directly. Use the interactive, goal-based play of online games to engage customers for fun, education, and relationship-building. Try branding yourself, not selling a product.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2011

In talking with Ahmed he mentioned that the core idea had originated from his desire to help teach his younger family members learn the names of different foods in English. Loaded with the idea, Ahmed headed over to Startup Weekend Bay Area in April 2010 and pitched to the crowd. As English was their second language (ESL).

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2014

Education & Tech. Education and Technology were also hot topics at the conference. According to Adam Nordin, Global Head of Education Services and Technology of Barclays Capital, “More and investments are being raised for education technology, it has now finally become mainstream.” Disruptors and Innovators.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Offer a story, entertainment, or a compelling idea that you can link convincingly to your brand, rather than trying to sell products or services directly. Use the interactive, goal-based play of online games to engage customers for fun, education, and relationship-building. Try branding yourself, not selling a product.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Startup Content Media 111

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In the end, 3 startups were awarded prize money for their spectacular business ideas. Consumers do want ads, but they want them to be relevant and entertaining,” Cheng explained. All in all, the event served as a great informational resource and networking opportunity for educators, innovators, entrepreneurs, and students alike.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 6, 2013

TechZulu: Where did you get the idea to start ScoreBig? I once worked for the NBA and there are two problems that the live entertainment and sporting industry faces: the number of empty seats and the consistency of raising prices. One is to give consumers a more affordable way to get tickets to live entertainment.

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