socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. What's the story behind HitFix and where do you fit in the entertainment news landscape? and entertainment as a whole is rapidly changing and growing.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 21, 2021

They want Netflix to address a list of demands in the categories of content investment, employee relations and safety, and harm reduction. But Sarandos doubled down on his defense of the special, writing an internal email that “content on screen doesn’t directly translate to real-world harm.”

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Consistent with the statistics cited in Why Entrepreneurs Hate (Most) MBAs , the large majority of John and Kyle''s classmates accepted positions at investment banks and consulting firms upon graduation. from university professors, to VCs, to entertainers, the bankers, to other entrepreneurs, and that''s what the media picked up on.".

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2018

Nichols is a former Kauffman Fellow and investment director at Intel Capital, and tells us how his fund--which he co-founded with Atom Factory's Troy Carter--is looking to find companies solving large problems outside of the typical Silicon Valley bubble. Talk about Cross Culture, what your investment areas are?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

The chosen candidate will probably have worked for a very reputable firm that is either in technology, consulting, investment banking, media or a startup. Plus, show my you can write! I’m already 2 weeks late in writing this blog post as my partners keep reminding me. I will not consider applicants without a cover letter.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

For those who still don’t know the origins, the Harlem Shake started as a small skit from a YouTuber named Filthy Frank (10 million views as of this writing) on January 30, 2013. As of this writing nearly 50,000 versions have been created and uploaded and watched by some 200,000,000 people. It’s entertainment.

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socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2009

That was the jumping off point for OneCubicle a little over 18 months ago, when we started writing the business plan and code. I'd also been a television producer on many sports and entertainment shows, including NBC and Fox Sports. Gregg Champion: I can tell you my first project in the technology and entertainment world.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2020

It gives us the ability to do what we love, which it to create engagement and content that people find entertaining, informative, and authoritative, and moves an audience, and introduces the right kind of selective sponsors and clients to that engaged audience, in a respectful way. It ends up being good for both. That is amazing.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Consistent with the statistics cited in Why Entrepreneurs Hate (Most) MBAs , the large majority of John and Kyle''s classmates accepted positions at investment banks and consulting firms upon graduation. from university professors, to VCs, to entertainers, the bankers, to other entrepreneurs, and that''s what the media picked up on.".

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We caught up with Steve Seigel , the executive producer and one of the stars of the new startup pitch program Hatched (www.hatchedtv.com), to learn more about those areas, as well as how he ended up going from investment banking, to running a healthcare startup here in LA, to hosting a television pitch show.

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

We're looking to launch our first class in the fall, with five to ten companies, with the TechStars model of a small capital investment, and a seed investment of $6000 per founder. Bruce Brown: I was working in 1985 writing keyboard and mouse drivers for Windows version 1. Bruce, what's your background? more) READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Back to regular writing this week so check back in. Are you thematic in your investing or entrepreneur focused? (11:40-14:15). In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. Highland has been around for 22 years currently investing the 8 th fund which is $400 million. 11:40-14:15).

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 7, 2012

Plus anyone who knows the book industry is well aware that it’s close to impossible to hit an epic pay day from writing a book unless you’re Harry Potter or Twilight. Most auth ors write from a place of passion and a desire to share. To entertain us and/or inform. He completely shifted my perspective.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

Although many are entertaining, most fail to provide entrepreneurs with a sufficient return on their time investment. At the beginning of the index, Guy writes, “I hope Robert Cialdini checks this index.” Like King, his writing style is breezy and engaging. No doubt, he did. Prototype Your Work. Form Friendships.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. I think many recent companies make the mistake of not investing enough in web products, if they invest anything at all. Try writing long reviews of a restaurant. I believe in integrated products.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. IA Ventures – Roger Ehrenberg was doing angel investing before he became a VC.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 1, 2011

Synhergy Marketing originally was a company setup to be a full service marketing company for the entertainment industry – the record label, the webzine, everything you would need as an artist. It’s similar to American Idol , but they judge more on your song writing ability rather than your ability to cover other songs.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The VC industry has different segments in it that have different fund sizes, different investment amounts and different risk / return expectations. A new group of investors have clustered around writing earlier-stage, smaller checks. If you’re an angel you invest your own money and you have nobody to answer to except your spouse.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 15, 2012

Your mentor invested in you, believes in you enough to have put time and energy into you, maybe even introduced you to key players and connections. When I was 19 years old I contacted the then most powerful man in the entertainment industry to be my mentor: Michael Ovitz. If they believe in you, someone else will too. And it worked.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Many people start companies arse backwards.

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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. Traffic Marketplace, Adconian, TheTradeDesk)--what is it that you look for in investing in a startup?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

Here it seems that entrepreneurs are coming out of business school, transitioning from corporate life, or hail from the entertainment industry. Whereas in Silicon Valley, you can have a V.1 When he had the idea for his company, he didn’t write a long business plan or try to raise money to hire an agency to build a website for him.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 8, 2015

This prompted the city to go high tech and invest in 31 giant moonlight towers made of most advanced materials at the time, carbon arc light. I plan to take this tour shortly and I will write an update. Back then, when night fell it was blackest of the black and darkest of the dead of night. Sounds good right?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2008

We spoke with Raph Koster, the firm's CEO and founder, about the site and the new investment round. If you think about virtual worlds right now, there's a lot of hype around kids worlds and entertainment, much like there was a lot of hype around Second Life in the past. At the high end, people can write plug-ins.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 1, 2012

When the group was formed, George’s role was supportive with John and Paul writing and singing most of the group’s hits. Most sophisticated investors agree that the startup team is the single most important variable when evaluating a potential investment opportunity. Innovator’s Solution. Book Verdict.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Addison McCaleb – Mediahound , making it easier for you to discover entertainment. Mike Norman – WeFunder , bringing crowd investing to the world. Jared Golden – Pear, connecting local community groups to their sponsors. Ricky Johnson – PledgeCents , improving K-12 through community learning.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them. These are all creative processes.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Abdul Khan (@ImHungryinLA) - Co-founder, Verso Entertainment. Bruce Sallan (@BruceSallan) - I'm a former showbiz guy who writes a dad's column. Cash Warren (@cash_warren) - producer, entrepreneur, president of Verso Entertainment. Zac Sanford (@zacsanford) - VP Development, Suntaur Entertainment; #scriptchat.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Many people will write the history on why Ring became an enormously successful company and why it became a real-world unicorn in a world when many startups are anointed that merely on paper. The future is a computer vision world, from autonomous vehicles to robotics to security, training, education and entertainment.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2020

Personally I believe that to fund more people of color you need to put check-writing authority in their hands the same way that if you want to see more women funded you need more women GPs. My greatest criticism of our industry is that women and people of color feel the need to leave larger VCs to create their own firms.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

A very big thanks to Alexandra Harris, the founder of FanCause , a company that aims to connect entertainment brands with their fans to raise money. The best proof of a soft circle is whether an angel will email someone else (refer another investor) and start off that email with “I’m investing in…”. Sounds like a noble cause.

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