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.

Content 113

Content TCOSC Technology Council Cloud Computing 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 29, 2010

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. Speakers: Richard Berger, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment; Scott Brovsky, , Disney Interactive Studios; Eric Garland, CEO, Big Champagne; Richard Neff, Neff Law Firm.

Content 100

Content TCOSC Technology Council Cloud Computing 100

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. The metrics are very solid. Rachel Payne: I was working at Google for about eight years, most recently in global strategic alliances.

Google 233

Google Content Startup Venice 233

SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 10, 2009

Private or public, the rules and metrics have gone the way of GM, AIG or the best guess of your Uncle Charlie. Whyte, so that means it will be informative and entertaining. Tuesday, July 14, 2009 -- What the Heck is it Worth? On July 14th we will have an interesting session on finding the current method to value a private company.

LAVA 100

LAVA Metrics Entertainment Companies 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In business vernacular, targets are usually called metrics. A good metric has to be easily measurable, and directly correlated to results, rather than hours worked. For example, for a sales person, this metric number would likely measure new revenue or new customers. Provide incentives to focus everyone on real results.

Metrics 124

Metrics Entrepreneur Satisfaction Study 124

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

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.

Startup 140

Startup Content Metrics Platform 140

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The leaked information in question appears to be some internal metrics on “The Closer” that appeared in a story by Bloomberg , which reported that Netflix spent $24.1 “We understand this employee may have been motivated by disappointment and hurt with Netflix, but maintaining a culture of trust and transparency is core to our company.”.

Netflix 300

Netflix Demand Content Hollywood 300

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2021

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.

Technical Review 133

Technical Review Satisfaction Metrics Startup 133

TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This nuanced approach can cater to the most specific of viewer moods and preferences, ensuring a seamless entertainment experience. Precision and Recall Metrics: Define a process to assess the precision (the relevance of retrieved documents) and the recall (how many of the relevant documents were fetched).

Generative AI 348

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Tool Knowledge Base 348

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

If you do a $1 million angel round at $6 million pre-money and hope to do a Series A round for $2-3 million that’s fine as long as you’re doing awesome against your metric goals and the market continues to be frothy. If either condition doesn’t hold it will be hard to do anything but a flat or down round.

Venture Capital 308

Venture Capital Training Startup Entrepreneur 308

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2013

Squabbler, a video engagement platform for web and mobile publishers has launched new features and the next generation of its video engagement platform in a move that will power engagement for sports, entertainment and news publishers a like. Watch video metrics, track performance. Customized content.

Metrics 79

Metrics Platform Content Web 79

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

These metrics-application rely on our need to know our “value” and will only continue to perpetuate the dilution of online engagement. I don’t have actual metrics, but from a random sampling taken over the past ten months on my own posts reshared by “Klout influencers”, I found the click-through-rate was around.02%

Social Network 106

Social Network Metrics Technical Review Sites 106

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

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. After BITSource was successfully acquired, I moved to L.A. Details coming soon!)

Product 150

Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. They compete on features, price and execution. Everybody is now payment ready.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

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.

Content 81

Content Entertainment Startup Los Angeles 81

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

The days of manual reservations and receipts are behind us, whether it be with rides, clothing, meals, or entertainment. Live data also requires metrics and infrastructure that can interpret and evaluate the data, and smart businesses must develop these in the algorithms they use in their data-intelligence engines.

Artificial Inteligence 84

Artificial Inteligence Metrics Commerce Software 84

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2014

The event also showcased a variety of promising startups from digital media, mobile, cloud, entertainment, advertising, and eCommerce. Ninja Metrics. Presenting companies included: Add This, Cognitive Networks, TrueCar, Trunk Club, Invidi, ID.me, Datacratic, BeyondCORE, ParkMe and many more. “The Hitesh Chawla, CEO. Silver Push.

Media 84

Media Technology Truecar Southern California 84

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Our metrics show that when people watch chips, they increase their tendency to want to watch that feature length film. Rich Raddon: When Zach and I came together, I had been working in LA for fifteen years in entertainment and traditional media. Especially with DVD sales declining, we offer an interesting way to help studios.

Startup 190

Startup Los Angeles Content Hollywood 190

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

He mentions double and triple bottom-lined companies and tells us investors are starting to require metrics to see measurable social and global value. . Until then, we’ll be focused on gimmicky applications and entertainment. Bitcoin and the closure of nefarious exchange site, Silk Road.

Startup 95

Startup Google Education Venture Capital 95

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Our online solution combines both scientific methodology, as well as highly produced, entertaining, professional development content around education and awareness of unconscious bias. Why that it is important, is the metrics associated with this is are how scalable it is. We're basically putting those two pieces together.

Content 150

Content Training Education Outsource Development 150

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 5, 2014

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. FreeWavz wants to be part of (almost) any activity you wish to tackle.

Activity 79

Activity Startup Metrics Entertainment 79

socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2018

I've been working in the entertainment industry for a decade, in screenplay development, distribution, and talent management. I think one metric I've heard, that the Writer's Guild of America's script registry sees around 50,000 screenplay registrations a year. John Rhodes: We took a 30,000 foot view of the industry.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Hollywood Platform Competition 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

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. Cody Simms: Obviously, I live here in LA, and I have been since 2005. I have witnessed first hand the amazing growth of the LA startup ecosystem.

Startup 100

Startup Los Angeles Mentor Class 100

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. A lot of what we've been looking at are the metrics. What's the idea behind Maple Media?

Media 153

Media Mobile Startup Acquisition 153

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Measure your agility by putting metrics on change. Perhaps they need to add a coffee bar, or other entertainment options. People must be measured in performance reviews against industry best practices, rather than previous results in your business. They may be improving every period, but losing the race.

Customer 52

Customer Custom Technical Review Summary 52

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

There’s aggregation, so like in the entertainment industry, audience measurement is huge. That portion we call data aggregation where you are looking at one metric across a lot of different data sources. It’s just exciting to be here and even three years ago it wasn’t like that.

Startup 85

Startup Southern California Mobile Software 85

Frank Addante

MAY 18, 2016

While storytelling may have been formerly relegated to the entertainment industry, it’s gained a special significance in the tech world. Details can come in the form of concrete deliverables, metrics, and results. Since neanderthals created cave paintings, human beings have told stories.

Companies 40

Companies Company Advertising Startup 40

Frank Addante

MAY 18, 2016

While storytelling may have been formerly relegated to the entertainment industry, it’s gained a special significance in the tech world. Details can come in the form of concrete deliverables, metrics, and results. Since neanderthals created cave paintings, human beings have told stories.

Companies 40

Companies Company Advertising Startup 40

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Instead, focus on what metric outputs, more views, more downloads? His Product experience spans various industries such as Mortgage Banking, Dating, Online Ecommerce, and Entertainment. Playing devil’s advocate: Ignore the users. The ultimate user feedback tester: “Would you recommend this to your friend?

Product 87

Product Fandango Design Startup 87

LATechDigest

OCTOBER 26, 2016

More than a couple rooms were standing room only, which clearly illustrates interest in LA’s fast-growing tech ecosystem, which is layering over the numerous verticals which drive LA’s economy, from entertainment and transportation to shipping and manufacturing, to health care, retail, services, and more.

Snapchat 40

Snapchat Lootcrate Riot Games Downey 40

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2022

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.

Startup 126

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 126

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. In the book, Jaffe introduces three new sets of metrics for gauging progress: Medium-term metrics.

Marketing 127

Marketing Framework Social Media Media 127

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.

Startup 106

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 106

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.

Technology 97

Technology Social Media Startup Entertainment 97

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.

Startup 99

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 99

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. In the book, Jaffe introduces three new sets of metrics for gauging progress: Medium-term metrics.

Media 101

Media Marketing Startup Framework 101

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. In the book, Jaffe introduces three new sets of metrics for gauging progress: Medium-term metrics.

Marketing 100

Marketing Social Media Framework Media 100