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6 Information Surges Raise Huge Startup Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. With the adoption of the Internet, digital entertainment has rocketed across the world, changing how people entertain themselves. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment. Data enable: use metrics and measurements.

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8 Strides For Balanced Business Thinking And Delivery

Startup Professionals Musings

Most of the entrepreneurs I meet as an investor and advisor have no shortage of right-brain thinking, showing vision and creativity, but often don’t realize that their potential is being limited by a balancing focus on results, metrics, and customer specifics. They overwhelm and lose their followers, and they tend to run out of money.

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7 Ways For Businesses To Work Less And Enjoy It More

Startup Professionals Musings

As a new business advisor, I hear facts all the time about how hard an entrepreneur is working, but often have a hard time getting them to quantify results. Even you as the entrepreneur, who may not be getting paid at all, are tricked into thinking that if you had more hours, you could get better results.

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6 Technology Trends Will Spawn Countless New Ventures

Startup Professionals Musings

Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. With the adoption of the Internet, digital entertainment has rocketed across the world, changing how people entertain themselves. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment. Data enable: use metrics and measurements.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. This is a novel user interaction that embeds casual entertainment directly into the operating system experience, based on some fairly interesting underlying technology.

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6 Trends Are Driving A Data Tsunami For Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. With the adoption of the Internet, digital entertainment has rocketed across the world, changing how people entertain themselves. YouTube is now the 800-pound gorilla of entertainment. Data enable: use metrics and measurements.

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Stem: Simplifying Payments For Creatives, With Milana Rabkin

socalTECH

I come from the agency business, where we're all about making deals, and the metrics that matter are revenue. However, in starting a company, there are so many other qualitative metrics that matter. In particular, the entertainment industry is not as metrics focused as a startup.

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