Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

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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Technology Social Media Startup Entertainment 97

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2019

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. marketing is not zero marketing. Real customers.

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Media Framework Social Media Metrics 95

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 6, 2011

Every aspect of the business of entertainment media and other content providers, and their traditional sources of revenue, are under assault by disruptive business models. Wednesday, January 12, 2011 -- Content World Turned Upside Down: Can Traditional Media Adapt? TCOSC Digital Media Society. Speakers: Richard Berger, Sr. See [link] (more)

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Content Technology Council TCOSC Cloud Computing 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

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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Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 106

socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

For this morning's company profile, we thought we'd connect with ShareSquare (www.getsharesquare.com), a newly funded Los Angeles startup focused on QR barcodes -- 3D barcodes -- focused on musicians and entertainers. market has been different, is that the adoption of mobile internet has not been nearly as prevalent.

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Startup West Hollywood Metrics Entertainment 220

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

With the speed of change and volume of market feedback today, as well as the advances in machine learning, Amazon, Alibaba, and others have proven the value of software driven strategy decisions. The days of manual reservations and receipts are behind us, whether it be with rides, clothing, meals, or entertainment.

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Artificial Inteligence Metrics Commerce Software 84

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

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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Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 55

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

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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Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 99

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

TechZulu gets some questions answered for all you marketing folks out there. Patrick Starzan is the Vice President of Marketing and Business development at Funny or Die. He is a marketing professional with over 8 years of extensive online and social media marketing experience. What’s been your biggest success?

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Sites Marketing Social Media Social Network 61

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

I was running the largest deals in the media and entertainment video area across many different Google products. I also lead our media and entertainment vertical practice. We have our product in the market, and launched our beta in January. The metrics are very solid. We are also seeing really high retention.

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Google Content Startup Venice 233

socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2018

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Scot Lawrie , the President and technical Co-founder of Los Angeles-based Coverfly (www.coverfly.com), and John Rhodes , Coverfly's head of Marketing and Business Development, to learn a bit more about the early stage, bootstrapped startup focused on Hollywood script writers. What is Coverfly?

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Technical Review Hollywood Platform Competition 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2014

The Summit featured panels and roundtable discussions that explored a variety of key topics to the global tech community ranging from digital content, marketing and social growth hacking to data analytics, software and investment trends for early stage companies. Ninja Metrics. Hitesh Chawla, CEO. Silver Push.

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Media Technology Truecar Southern California 84

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Test new things and keep testing in your market for things that work. Measure your agility by putting metrics on change. Look for growth in emerging global market geographies. There will always be markets where the culture, income levels, or the products don’t lend themselves to online.

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Custom Customer Technical Review Summary 52

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. We narrowed it down to key-metrics.

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Content Entertainment Startup Los Angeles 81

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

We need venture debt, factoring companies and public markets. There is no way for people to keep prices down – it’s a competitive market. The only solution as an investor is to sit the market out as Chris Sacca said he’s inclined to do. In public investing you can get in and out even in a bull market.

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Venture Capital Training Startup Entrepreneur 308

socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Cody Simms: Ultimately, our mission is to be the best, global ecosystem for bringing new technology to market. One could argue that in 2010, 2011, and 2012, that growth was in the video and entertainment area. Sometimes entrepreneurs ask if we need certain metrics and traction�you don't. Have you shown progress moving forward.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We caught up with Michele and Dan to better understand why they founded the company, and why this market was such an interest to them. Our online solution combines both scientific methodology, as well as highly produced, entertaining, professional development content around education and awareness of unconscious bias. What is BiasSync?

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Content Training Education Outsource Development 150

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 5, 2014

More Bluetooth-enabled devices are showing up on the market and less wires have to be dealt with. Fitness devices need additional equipment, but FreeWavz can double both as your entertainment system and a fitness tracker. Also, many other health monitoring devices do provide other metrics, but require you to wear all day as well.

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Activity Startup Metrics Entertainment 79

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

Leave it to me to spend 14 hours in Dallas on the very day that three of my favorite industries crush capital… * Social marketing, with $14M through Bessemer Venture Partners and Harrison Metal Capital to Main Street Hub. Natural language merchandiser Compare Metrics. Whole Foods Market. Texas and eTail. RadioShack.

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Technical Review Commerce Yahoo Web 71

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Addison McCaleb – Mediahound , making it easier for you to discover entertainment. Erin Korogosky – Beckon , Performance management for marketing companies. Alex Taub – Social Rank , Twitter metrics and engagement tool. Jared Golden – Pear, connecting local community groups to their sponsors.

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In a short, densley packed timeline, our panel of industry experts discussed the fine line topics of wearables technology, bitcoin, SaaS, cloud, mobile gaming, and social markets. Of course, when you’re talking about enabling/emerging technologies, as Brock Pierce puts it, “Market timing is critical to success.”

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 24, 2010

Startups consistently identify more ideas and opportunities than they have the time or resources to pursue, such as potential partnerships, new products, entering emerging markets, etc. Evaluate each of the following metrics on a scale of 1 – 10. Motown’s methodology for assessing its songs was simple and effective.

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LATechDigest

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Packed house for startup marketing panel at #latechsummit pic.twitter.com/m69V5KEJhr. — LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I was in charge of all product management and marketing for the first year-and-a-half, that was a great learning experience with a very talented team of folks. to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. After BITSource was successfully acquired, I moved to L.A. Details coming soon!)

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Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

We find that there’s all this really specialized software, software as a service, certain platforms, and different places you can do marketing; all of those have their own sets of data. MW: It has to do with the difference between a marketer and a developer. You’re trying to be the middle-man between the marketers and developers?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

What I mean by that, is many times, when marketing departments are releasing a film, they release a few teaser scenes. A few companies have aggregated all of that free media out there from those marketing materials. Our metrics show that when people watch chips, they increase their tendency to want to watch that feature length film.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Instead, focus on what metric outputs, more views, more downloads? With experience in engineering, marketing and product management, she specializes in shipping product at early stage startups. His Product experience spans various industries such as Mortgage Banking, Dating, Online Ecommerce, and Entertainment.

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Product Fandango Design Startup 87