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AUGUST 2, 2021

Los Angeles-based Meta Data Software, a company which develops software for managing media and entertainment catalogs and metadata, has been acquired by Rob Delf, the former founder of Rightsline. According to the company, the deal was backed by growth capital from private equity founder Salem Partners.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Since I am a proponent of using equity as a tool and he is so much opposed, this week it is his turn to make the case. They will be more willing to pay a royalty fee if your product gets them to market earlier or is protected by patent to create a barrier to their competition. I have the weeks to follow to make mine.

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JUNE 21, 2017

Burbank-based Cast & Crew Entertainment Services , which provides technology-enabled payroll and production-management services to the entertainment industry, has snagged a PayPal executive to serve as its new Chief Technology Officer. Cast & Crew is backed by private equity investor Silver Lake Partners.

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socalTECH

JULY 26, 2019

Los Angeles-based MarketCast Group , which provides market research and consumer analytics services to the media, entertainment, sports, and lifestyle industries, has named a new CEO, and shifted its current CEO to Chairman. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2016

Burbank-based Cast & Crew Entertainment Services , the provider of technology and payroll, and production management services for the entertainment industry, said on Monday that it has completed its acquisition of Culver City-based CAPS Payroll. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Burbank-based Cast & Crew Entertainment Services , which provides technology and payroll and production management services to the entertainment industry, said it has named Alex Godelman as its new Chief Technology Officer. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 29, 2015

Burbank-based Cast & Crew Entertainment Services , a provider of technology and payroll services to the entertainment industry, said today that it has acquired by private equity investor Silver Lake. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. LLC and Sidley Austin LLP in the deal. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 15, 2017

Los Angeles-based market research provider MarketCast said on Monday that it has acquired Fizziology , a software developer focused on social insights and analytics for the media and entertainment industry. and converts it into data and insights used by motion pictures studios, television networks, production companies, and more.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. Tell me a bit about your background. How did it help you?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

It seems that most of you entrepreneurs I meet in my role as business advisor are convinced that starting a new business requires equity investors, exponential growth, and a plan to go public via IPO. Personal income is related to operations versus equity. With major investors, your equity and return is diluted and delayed.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Last month, the product launched with $1.2 Creators and influencers like Bernstein are forging a path from content creator to full-fledged business, with multiple revenue streams via podcasts, licensing deals, branded merchandise and even software products. “A million Series A led by Puma Private Equity, a U.K.-focused

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DECEMBER 18, 2009

El Segundo-based BridgeCo , a developer of semiconductors for the home entertainment market, announced Friday that it has raised $7.5M Long is at private equity firm Atlantic Bridge, and will join the firm's board as Chairman. in a new round of funding. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

Indi operates an app which lets people get paid for sharing their social content, making product recommendations, and more. The reason for this business, is folks are always going on social media to recommend products to their friends, but they're not making any money from it. We have four different ways people can make money.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Its eponymously titled social media programming, available on Instagram and Snap, has managed to nab roughly 30 million interactions over the year-and-a-half that it distributed its productions. Solve began as a series developed within the mobile-focused entertainment studio, Vertical Networks. ” .

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The startup said it will acquire, manage, and operate mobile applications in the utility, productivity, games and entertainment areas.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2017

Boards are not appointed to be founder-friendly lapdogs for the 1–3 founders who start companies and usually own the largest equity positions in the company. To be clear — most founders I’ve ever worked with have been super ethical, very conscientious, not overly greedy and take their personal responsibilities very seriously.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2012

We caught up with Sam Altman, the firm's founder, to hear more about the company, and how we went from working in private equity to heading up a company all about finding nightlife. Sam Altman: PartyEarth is a global media and entertainment company. How did you make the leap form private equity to nightlight? What is PartyEarth?

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 13, 2018

Launched in conjunction with Kendrick Lamar’s Top Dawg Entertainment , the collaboration between Nike and Lamar marks a series of firsts for the world’s largest sports and lifestyle brand. The combined effort is the first capsule collection that Nike has done with a musician.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

Alon Goren: I am loving all of the ai products out there and use x.ai Robin is killing it, her product could save people's lives, and some of the smartest engineers I know who are working on amazing (super-expensive and complicated) products are having trouble selling.

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Tech.Co

JULY 18, 2016

Several startups have been selected to demo their products for other founders and entrepreneurs. studio and platform for badass female entertainment, its creators and fans. Equity Directory – an invite-only network of entrepreneurs and startup talent exchanging work for equity. And for those L.A.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

We spoke with Chance Barnett , the CEO and founder of Los Angeles-based Crowdfunder (www.crowdfunder.com), to learn more about how to make an equity crowdfunding successful, the importance of celebrity in crowdfunding deals, and more. Chance Barnett: Crowdfunder is an equity crowdfunding platform. Explain to us what Crowdfunder does?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

See how many you have personally experienced already, or are currently mentioned in your business plan: Crowd-sourcing equity. Sites like KickStarter have for years offered rewards and pre-sales for crowd investments, but real equity won’t be legalized until sometime this year for people other than accredited investors. Startup pivot.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service. Sam Rogoway: Near Networks is a national production studio that creates online videos for local businesses across the country.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

and has set up shop here to connect with the local entertainment industry. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Side note: LA seems to have had some success in mega deals led by private equity firms as evidenced by DemandMedia and Chris DeWolf’s latest company backed by more than $20 million in private equity. If you want to hire very experienced product managers there are less of these than I would like.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

WordPress, by way of $15M via North Bridge Growth Equity in WPEngine. One of Austin’s fastest growing companies, product video producer Invodo. eCommerce, as Volusion wraps up $35M with Silicon Valley Bank. Though, I’m glad that I did. Offline engagement platform EyeQ. Natural language merchandiser Compare Metrics.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

We also sold one of our largest sites to a private equity firm in the real estate niche, and narrowed our focus down to FamousBirthdays.com. Instead, we build a very good product, get organic traffic, and those networks pay well. We realized afer 2011 that we were spreading ourselves thin by trying to make five to ten websites great.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

myLINGO is the first product of her company Oladas, Inc., But this feeling sort of dies out when you’re working with the product every day, and talking about your product every day. Entertainment. We decided on LINGO for our product but there was a trademark issue with it so we went with myLINGO.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2015

” She was part of the branding relationships with artists and connected the headphones to athletes during the World Cup who wore them incessantly creating a natural phenomenon unheard of without paying for product placement. Here’s some examples of the headphones and relationships she helped cultivate during her time as CEO.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Interesting that Booyah is led by a former game producer, Keith Lee, who formerly launched very large products for Blizzard Entertainment. Go Boulder!

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

You cannot afford to speed, gun the engine, take detours, or spend your precious cash on a killer stereo to entertain you during your trek. Every dollar your team spends in a non-productive fashion has a direct impact on each employee, irrespective of the stage of your adVenture. However, do not count on it.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

We're the venture capital arm of Saban Capital Group, which is Haim Saban's investment vehicle and private equity firm, which he founded in 2001. Haim's background is in media and the entertainment industry, for several decades. We make Series A and Series B investments in digital media, mobile, and consumer Internet.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

We're the venture capital arm of Saban Capital Group, which is Haim Saban's investment vehicle and private equity firm, which he founded in 2001. Haim's background is in media and the entertainment industry, for several decades. We make Series A and Series B investments in digital media, mobile, and consumer Internet.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Technology and IP law are at the forefront of the movie, and themes include common issues in startups regarding cash flow, IP rights, tech development, product design and distribution of equity. She has specialized in entertainment and Internet law since 1998. reputation rating websites and advising technology startups.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2012

The standard model for an accelerator is, they provide a tranche of equity, along with a suite of services that varies by different accelerator. That's largely a product of the qualify of flow. Then, we went and built a best practices deck of those different models. The amount of capital varies by accelerator.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

While I was there, I was product manager leading efforts to include third party content into the platform. It was a portal, and partnered with ISPs so that those ISPs could generate ad revenue, and create stick entertainment for customers. I headed up product development to build out their portal services.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based Maple Media (maplemedia.io) recently announced a big, $30M funding from Shamrock Capital, to assemble a collection of mobile applications in the utility, productivity, games and entertainment verticals. They're an elite private equity firm, and what's even better is I can literally walk from my house to their office.

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