Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2022

These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining. Examples include counting members of an advocacy program, app downloads, tenured customers, or subscribers to an e-mail list. Long-term sales.

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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. Music Mastermind.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Patrick Ip: My background is I spent the last three years at Google, working on advertiser retention for small and medium businesses. There, I learned that there is a lot of top level churn from small businesses because Google ads cost too much. Patrick Ip: I was in San Francisco for the last five years at Google.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2014

Google Glass. Google Glass is one of the most famous examples of wearable Tech. Although there are many companies making variations on the product, Google’s seems to be the most advanced and streamlined. Let’s take a look at a few of the most anticipated smart devices changing the way we use technology. Oculus Rift.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Richard coincidentally cites Mike Yavondite’s Qiigo as an example; Mike was a guest on TWIVC later that day. Google Ad Sense was just getting going. What’s your point of view on next generation video entertainment? (34:30 An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. 34:30 – 37:00). 44:00 -49:30).

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

These sites (so far) have managed to balance facilitating product discovery and purchase capabilities with users'' desires to entertain and educate themselves without feeling like they are in a marketplace. Google is great at search, yet their G+ social network wasn’t the most successful. Search Meets Social = Commerce.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 5, 2013

With unrivaled weather, a host of high-profile universities and unlimited array of daytime and nightlife entertainment, Los Angeles seems like a dreamland for young tech professionals and the companies hoping to employ their talents. And for good reason. But it’s not just the pull of outside influences sapping the talent, as many of L.A.’s

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

For example, most e-commerce platforms today offer millions of products, with a changing mix daily and a changing market, such that it’s virtually impossible to manually predict a strategy for mapping customer demographics to products displayed online. No human or paper tracking systems are a competitive alternative.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google. But ultimately we’re on the Internet to communicate, buy stuff, become informed and be entertained.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

We also have live lab sessions, which we run through Google+ Hangouts, which mirror the school education experience. YouTube has a player which works in Google hangouts, so they can instantly screen your work or your pitch, and you can get instant feedback that way. We wanted to replicate that experience online.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2019

These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining. Examples include counting members of an advocacy program, app downloads, tenured customers, or subscribers to an e-mail list. Long-term sales.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator. At Microsoft, I was part of Bing Maps, which is Microsoft''s response to Google Maps. An example of that is the UCLA flood. What drove your interest in this area?

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2015

There's been a huge debate over the future of Adobe's Flash raging over the last month, as both Google and Mozilla disabled Flash due to security holes and other issues. We make websites, and we make banners, primarily for the entertainment industry and Hollywood. Matt Cooper: It was a classic, scratch-your-own-itch product.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. I then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica. After BITSource was successfully acquired, I moved to L.A.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

And while the entertainment industry takes a lot of credit for the awesomeness that is SXSW, tech holds its own when it comes to creating the electric atmosphere of this epic coming-together. Ann Hiatt, Chief-of-Staff to the Chairman at Google. Take a look at who you can see in Austin this year below!

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

One of the biggest issues, is that consumers typically find coupons through a Google search query. They do a Google search, and they''re presented with thousands of sites in the search results. Content is kind, and most people think of that as entertainment, video, or music content. A specific example of that is Vistaprint.

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2015

An example of that is Craig's, which now has Craigs.la. It's not just a real estate or technology or entertainment town, it's all of those, which we can show off with a new namespace. Between 2004 and 2009, things were driven by Google's search engine algorithms. It's a shorter domain, with an LA look, style, and feel.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

Another example in the VR space, is I've worked personally with virtual reality companies, and we have a number of clients in that space, so from an investment standpoint, that�s an obvious place to look at. You've worked on both sides, in both entertainment and traditional media, and technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2016

I’ve heard the new media doubters before as nobody thought Google, Facebook or Twitter would ever make money. And they also are great for sports events (I watch the Eagles pregame videos from fans aggregated in one place, for example). For example, you can replay a snap one time per day for free. Authenticity / Endemic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

According to Gartner's Hype Cycle Special Report for 2014 , wearable user interfaces such as Google Glass are now in this stage. Examples include mobile health monitoring, NFC (near field communication) and virtual-reality systems. Technologies used in these solutions are then seen as red flags by investors.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

For example, to promote Katy Perry’s new film, the agency might buy out all of the images of Katy Perry, as well as the entertainment channel that might not feature the keyword Katy Perry but would display contextually relevant images. Buying Google keywords will be popular and expensive.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 12, 2014

As we recall, this year has kicked off with some fierce acquisitions in the connected home and internet of things (IOT) space, namely with Google’s high profile $3.2 Once inside, Belkin’s Wemo systems control everything from lighting to entertainment, and weMonitor watches over everything’s power consumption.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining. Examples include counting members of an advocacy program, app downloads, tenured customers, or subscribers to an e-mail list. Long-term sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining. Examples include counting members of an advocacy program, app downloads, tenured customers, or subscribers to an e-mail list. Long-term sales.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2013

01% conversion rate again to the people who clicked over to the website from the YouTube video, that’s 185 new customers, 185 people who would have never thought to google search for a tampon service, who will now be signing up to spend the 15 bucks a month to get tampons delivered to their door. If we apply that.01%

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Addison McCaleb – Mediahound , making it easier for you to discover entertainment. Noor Siddiqui – Remedy On Glass , helping doctors collaborate using Google Glass. Jared Golden – Pear, connecting local community groups to their sponsors. Ricky Johnson – PledgeCents , improving K-12 through community learning.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

We are all coming from a background in entertainment. VP: Whether it be the Google Glass or the new smart-watch, it’s still going to be the same thing. Google Glass for example, I don’t think they have concept fully developed right now. But it won’t go away; Google Glass will be back at some point.

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Some examples of those who we have worked very closely with are Ron Garrett, who was the lead engineer on Google AdWords. Another example is Mark Hoebich, a bootstrap founder of a company called TV Tracker, which is a B2B provider in the entertainment market. Those are two examples, we have about a dozen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining. Examples include counting members of an advocacy program, app downloads, tenured customers, or subscribers to an e-mail list. Long-term sales.

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Media Marketing Startup Framework 101

socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2013

What that means, for example, if a patient needs major restorative work, typically the dentist has to submit an insurance claim, then the insurer gets back to the dentist with what they will reimburse, then the dentist has to collect from the patient the remaining amount. What we bring to the party is, number one, new patients.

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socalTECH

MAY 4, 2016

Speaking of insurance, we have also partnered with NEEIS�New Empire Entertainment Insurance Services�and Lloyds of London, to provide $100,000 in third party property damage insurance, so that both parties can have peace of mind if things go awry. If you own a bar, for example, it's probably closed during the day.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Their purchases are limited to restaurants, bars, retail clothing outlets, travel and entertainment. In late April 2010, VentureBeat published that Blippy credit card numbers were published on Google search: [link] followed by Blippy’s response. It was an early example of the power of direct marketing and subscription services.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people. A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. An innovator in technology, especially monetization.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

in fact we still look at many deals in the media sector whose main objective is to entertain people. A good example of this Ag Tech theme is 6SensorLabs a company out of MIT that we’re very excited about and the funding was recently announced. 6SensorLabs.

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Frank Addante

JULY 20, 2012

Great companies like Amazon, Google, and Apple have adopted product-driven structures very successfully. That team’s members likely thought about video, music, entertainment, games, which resulted in the creation of the AppStore. The perfect example of a product-driven organization.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. Interesting that Booyah is led by a former game producer, Keith Lee, who formerly launched very large products for Blizzard Entertainment. I would also note that they claim 2.1 File sharing?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

Robin brings up a compelling example to frame this discussion. The panel describes new hardware dynamics as we move into the next generation of gaming (Google Glass, Oculus Rift v.2). The panel agree that it’s a little bit of both: “Technology pushes how we behave, but human needs remain intact.” On the Horizon.

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