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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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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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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).

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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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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. Matthias Galica: The first two verticals which correspond to our use case are in music and entertainment.

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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.”.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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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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.

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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.

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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%

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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.

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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.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Facebook’s head of media and entertainment, Kay Madati, knows a thing or two about television. They all gather different metrics. The numbers really tell the stories of the power of the television twitter combo; there were 155 million Tweets generated during the 2012 Olympics generating 11 billion impressions.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!)

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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.

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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.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

While we entertain startup strategies such as being lean or agile, it’s impossible to ignore that, for example, LA has a culture of entertainment , Nashville that of music , New York, a culture of finance and fashion , and Silicon Valley, indeed, a culture of disruptive innovation. Natural language merchandiser Compare Metrics.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Addison McCaleb – Mediahound , making it easier for you to discover entertainment. Alex Taub – Social Rank , Twitter metrics and engagement tool. Jared Golden – Pear, connecting local community groups to their sponsors. Ricky Johnson – PledgeCents , improving K-12 through community learning.

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

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Defined Success Metrics – Know what you are trying to accomplish and set quantifiable goals. Data Data Data – You should live in data and know all important metrics inside and out. Content is King – Have great content. Without great content you should stop reading right here.

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